{"id":168152,"date":"2025-01-19T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/indian-air-force-lca-mk1a-hal-tejas-mid-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T00:00:10","slug":"is-the-indian-air-force-likely-to-get-its-1st-lca-mk1a-hal-tejas-by-mid-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=168152","title":{"rendered":"Is The Indian Air Force Likely To Get Its 1st LCA Mk1A HAL Tejas By Mid-2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The HAL LCA (light combat aircraft) Tejas is a domestically produced Indian delta-wing multirole fighter jet designed by India&#8217;s Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and built by India&#8217;s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). Tejas was         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2025616\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/india-air-force-fighter-jets\/\" >built to serve the Indian Air Force<\/a><\/span> and represents a significant step in India&#8217;s quest to develop its domestic defense industry. As with many fighter jet programs, the Tejas has faced delays, but it seems that the Indian Air Force will once again start taking delivery of the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span> soon (deliveries have been delayed due to             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"89154\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/general-electric\/\"  >General Electric&#8217;s<\/a><\/span> supply chain woes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Air Force is set to receive its first Mk1A HAL Tejas soon after the expected delivery of the GE F404 engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1258,396,628,553,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-india","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168153,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168152\/revisions\/168153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}