{"id":13390,"date":"2016-07-09T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13390"},"modified":"2016-07-09T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T10:22:11","slug":"first-squadron-tejas-inducted-indian-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/first-squadron-tejas-inducted-indian-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"First Squadron of &#8220;Tejas&#8221; inducted into Indian Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) &#8220;Tejas&#8221; inducted into No. 45 Squadron of Indian Air Force (IAF) which is also called as-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Flying Daggers<br \/>\n(b) Indian Warriors<br \/>\n(c) Indian flying Daggers<br \/>\n(d) Sky Daggers<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 1 July 2016 the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) &#8220;Tejas&#8221; inducted into No. 45 Squadron of Indian Air Force (IAF).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It should be known that No. 45 Squadron is also called as the &#8220;Flying Daggers&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The squadron is equipped with MiG 21 Bis Aircraft and operated from Nalia.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s motto is &#8220;Ajeet Nabha&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tejas will replace MiG-21 and MiG-27.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Squadron will operate from Bangalore for nearly two years before it moves to its designated location at Sulur near Coimbatore.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the first fighter Squadron to be a part of the Southern Air Command of IAF headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Group Captain Madhav Rangachari, an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, is the Commanding Officer of Flying Daggers.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTejas\u201d has been designed and developed by Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and produced by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tejas is the first advance Fly-by-wire (FBW) fighter aircraft designed, developed and manufactured in India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tejas is a 4th Plus generation aircraft with a glass cockpit and is equipped with state of the art Satellite aided Inertial Navigation System.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has a digital computer based attack system and an autopilot.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It can fire Air to Air Missiles, Bombs as well as Precision Guided Munitions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146697\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146697<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146717\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146717<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) &#8220;Tejas&#8221; inducted into No. 45 Squadron of Indian Air Force (IAF) which is also called as- (a) Flying Daggers (b) Indian Warriors (c) Indian flying Daggers (d) Sky Daggers Ans: (a) Related facts: On 1 July 2016 the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) &#8220;Tejas&#8221; inducted into No. 45 Squadron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-13390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}