{"id":398678,"date":"2021-02-03T08:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T03:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398678"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T03:30:40","slug":"aero-india-in-the-time-of-covid-no-usual-roar-of-jets-fierce-aerobatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aero-india-in-the-time-of-covid-no-usual-roar-of-jets-fierce-aerobatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Aero India in the time of Covid: No usual roar of jets, fierce aerobatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Bengaluru for Aero India 2021, which his ministry has billed as \u201cAsia\u2019s most prestigious air show\u201d, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday inaugurated a second production line at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) that will boost its capacity to build the Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA). <\/p>\n<p>With HAL currently discharging an order for 20 Tejas Mark 1 fighters and poised to sign a Rs 45,000 crore contract with the Indian Air Force (IAF) to build 83 Tejas Mark 1A fighters, the new production line doubles HAL\u2019s capacity from eight to 16 Tejas fighters each year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHAL\u2019s new LCA facility is an example of how Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) is shaping [up] and HAL deserves the largest indigenous order of 83 LCA Mark IA\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bengaluru for Aero India 2021, which his ministry has billed as \u201cAsia\u2019s most prestigious air show\u201d, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday inaugurated a second production line at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) that will boost its capacity to build the Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA). With HAL currently discharging an order for 20 Tejas Mark 1 fighters and poised to sign a Rs 45,000 crore contract with the Indian Air Force (IAF) to build 83 Tejas Mark 1A fighters, the new production line doubles HAL\u2019s capacity from eight to 16 Tejas fighters each year. \u201cHAL\u2019s new LCA facility is [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398678","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=398678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}