Indian Air Force gets first Tejas light combat aircraft

Bengaluru: Thirty-two years after the project was sanctioned, the first indigenously-built Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) was today handed over by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to the IAF, a

red letter day for Indian defence and aerospace sector.

The handover signals the start of a process of induction of the fighters being built at home under a project which has already cost the exchequer nearly Rs 8,000 crore.

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India well prepared to thwart possible terror attack: Parrikar

New Delhi/Nagrota: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said India is "well prepared" to thwart

any possible terror attack in the backdrop of intelligence inputs that strikes could be carried out on "soft targets" in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit here this month.

"They (terrorists) may try to do something to create news. But we are well prepared," Parrikar said.

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