{"id":192772,"date":"2009-02-22T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/22\/european-aerospace-aggressively-pursuing-indian-lca-program\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T11:57:00","slug":"european-aerospace-aggressively-pursuing-indian-lca-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/22\/european-aerospace-aggressively-pursuing-indian-lca-program\/","title":{"rendered":"European Aerospace Aggressively Pursuing Indian LCA Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img7.imageshack.us\/img7\/3020\/aw02092009648l8615588xx1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"350\" \/>With its indigenous <span>Kaveri<\/span> engine repeatedly delayed, India is looking to foreign engines to power light combat aircraft (<span>LCA<\/span>), the <span>Tejas<\/span>, and <span>Eurojet<\/span> is pitching its <span>EJ<\/span>200 as a competitor to the GE F414, and they are promising some, &#8220;special sauce&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/17\/322651\/aero-india-eurojet-offering-thrust-vectoring-ej200-for.html\">thrust vectoring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unspoken in this bid to power the diminutive delta is the concerns that the Indian government has regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-02-09&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/02\/09\/AW_02_09_2009_p30-116718.xml\"><span>ITAR<\/span> restrictions which could hamstring sales to other nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is also what is driving India&#8217;s interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-02-16&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/02\/16\/AW_02_16_2009_p23-118197.xml\">procuring an <span>AESA<\/span> radar from <span>EADS<\/span><\/a> for an upgraded version of the fighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its indigenous Kaveri engine repeatedly delayed, India is looking to foreign engines to power light combat aircraft (LCA), the Tejas, and Eurojet is pitching its EJ200 as a competitor to the GE F414, and they are promising some, &#8220;special sauce&#8221;, thrust vectoring. Unspoken in this bid to power the diminutive delta is the concerns &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1016,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-international-commerce","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192772"}],"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=192772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}