{"id":195488,"date":"2008-07-06T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/06\/india-putting-tejas-light-fighter-on-fast-track\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T10:45:00","slug":"india-putting-tejas-light-fighter-on-fast-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/06\/india-putting-tejas-light-fighter-on-fast-track\/","title":{"rendered":"India Putting Tejas Light Fighter on Fast Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Indian defense establishment has noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-06-30&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/06\/30\/AW_06_30_2008_p43-61629.xml&amp;headline=India+Trying+To+Put+LCA+Development+on+Fast+Forward\">something is wrong when a small, relatively austere fighter program enters its 25th year without any fielded aircraft<\/a>. (<em>Paid Subscription Required<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Development started in 1983 for a very unambitious program, as compared to the 1981 for the F-22 with a formal entry into service in 2004, and India still needs to use a foreign engine, the F-404, to power the the aircraft, because the indigenous engine the Kaveri, is still not ready for prime time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s somewhat reassuring to see a procurement process more screwed up than that of the good old USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Indian defense establishment has noticed that something is wrong when a small, relatively austere fighter program enters its 25th year without any fielded aircraft. (Paid Subscription Required) Development started in 1983 for a very unambitious program, as compared to the 1981 for the F-22 with a formal entry into service in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195488"}],"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=195488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}