{"id":412734,"date":"2021-04-29T10:48:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T05:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=412734"},"modified":"2021-04-29T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:40:23","slug":"fighter-aircraft-tejas-cleared-to-carry-python-5-air-to-air-missile-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fighter-aircraft-tejas-cleared-to-carry-python-5-air-to-air-missile-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter aircraft Tejas cleared to carry Python-5 air-to-air missile: Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tejas, India&#8217;s indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), has been cleared to carry the 5th generation Python-5 air-to-air missile (AAM) as a part of its weapons package which would significantly enhance its combat abilities, the Centre said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken on Tuesday after a series of trials were conducted to validate the performance of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Tejas added the Python-5 AAM in its air-to-air weapons capability on Tuesday, according to a statement issued by the defence ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The trials were aimed to validate the enhanced capability of the already integrated Derby Beyond Visual Range (BVR) AAM on Tejas. The test-firing of the missile was done in Goa on Tuesday which completed missile trials to validate its performance under extremely challenging conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tejas, India&#8217;s indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), has been cleared to carry the 5th generation Python-5 air-to-air missile (AAM) as a part of its weapons package which would significantly enhance its combat abilities, the Centre said on Wednesday. The decision was taken on Tuesday after a series of trials were conducted to validate the performance of the aircraft. Tejas added the Python-5 AAM in its air-to-air weapons capability on Tuesday, according to a statement issued by the defence ministry. The trials were aimed to validate the enhanced capability of the already integrated Derby Beyond Visual Range (BVR) AAM on Tejas. [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412734","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=412734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}