{"id":342776,"date":"2020-03-20T11:58:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T06:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342776"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T07:02:46","slug":"nod-for-procurement-of-tejass-advanced-version-from-hal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nod-for-procurement-of-tejass-advanced-version-from-hal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nod for procurement of Tejas\u2019s advanced version from HAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Wednesday cleared the procurement of 83 indigenously manufactured light combat aircraft Tejas\u2019s advanced version, the defence ministry said, a move that will help in shoring up IAF\u2019s 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\u2019s meeting was the first after the separation of duties between the Department of Defence and Department of Military Affairs headed by Gen Bipin Rawa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the order of 40 Tejas aircraft had been placed with HAL in initial configurations, DAC paved the way for procurement of 83 of the more advanced Mk1A version of the aircraft from HAL by finalising the contractual and other issues,\u201d the ministry said.<\/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\u2019s advanced version, the defence ministry said, a move that will help in shoring up IAF\u2019s 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\u2019s meeting was the first after the separation of duties between the Department of Defence and Department of Military Affairs headed by Gen Bipin Rawa. \u201cWhile the order of 40 Tejas aircraft had been placed with HAL [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342776","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=342776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}