{"id":431151,"date":"2021-08-18T08:20:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T02:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431151"},"modified":"2021-08-18T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T02:52:16","slug":"hal-inks-rs-5375-cr-contract-for-supply-of-engines-for-tejas-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hal-inks-rs-5375-cr-contract-for-supply-of-engines-for-tejas-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"HAL inks Rs 5,375-cr contract for supply of engines for Tejas aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an important step that will galvanise India\u2019s largest ever domestic arms deal \u2013 viz. the acquisition of 83 Tejas Mark 1A fighters for Rs 45,696 crore \u2013 Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has ordered 99 engines worth US $716 million (Rs 5,375 crores) for the indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Since it first flew in January 2001, the Tejas LCA has been powered by a single General Electric (GE) F404-IN20 engine. HAL is continuing with that engine for its first 123 fighters. Support services for the engine will also be provided by GE Aviation, USA, as a part of this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an important step that will galvanise India\u2019s largest ever domestic arms deal \u2013 viz. the acquisition of 83 Tejas Mark 1A fighters for Rs 45,696 crore \u2013 Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has ordered 99 engines worth US $716 million (Rs 5,375 crores) for the indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on Tuesday. Since it first flew in January 2001, the Tejas LCA has been powered by a single General Electric (GE) F404-IN20 engine. HAL is continuing with that engine for its first 123 fighters. Support services for the engine will also be provided by [&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-431151","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\/431151","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=431151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}