HAL Tejas FOC on 4 Jan 2019 - First flight 4 Jan 2001.

[Surya 1]

We are going to have a very fruitful year of 2019. We shall induct our own gun, we will have Tejas in squadron strength, Rafale may come in 2019 end. We will have induction and testing of many new missiles.

 

[Ra's al Ghul]

have heard tejas still didnt get the FOC ? any idea what happend ?

 

[ranadd]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sou...aw1WhUCY_Ys_d2bLIYluWJlI&ust=1546736992689920

 

[1ndy]

Tejas is not ready... Rafale is a must... Indian security is in danger... Let's forget Rafale Scam.

 

[HariPrasad]

I thought Indians create a thread for producing every single LCA. It turn out that Indian insecurity and bragging is more extreme than I thought. Indians create 4-5 threads every time between the production of each plane.

And in each of thread, you invariably come with your b**t hurt.

 

[Trango Towers]

Better late than never... I guess.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1079817433542742016

Lets recap:

Ideation date - 1969
Design Completion - 1975. Project was on life support after this.
Idea Revisit - 1984. ADA established.
IAF ASR Completed - 1985
TD1 Flight - 2001
Kaveri Engine program delinked - 2014
I0C 2 - 2015
Entry into Service - 2015
Bahrain Air Show - 2016
BVR Test - 2017
Hot Refuel Test - 2018

Program cost so far ~1.3Billion USD.

50 years since the idea......loooool

 

[My-Analogous]

This is a birth of a new fighter. Low in weight, highly agile, multi-role capability incorporating many state of art technologies and excellent alogerithm for care free maneuvering.

Yes, this is seventh birth(the last one) of same aircraft. Congrats

 

[faithfulguy]

And in each of thread, you invariably come with your b**t hurt.

No one is b##t hurting over India bragging. At most, people could be sore from bending over for laughing so hard that