{"id":1871,"date":"2020-05-27T17:44:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2020-05-27T17:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:44:26","slug":"hal-produced-lca-tejas-inducted-into-iaf-squadron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"HAL produced LCA Tejas inducted into IAF squadron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HAL produced FOC standard LCA Tejas\u00a0\u00a0 has been inducted into IAF Squadron \u2018The Flying Bullets\u2019 at a function at Sulur (Tamil Nadu) today, marking another milestone for HAL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bengaluru, May 27, 2020: HAL produced FOC standard LCA Tejas&nbsp;&nbsp; has been inducted into IAF Squadron \u2018The Flying Bullets\u2019 at a function at Sulur (Tamil Nadu) today, marking another milestone for HAL. \u201cWe are proud to deliver a much lethal aircraft than the IOC block. Apart from all the capabilities of IOC aircraft, the FOC variant additionally comes with Air- to-Air refueling capability, close combat gun, additional drop tanks, BVR missile capability, updated avionics and flight control software suite\u201d, says Mr. R. Madhavan, CMD, HAL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1150\" data-id=\"1873\" data-link=\"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/?attachment_id=1873\" data-url=\"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2dd89f6f-a178-46a0-b27d-6eea4380cb71.jpg\" data-width=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/saptaswaranews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2dd89f6f-a178-46a0-b27d-6eea4380cb71.jpg\"><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"960\" data-id=\"1874\" data-link=\"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/?attachment_id=1874\" data-url=\"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6d9acb04-12ed-4a47-a831-cf1b0013066f.jpg\" data-width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/saptaswaranews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/6d9acb04-12ed-4a47-a831-cf1b0013066f.jpg\"><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The FOC variant will reduce the maintenance man hours and turn-around time resulting in enhanced support for IAF missions. Four more FOC-LCAs are in the advanced stages of production and testing and expected to join the Squadron soon.&nbsp; HAL commenced the training for both air crew as well as maintenance crew for FOC aircraft and the first batch of trained air warriors are already with the 18 Squadron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAL produced FOC standard LCA Tejas&nbsp;&nbsp; has been inducted into IAF Squadron &lsquo;The Flying Bullets&rsquo; at a function at Sulur (Tamil Nadu) today, marking another milestone for HAL Bengaluru, May 27, 2020: HAL produced FOC standard LCA Tejas&nbsp;&nbsp; has been inducted into IAF Squadron &lsquo;The Flying Bullets&rsquo; at a function at Sulur (Tamil Nadu) today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow3p6nCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}