{"id":31,"date":"2011-02-09T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=31"},"modified":"2011-02-09T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:15:13","slug":"tejas-to-be-inducted-into-iaf-by-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Tejas to be inducted into IAF by next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: The indigenous Light Combat Aircraft &#8216;Tejas&#8217; will be inducted into the Indian Air Force by 2012 and its advanced version will be ready for operational service by the end of 2015.<br \/>\n&#8220;LCA Tejas Mk-I would be ready for induction by 2012. The LCA Mk-II would take another three years and would be inducted by 2015,&#8221; Defence Minister A K Antony told reporters here today.<br \/>\nLast month, the Tejas had moved a step closer to its induction after it was granted the Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) by the Indian Air Force.<br \/>\nAsked about the possible induction date of the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA), Antony said, &#8220;All the difficulties related to the aircraft were over and the preliminary design Contract has also been signed. We hope it will be inducted by 2017.&#8221;<br \/>\nDismissing reports about US offer to India for joining the American fifth generation fighter aircraft programme, the Defence Minister said a decision in this regard has already been taken and there was no question on going back on the deal with Russia in this regard.<br \/>\n09\/02\/11 PTI\/<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/news-by-industry\/transportation\/airlines-\/-aviation\/tejas-to-be-inducted-into-iaf-by-next-year\/articleshow\/7461882.cms\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: The indigenous Light Combat Aircraft &#8216;Tejas&#8217; will be inducted into the Indian Air Force by 2012 and its advanced version will be ready for operational service by the end of 2015. &#8220;LCA Tejas Mk-I would be ready for induction by 2012. The LCA Mk-II would take another three years and would be inducted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-defence","tag-tejas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}