{"id":183313,"date":"2014-12-27T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/27\/india-initiates-stobar-tests-with-light-combat-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2014-12-27T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T04:19:00","slug":"india-initiates-stobar-tests-with-light-combat-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/27\/india-initiates-stobar-tests-with-light-combat-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"India Initiates STOBAR Tests with Light Combat Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/SjwSv1a.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/SjwSv1a.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>India&#8217;s defense upgrades continue apace.<\/p>\n<p>They have <a href=\"http:\/\/defense-update.com\/20141224_naval_lca.html\">started ski-jump tests with the Light Combat Aircraf<\/a> (LCA):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The first prototype of the Navalaized <span><a href=\"http:\/\/defense-update.com\/tag\/tejas\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"View all posts in Tejas\" rel=\"noopener\">Tejas<\/a><\/span> Indigenous Combat Aircraft (<span><a href=\"http:\/\/defense-update.com\/tag\/lca\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"View all posts in LCA\" rel=\"noopener\">LCA<\/a><\/span>) developed for the <span><a href=\"http:\/\/defense-update.com\/tag\/india\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"View all posts in India\" rel=\"noopener\">India<\/a><\/span>n  Navy has took off saturday (December 20, 2014) from the Ski-Jump  facility of Shore Based Test Facility (SBTF) at INS Hansa in Goa. <span><a href=\"http:\/\/defense-update.com\/tag\/lca\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"View all posts in LCA\" rel=\"noopener\">LCA<\/a><\/span> (Navy) is designed with stronger landing gears to absorb forces exerted  by the ski jump ramp during take-off, and cable arrested landing. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m dubious of the suitability of tailless (or canardless) design on an aircraft carrier, but this does represent a step forward for the Indian Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s defense upgrades continue apace. They have started ski-jump tests with the Light Combat Aircraf (LCA): The first prototype of the Navalaized Tejas Indigenous Combat Aircraft (LCA) developed for the Indian Navy has took off saturday (December 20, 2014) from the Ski-Jump facility of Shore Based Test Facility (SBTF) at INS Hansa in Goa. LCA &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006,1161,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military","category-naval","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}