{"id":353780,"date":"2020-05-28T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T05:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=353780"},"modified":"2020-05-28T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T05:27:36","slug":"hals-light-combat-aircraft-tejas-joins-iaf-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hals-light-combat-aircraft-tejas-joins-iaf-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"HAL\u2019s light combat aircraft Tejas joins IAF stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAL-produced final operational clearance (FOC) standard LCA Tejas has been inducted into IAF Squadron \u2018The Flying Bullets\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>The fighter aircraft was inducted at a function at Sulur (Tamil Nadu) on Wednesday, marking another milestone for HAL. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to deliver a much lethal aircraft than the IOC block. Apart from all the capabilities of IOC aircraft, the FOC variant additionally comes with air-to-air refuelling capability, close combat gun, additional drop tanks, BVR missile capability, updated avionics and flight control software suite,\u201d said R Madhavan, CMD, HAL. <\/p>\n<p>The FOC variant will reduce the maintenance man hours and turn-around time resulting in enhanced support for IAF missions. Four more FOC-LCAs are in the advanced stages of production and testing and expected to join the Squadron soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAL-produced final operational clearance (FOC) standard LCA Tejas has been inducted into IAF Squadron \u2018The Flying Bullets\u2019. The fighter aircraft was inducted at a function at Sulur (Tamil Nadu) on Wednesday, marking another milestone for HAL. \u201cWe are proud to deliver a much lethal aircraft than the IOC block. Apart from all the capabilities of IOC aircraft, the FOC variant additionally comes with air-to-air refuelling capability, close combat gun, additional drop tanks, BVR missile capability, updated avionics and flight control software suite,\u201d said R Madhavan, CMD, HAL. The FOC variant will reduce the maintenance man hours and turn-around time resulting [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353780","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=353780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}