{"id":88851,"date":"2019-02-21T12:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2019-02-21T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:52:46","slug":"tejas-worlds-lightest-fighter-is-battle-ready-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tejas-worlds-lightest-fighter-is-battle-ready-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tejas, world\u2019s lightest fighter, is battle ready"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India&#8217;s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has received the final operational clearance (FOC) from military aviation regulator for induction into the Indian Air Force (IAF) as a weaponised fighter jet.<\/li><li> The LCA Tejas is an Indian single-seat, single-jet engine, multi-role light fighter.Its design is highly manoeuvrable, with a tailless, compound delta wing configuration. <\/li><li> It came from the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, which began in the 1980s to replace India\u2019s ageing MiG-21 fighters.Later, the LCA was officially named \u201cTejas\u201d, meaning \u201cRadiant\u201d by the then Prime Minister.It is the smallest and lightest in its class of contemporary supersonic combat aircraft.<\/li><li> It is designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force and Navy<\/li><li> This indigenously produced will reduce the monetary constrains, and provide more efficiency to Indian Defence.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has received the final operational clearance (FOC) from military aviation regulator for induction into the Indian Air Force (IAF) as a weaponised fighter jet. The LCA Tejas is an Indian single-seat, single-jet engine, multi-role light fighter.Its design is highly manoeuvrable, with a tailless, compound delta wing configuration. It came&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tejas-worlds-lightest-fighter-is-battle-ready-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tejas, world\u2019s lightest fighter, is battle ready<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[2259],"class_list":["post-88851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-lca-tejas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704822960},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}