{"id":37946,"date":"2017-10-22T14:13:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=37946"},"modified":"2021-03-22T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T10:50:18","slug":"pm-takes-test-flight-of-turkish-attack-helicopter-lauds-turkish-defence-production-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2017\/10\/pm-takes-test-flight-of-turkish-attack-helicopter-lauds-turkish-defence-production-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"PM takes test-flight of Turkish attack helicopter; lauds Turkish defence production industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-37946-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PM-1-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PM-1-1.mp4\">http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PM-1-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>ISTANBUL, Oct 22 (APP):In a rare gesture, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Sunday took a test-flight of T-129, Turkish attack helicopter and appreciated it as an \u201cimpressive and good machine.\u201d<br \/>\nTalking to Pakistani and Turkish media after the test-flight, the Prime Minister said Turkish Defence production industry was one of the best in the world and second to none.<br \/>\nHe lauded the Turkish aviation industry as well as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for such achievements in the defence production.<br \/>\nTo a question about Pakistan\u2019s plan of purchasing T-129 helicopters, Prime Minister Abbasi said, \u201cOur army is evaluating the helicopter, and we are negotiating the contract and terms.\u201d<br \/>\nEarlier, he inspected the helicopter, where he was briefed by the Turkish aviation officials about the specifications and technical parameters of the combat chopper.<br \/>\nPresident and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Turkish Aerospace Industries, Temel KOTIL told APP that T-129 was a light weight attack helicopter equipped with missiles and guns. \u201cIt is small and effective,\u201d he observed.<br \/>\nHe said Pakistan and Turkey have strong defence ties and were collaborating in the defence production area as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>APP\/Zaheer\/ VNS, Turkey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL, Oct 22 (APP):In a rare gesture, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Sunday took a test-flight of T-129, Turkish attack helicopter and appreciated it as an \u201cimpressive and good machine.\u201d Talking to Pakistani and Turkish media after the test-flight, the Prime Minister said Turkish Defence production industry was one of the best in the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["http:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PM-1-1.mp4"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2-99-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37949,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37946\/revisions\/37949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}