{"id":643938,"date":"2025-08-21T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=643938"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:33:16","slug":"acquisition-of-another-97-tejas-6-aewc-aircraft-gets-ccs-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/acquisition-of-another-97-tejas-6-aewc-aircraft-gets-ccs-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquisition of another 97 Tejas, 6 AEW&amp;C aircraft gets CCS nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New DELHI: India on Tuesday gave the final nod for acquisition of another 97 indigenous Tejas fighter jets and six advanced airborne early-warning and control (AEW&amp;C) aircraft or &#8220;eyes in the sky&#8221;, collectively worth around Rs 85,500 crore, which will be crucial to tackle the collusive and &#8216;fused&#8217; challenge from China-Pakistan in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The PM-led cabinet committee on security (CCS) approved the Rs 66,500 crore deal for 97 &#8220;improved&#8221; Tejas Mark-1A fighters to be produced by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which will add to the 83 such single-engine light combat aircraft already ordered from defence PSU under a Rs 46,898 crore deal inked in Feb 2021, top sources told TOI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New DELHI: India on Tuesday gave the final nod for acquisition of another 97 indigenous Tejas fighter jets and six advanced airborne early-warning and control (AEW&amp;C) aircraft or &#8220;eyes in the sky&#8221;, collectively worth around Rs 85,500 crore, which will be crucial to tackle the collusive and &#8216;fused&#8217; challenge from China-Pakistan in the years ahead. The PM-led cabinet committee on security (CCS) approved the Rs 66,500 crore deal for 97 &#8220;improved&#8221; Tejas Mark-1A fighters to be produced by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which will add to the 83 such single-engine light combat aircraft already ordered from defence PSU under a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643938","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}