{"id":342549,"date":"2020-03-19T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342549"},"modified":"2020-03-19T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T07:20:35","slug":"dac-clears-procurement-of-83-indigenously-manufactured-lca-tejass-advanced-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dac-clears-procurement-of-83-indigenously-manufactured-lca-tejass-advanced-version\/","title":{"rendered":"DAC clears procurement of 83  indigenously manufactured LCA Tejas&#8217;s advanced version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Wednesday cleared the procurement of 83  indigenously manufactured light combat aircraft Tejas&#8217;s advanced version, the Defence Ministry said, a move that will help in shoring up IAF&#8217;s depleting fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The 83 Mk1A aircraft are in addition to the 40 Tejas aircraft whose orders have already been placed with the defence public sector undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The DAC&#8217;s meeting was the first after the separation of duties between Department of Defence (DoD) and Department of Military Affairs (DMA) headed by Gen Bipin Rawat, the chief of defence staff.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the indigenously developed LCA is going to be the &#8220;backbone&#8221; of the Indian Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Wednesday cleared the procurement of 83 indigenously manufactured light combat aircraft Tejas&#8217;s advanced version, the Defence Ministry said, a move that will help in shoring up IAF&#8217;s depleting fleet. The 83 Mk1A aircraft are in addition to the 40 Tejas aircraft whose orders have already been placed with the defence public sector undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. The DAC&#8217;s meeting was the first after the separation of duties between Department of Defence (DoD) and Department of Military Affairs (DMA) headed by Gen Bipin Rawat, the chief of defence staff. The ministry said the indigenously developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342549","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}