{"id":4897,"date":"2017-03-12T18:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T18:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2017-03-12T18:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T18:12:55","slug":"pakistan-inducts-advanced-chinese-missile-defence-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/pakistan-inducts-advanced-chinese-missile-defence-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan inducts advanced Chinese missile defence system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LY-80 is a Chinese mobile Air Defence system, capable of tracking and destroying variety of aerial targets at longer ranges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan Army has inducted Chinese-built Low to Medium Altitude Air Defence System (LOMADS) LY-80 in its air defence system, according to a statement issued by Pakistan military\u2019s media wing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan&#8217;s\u00a0Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, was the chief guest at the ceremony, held at the Army Auditorium in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LY-80 \u201cincreases our response capability to current and emerging air defence threats\u201d the statement quoted the COAS as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bajwa was accompanied by Lieutenant General Muhammad Zahid Latif Mirza, Commander of Army Air Defence Command.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The induction of the Chinese air defence is manifestation of the growing defence and strategic relationship between Pakistan and China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LY-80 is a Chinese mobile Air Defence system, capable of tracking and destroying a variety of aerial targets at longer ranges, flying at low and medium altitudes. It cannot only track but also destroy a variety of aerial targets at longer ranges flying at low and medium altitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LY-80 is a Chinese mobile Air Defence system, capable of tracking and destroying variety of aerial targets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[137,45,6,31,8,113],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-defense","tag-missile","tag-pakistan","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LY80-china-defence-system.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1gZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}