The tejas might be proving its good enough, since it might be doing air start testing. Since it is a single-engine fighter it might require so. This proves the LCA's reliability.
The F-35 (also a single-engine fighter) has also did this.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/ue5g1jPGxu0
So for important missions (for example killing an Al-Qaeda military commander), do they use the drone autonomously? Or is it piloted for these high-ranking missions?
30th Reconnaissance Squadron
The bird seems to be standing on the Middle east and eastern China, signaling they might be spying on them for reconnaissance.
The 30 RS flies the RQ-170 Sentinel UAV out of the Tonopah Test Range Airport in Tonopah.
While the program continues to evaluate fixes for problems already identified, and to test multiple blocks of mission-system software concurrently, it is pushing ahead into new areas of testing. “From a flight-test perspective, there are two priorities this year: complete weapons...
This problem was from two years ago anyways. Already being solved.
http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2010/pdf/dod/2010f35jsf.pdf
Re-design the OBIGGS system to ensure that the fuel tank
ullage volume oxygen concentrations are maintained below
levels that sustain fire and/or explosion...
Actually this is the real reason that the F-35B has gotten grounded.
F-35B grounded after fueldraulic line failure
F-35B flight operations have been suspended at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, Eglin AFB, Florida, MCAS Yuma, Arizona, and at Lockheed Martin's production facility in Fort Worth...