{"id":643774,"date":"2025-08-20T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=643774"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:54:08","slug":"hal-2-0-from-hangars-to-hypersonic-the-making-of-indias-defence-behemoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hal-2-0-from-hangars-to-hypersonic-the-making-of-indias-defence-behemoth\/","title":{"rendered":"HAL 2.0: From hangars to hypersonic, the making of India\u2019s defence behemoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a humid morning in Bengaluru, a sleek Tejas fighter glistens under the hangar lights at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited\u2019s production line. <\/p>\n<p>Just a few feet away, engineers crowd over the fuselage of a Dhruv helicopter, while in another bay, technicians fit gears for a satellite mission.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the Hindustan Aeronautics of old, the public-sector pillar building a line of helicopters and licensed fighters. This is HAL 2.0. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a humid morning in Bengaluru, a sleek Tejas fighter glistens under the hangar lights at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited\u2019s production line. Just a few feet away, engineers crowd over the fuselage of a Dhruv helicopter, while in another bay, technicians fit gears for a satellite mission. This isn\u2019t the Hindustan Aeronautics of old, the public-sector pillar building a line of helicopters and licensed fighters. This is HAL 2.0.<\/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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643774","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=643774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}