{"id":434918,"date":"2021-09-09T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=434918"},"modified":"2021-09-09T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:26:56","slug":"looking-at-procuring-350-aircraft-over-the-next-two-decades-iaf-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/looking-at-procuring-350-aircraft-over-the-next-two-decades-iaf-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at procuring 350 aircraft over the next two decades: IAF chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) would procure 350 more aircraft over the next two decades, including a fleet of Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA), said IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, on Wednesday. All efforts, he added, would be made to procure combat aircraft from indigenous sources.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Society of Indian Def\u00adence Manufacturers (SIDM) \u2014 the apex defence and aerospace industry body \u2014 in New Delhi, Bhadauria said, \u201cThe 123 Tejas fighters on order, including 83 improved Mark 1A fighters, will make the core of the aerospace industry in terms of budget and ecosystem.\u201d The Tejas LCA, he added, has redefined military aviation in India. \u201cThe level of automation achieved by the support of the aerospace industry has given the strength to act fast, decide fast and react fast.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force (IAF) would procure 350 more aircraft over the next two decades, including a fleet of Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA), said IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, on Wednesday. All efforts, he added, would be made to procure combat aircraft from indigenous sources. Addressing the Society of Indian Def\u00adence Manufacturers (SIDM) \u2014 the apex defence and aerospace industry body \u2014 in New Delhi, Bhadauria said, \u201cThe 123 Tejas fighters on order, including 83 improved Mark 1A fighters, will make the core of the aerospace industry in terms of budget and ecosystem.\u201d The Tejas LCA, he [&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-434918","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\/434918","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=434918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}