{"id":620518,"date":"2023-12-02T09:14:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T03:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=620518"},"modified":"2023-12-02T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T04:25:04","slug":"centre-approves-procurement-of-97-tejas-jets-over-150-prachand-choppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-approves-procurement-of-97-tejas-jets-over-150-prachand-choppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre approves procurement of 97 Tejas jets, over 150 Prachand choppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India on Thursday accorded an initial approval to defence acquisition projects worth Rs 2.23 trillion that included procurement of 97 Tejas light combat aircraft and 156 Prachand combat helicopters in a major move to significantly enhance the combat capabilities of its armed forces amid China&#8217;s increasing military posturing along the contested frontier. <\/p>\n<p>The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, cleared the projects which also included procurement of medium range anti-ship missiles (MRAShM) for the Indian Navy and upgrading 84 Su-30 fighter jets of the Indian Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Thursday accorded an initial approval to defence acquisition projects worth Rs 2.23 trillion that included procurement of 97 Tejas light combat aircraft and 156 Prachand combat helicopters in a major move to significantly enhance the combat capabilities of its armed forces amid China&#8217;s increasing military posturing along the contested frontier. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, cleared the projects which also included procurement of medium range anti-ship missiles (MRAShM) for the Indian Navy and upgrading 84 Su-30 fighter jets of the Indian Air Force.<\/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-620518","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\/620518","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=620518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}