{"id":412738,"date":"2021-04-29T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T05:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=412738"},"modified":"2021-04-29T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:59:09","slug":"tejas-adds-python-5-air-to-air-missile-capability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tejas-adds-python-5-air-to-air-missile-capability\/","title":{"rendered":"Tejas adds Python-5 air to air missile capability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas has added capability of firing Israeli-origin Python-5 air-to-air missile (AAM) after successful tests that concluded on Tuesday, said Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The same set of tests were also aimed to validate the enhanced capability of the already integrated Israeli-origin Derby beyond visual range AAM on Tejas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe test firing at Goa completed a series of missile trials to validate the performance under extremely challenging scenarios. The Derby missile achieved direct hit on a high-speed manoeuvering aerial target and Python missiles also achieved 100 per cent hits, thereby validating their complete capability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas has added capability of firing Israeli-origin Python-5 air-to-air missile (AAM) after successful tests that concluded on Tuesday, said Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Wednesday. The same set of tests were also aimed to validate the enhanced capability of the already integrated Israeli-origin Derby beyond visual range AAM on Tejas. \u201cThe test firing at Goa completed a series of missile trials to validate the performance under extremely challenging scenarios. The Derby missile achieved direct hit on a high-speed manoeuvering aerial target and Python missiles also achieved 100 per cent hits, thereby validating their [&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-412738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412738","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=412738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}