{"id":295217,"date":"2019-10-05T12:50:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T07:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295217"},"modified":"2019-10-05T12:50:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T07:20:56","slug":"indian-air-force-to-get-a-make-in-india-boost-in-its-fifth-gen-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-air-force-to-get-a-make-in-india-boost-in-its-fifth-gen-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Air Force to get a \u2018Make in India\u2019 boost in its fifth-gen jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  Giving a major push to the \u2018Make in India\u2019 initiative, the Indian Air Force said it will not go ahead with its plan to import the fifth generation fighter aircraft and also declared that it will induct the indigenously developed Astra missile system. IAF chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria said, \u201cThere are no plans for a foreign FGFA now or in the foreseeable future.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FGFA for the IAF will be the indigenous Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), for which work has already started.\u201d India and Russia were jointly working on Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft project since 2007. While India continues to be one of the top importers of Defence equipment Indian Air Chief has expressed to overturn this trend. \u201cThe IAF remains committed to indigenous development in consonance with the \u2018Make in India\u2019 initiative,\u201d Bhadauria said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Giving a major push to the \u2018Make in India\u2019 initiative, the Indian Air Force said it will not go ahead with its plan to import the fifth generation fighter aircraft and also declared that it will induct the indigenously developed Astra missile system. IAF chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria said, \u201cThere are no plans for a foreign FGFA now or in the foreseeable future.\u201d \u201cThe FGFA for the IAF will be the indigenous Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), for which work has already started.\u201d India and Russia were jointly working on Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft project since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}