{"id":211156,"date":"2025-11-20T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=211156"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:01:01","slug":"india-pakistan-rivalry-spreading-to-south-caucasus-region-writes-jamestown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/211156\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Pakistan rivalry spreading to South Caucasus region, writes Jamestown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Armenia is finalizing a $3 billion agreement to purchase eight to twelve Indian-manufactured Su-30MKI multirole fighter jets, with deliveries scheduled between 2027 and 2029, Jamestown<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

As noted, this acquisition aims to counter Azerbaijan’s recent procurement of 40 JF-17 Block III aircraft from Pakistan, effectively extending the India–Pakistan rivalry into the South Caucasus region<\/p>\n

While the deal diversifies Yerevan’s defense partnerships away from Russia, Azerbaijan’s upgraded JF-17s—featuring Chinese and Turkish technology—may still hold a tactical advantage.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armenia is finalizing a $3 billion agreement to purchase eight to twelve Indian-manufactured Su-30MKI multirole fighter jets, with deliveries scheduled between 2027 and 2029, Jamestown writes. As noted, this acquisition aims to counter Azerbaijan’s recent procurement of 40 JF-17 Block III aircraft from Pakistan, effectively extending the India–Pakistan rivalry into the South Caucasus region While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":211141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211157,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211156\/revisions\/211157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}