{"id":395339,"date":"2021-01-14T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395339"},"modified":"2021-01-14T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T07:23:12","slug":"cabinet-nod-to-rs-48000-crore-deal-for-83-lca-light-combat-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cabinet-nod-to-rs-48000-crore-deal-for-83-lca-light-combat-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet nod to Rs 48,000-crore deal for 83 LCA (light combat aircraft)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cabinet committee on security headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday cleared a Rs 48,000-crore deal for 83 LCA (light combat aircraft) from defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd for the Indian Air Force in the biggest-ever deal in the indigenous military aviation sector.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the decision on Twitter, defence minister Rajnath Singh said the LCA-Tejas was going to be the backbone of the IAF fighter fleet in years to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis deal will be a game changer for self-reliance in the Indian defence manufacturing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLCA-Tejas incorporates a large number of new technologies many of which were never attempted in India,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cabinet committee on security headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday cleared a Rs 48,000-crore deal for 83 LCA (light combat aircraft) from defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd for the Indian Air Force in the biggest-ever deal in the indigenous military aviation sector. Announcing the decision on Twitter, defence minister Rajnath Singh said the LCA-Tejas was going to be the backbone of the IAF fighter fleet in years to come. \u201cThis deal will be a game changer for self-reliance in the Indian defence manufacturing,\u201d he added. \u201cLCA-Tejas incorporates a large number of new technologies many of which were [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395339","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=395339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}