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"A French navy Rafale F-3 fighter aircraft launches from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Harry S. Truman is deployed as part of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S...

Its SP-1, Pic taken in 2015. http://hal-India.com/Indigenous%20Fighter%20and%20Helicopter%20to%20Fly%20at%20Bahrain%20Air%20Show/ND__148

LUH pic released by HAL https://www.facebook.com/TejasMrca/photos/a.168707089859416.45926.138059529590839/1198870410176407/?type=3&theater

made its first flight?

Any idea about the intakes?

France offers EUR 1 billion to revive India's combat jet engine project France has offered to invest EUR 1 billion to revive India's combat jet engine project, proposing a joint development plan that could see the stalled 'Kaveri' gas turbine powering indigenousTejas fighters by 2020. The...

France offers EUR 1 billion to revive India's combat jet engine project France has offered to invest EUR 1 billion to revive India's combat jet engine project, proposing a joint development plan that could see the stalled 'Kaveri' gas turbine powering indigenousTejas fighters by 2020. The...

IAF likely to get fully-loaded Tejas version it wants by 2020 The Flying Daggers, the first squadron of the Tejas indigenous light combat aircraft, which currently comprises two jets, will touch its full strength of 20 by 2018. Though it has been inducted, the Tejas is not completely...

Why the BrahMos armed Sukhoi is bad news for India’s enemies The successful trial of the modified Su-30MKI carrying the supersonic BrahMos-A cruise missile takes India a step closer to acquiring a devastating deep strike weapon. India has signalled its intent to strike enemy targets with...

India likely to test launch new missile tomorrow India is likely to test launch a new surface-to-air missile developed jointly with Israel, from a defence base off the Odisha coast on Wednesday. “Preparation for the maiden test has reached the final stage and if weather permits, it will be...

I hope your misunderstandings have been cleared. Parrikar know what's good for IAF, so does IAF. And inducting more types into the fleet when they're currently trying to reduce the same, with multi-role platforms rather than role-specific platforms, should have given you a clue. Gripen-E is...

Competing lines? What are you taking about? The private company's production line is not competing with HAL's line, rather augmenting it such that more jets can be delivered per year. Also its not HAL's decision whether to hand over part of the production of Tejas to pvt players, its MoD. If it...

I went through some documents again. What Thales/Dassault is suggesting is that the GaN modules can be miniaturized thereby using them to integrate arrays spread over the surface of the airframe (front, conformal, wings, rear etc) to give a 360deg view without any blind spots (Interestingly what...

I haven't seen it yet. Could you send a link? You didn't understand my break-up. HAL+MII -> two production lines churning out 32 jets per year.

Is it your own conjecture or do you have any substantial evidence that ADA/HAL might be working on it? Made a few changes to your figures. Let's see if it makes better sense. IAF Tejas Mk-1 = 20+20 Tejas Mk-1A = 108 (HAL + MII) Tejas Mk-2 = 144 (HAL + MII) Rafale = 36 + 90MII Total = 418...