{"id":647981,"date":"2025-09-26T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647981"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:29:18","slug":"defence-ministry-signs-%e2%82%b962370-crore-deal-with-hal-for-97-tejas-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/defence-ministry-signs-%e2%82%b962370-crore-deal-with-hal-for-97-tejas-fighter-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence ministry signs \u20b962,370-crore deal with HAL for 97 Tejas fighter jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defence ministry on Thursday signed a \u20b962,370-crore contract with state-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to buy 97 more Tejas light combat aircraft and associated equipment for the air force, which is facing a severe shortage of fighter jets. <\/p>\n<p>The delivery of these aircraft will commence in 2027-28 and be completed over a period of six years, the ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defence ministry on Thursday signed a \u20b962,370-crore contract with state-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to buy 97 more Tejas light combat aircraft and associated equipment for the air force, which is facing a severe shortage of fighter jets. The delivery of these aircraft will commence in 2027-28 and be completed over a period of six years, the ministry said.<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647981","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=647981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}