{"id":2021,"date":"2011-01-10T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2011-01-10T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:30:06","slug":"indias-first-homegrown-supersonic-fighter-jet-tejas-handed-over-to-indian-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2021","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s first homegrown supersonic fighter jet Tejas handed over to Indian Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Supersonic fighter Tejas handed  over to Indian Air Force<\/h2>\n<p>A historic  moment for the Indian aerospace industry: The much maligned, vilified  and written off indigenous aircraft was finally inducted into the India  Air Force in Bangalore on Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"acontent\"><!-- @import url(\"http:\/\/stcjp.msn.com\/br\/csl\/css\/38742CDE2D315FB67F7A0AF2CBE04B3B\/fbutility.css\"); --><!--[if IE 6]><mce:style type=\"text\/css\"><!  @import url(\"http:\/\/stcjp.msn.com\/br\/csl\/css\/4BF0D71272C2D7B1B0F06FC4B10F5AF9\/fbutility_ie6.css\"); --><!--[endif]--><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\/*<![CDATA[*\/jQuery.async(0,0,\"http:\/\/stjjp.msn.com\/br\/csl\/js\/080F5672F07C9CAABA33D7F8C1DB4751\/fbutility.js\");\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\/*<![CDATA[*\/jQuery.async(\"Msn.Facebook\",function(){Msn.Facebook.initiateFacebookLike('132970837947','');Msn.Facebook.TrackingData = {fbAppId:\"132970837947\",actionName:\"recommend\",omniAccountName:\"\",samplingRate:\"100\",pageType:\"article\"};Msn.Facebook.trackingFacebookLike('');});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"abody\">\n<div style=\"width: 504px;\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stbjp.msn.com\/i\/3F\/DCC23FBDCB131384B1497C2E1A177.jpg\" alt=\"Supersonic fighter Tejas handed over to Indian Air Force\" width=\"132\" height=\"63\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bangalore:  Inching closer to modernisation with self sufficiency, India&#8217;s first  homegrown supersonic fighter jet, the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)  &#8216;Tejas&#8217;, was handed over to the IAF by Defence minister, A K Antony  after the Initial Operational Clearance. The LCA, which has remained  under development for nearly three decades and braved technology denial  regimes, has achieved the significant milestone in the presence of  Defence Minister A K Antony and Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal P V  Naik.<\/p>\n<p>Post clearance, the LCA will now take several flying  missions and after that it will have to obtain its Final Operational  Clearance (FOC) to be finally inducted into operational service, which  is likely to happen by the end of 2012, Ministry officials said.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supersonic fighter Tejas handed over to Indian Air Force A historic moment for the Indian aerospace industry: The much maligned, vilified and written off indigenous aircraft was finally inducted into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2021\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,125],"tags":[7245,7246,3988,7247,7248,7249,4997,7250,7251,7252,7253,7254,7255,7256],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","category-current-affairs-today","tag-air-force-chief-air-chief-marshal","tag-iaf","tag-indias-first","tag-indias-first-homegrown-supersonic-fighter-jet","tag-indias-first-supersonic-fighter-jet","tag-indias-supersonic-fighter-jet","tag-indian-air-force","tag-lca","tag-light-combat-aircraft","tag-light-combat-aircraft-tejas","tag-supersonic-fighter-jet","tag-tejas","tag-tejas-handed-over-to-indian-air-force","tag-the-indian-air-force","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}