{"id":1470,"date":"2026-01-14T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/india-approves-boeing-767-tankers-to-fill-long-standing-refueling-capability-gap\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:59:57","slug":"india-approves-boeing-767-tankers-to-fill-long-standing-refueling-capability-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/india-approves-boeing-767-tankers-to-fill-long-standing-refueling-capability-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"India Approves Boeing 767 Tankers to Fill Long-Standing Refueling Capability Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/India-Tanker-Refueling-1-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"India Boeing 767 Tankers\" \/>Six pre-owned B-767s will be converted by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) into aerial refuellers, as the IAF\u2019s older Russian Il-78MKIs experience availability issues. The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has granted an Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for acquiring six Boeing B-767 airliners to be converted into aerial refuellers by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), reports on [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six pre-owned B-767s will be converted by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) into aerial refuellers, as the IAF\u2019s older Russian Il-78MKIs experience availability issues. The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has granted an Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for acquiring six Boeing B-767 airliners to be converted into aerial refuellers by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), reports on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}