{"id":522085,"date":"2022-09-15T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=522085"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T06:00:08","slug":"bengaluru-mig-29k-aircraft-upgraded-by-hal-undergoing-flight-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-mig-29k-aircraft-upgraded-by-hal-undergoing-flight-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: MiG-29K aircraft upgraded by HAL undergoing flight trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy\u2019s MiG-29K aircraft upgraded by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) with indigenous mission computers and air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons are undergoing flight trials, an official said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The HAL\u2019s Aircraft Upgrade Research &amp; Design Centre launched the upgrade programme in 2021 to enhance the aircraft\u2019s lethality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiG-29K, which is directly procured by the Navy from RAC-MiG, Russia, is equipped with weapons of Russian origin. It cannot be operated with non-Russian-origin weapons without extensive modifications. Integration of indigenous weapons or western-origin weapons on Mig-29K is extremely challenging\u2026 In the light of these considerations, the Navy approached us for the upgrade,\u201d a senior HAL official associated with the project said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy\u2019s MiG-29K aircraft upgraded by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) with indigenous mission computers and air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons are undergoing flight trials, an official said Wednesday. The HAL\u2019s Aircraft Upgrade Research &amp; Design Centre launched the upgrade programme in 2021 to enhance the aircraft\u2019s lethality. \u201cMiG-29K, which is directly procured by the Navy from RAC-MiG, Russia, is equipped with weapons of Russian origin. It cannot be operated with non-Russian-origin weapons without extensive modifications. Integration of indigenous weapons or western-origin weapons on Mig-29K is extremely challenging\u2026 In the light of these considerations, the Navy approached us for the upgrade,\u201d [&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-522085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522085","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=522085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}