{"id":188655,"date":"2025-11-23T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=188655"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:20:23","slug":"tejas-crash-dampens-export-hopes-for-indian-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/11\/23\/tejas-crash-dampens-export-hopes-for-indian-fighter-jet.html","title":{"rendered":"Tejas crash dampens export hopes for Indian fighter jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-188527\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/18-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"154\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Islamabad: The crash of India\u2019s Tejas fighter in front of global arms buyers at the Dubai Airshow is the latest blow to a key national trophy, leaving the jet reliant on Indian military orders to sustain its role as a showcase of home-built defence technology.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the cause of Friday\u2019s crash was not immediately known but it capped a week of jockeying for influence at the event, attended by India\u2019s rival Pakistan six months after the neighbouring foes faced off in the world\u2019s largest air battle in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Such a public loss will inevitably overshadow India\u2019s efforts to establish the jet abroad after a painstaking development over four decades, experts said, as India paid tribute to Wing Commander Namansh Syal who died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe imagery is brutal,\u201d said Douglas A. Birkey, executive director of the US-based Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, referring to the history of crashes at air shows where nations and industries seek to tout major national achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA crash sends quite the opposite signal: a dramatic failure,\u201d he said, adding that the Tejas would suffer negative publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Dubai is the world\u2019s third-largest air show after Paris and Britain\u2019s Farnborough, and accidents at such events have become increasingly rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The crash of India\u2019s Tejas fighter in front of global arms buyers at the Dubai Airshow is the latest blow to a key national trophy, leaving the jet reliant on Indian military orders to sustain its role as a showcase of home-built defence technology. According to Kashmir Media Service, the cause of Friday\u2019s crash &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/18-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188656,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188655\/revisions\/188656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}