HAL Tejas | Updates, News & Discussions-[Thread 2]

[MirageBlue]

Deccan Herald article on Tejas Mk2.

- Indigenous content to go up to 70% from 62% on Mk1A
- 410 private firms to supply to the Tejas Mk2 program compared to 344 for the Tejas Mk1A
- Critical Design Review (CDR) was completed on Nov 15, with 20 sub-systems' CDR being done with IAF
- Metal cutting to start soon. Acquisition of components to start soon. Jigs and fixtures will be set up
- Targeted roll-out of Tejas Mk2 prototype in December 2022 (1 year from now, which is quite ambitious)
- First flight targeted in end 2023

Boon for Indian industries waiting in wings of LCA Mk2

Cutting-edge technology and more indigenisation - This is the mandate of the LCA Tejas AF Mark 2 project which completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) this week. The clearance will allow hundreds of Indian private firms to participate in the most advanced aircraft project to date in the country.

ADA sources speaking with DH described the Mark 2 as a 4.5-generation machine that will not only have 70 per cent indigenisation (as opposed to the 62 per cent of the Mark IA), but will incorporate more advanced technologies to be built in India. “The aircraft’s increased indigenisation quotient will be increased by the replacement of imported components and systems with locally manufactured units,” said sources at the
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) which is the nodal agency for the design and development of the LCA. “We have already ascertained that all the raw materials are available for production months ago. We will have 410 private firms across the country supplying Line Replacement Units (LRUs) and other components -- up from the 344 private firms for the Mark IA,” an ADA source said.

According to defence sources, the long-awaited CDR, which was supposed to happen in July, was finally completed on November 15, with up to 20 sub-systems being individually cleared by the Indian Air Force (IAF). “Metal cutting will soon start. The acquisition of components will start. In addition, jigs and fixtures will be set up. We are aiming for a rollout in December 2022, although the aircraft will not be moved and a first flight tentatively is fixed for the end of 2023,” an ADA source said, adding that the programme will benefit from the earlier Mark I project as many of the core technologies will be taken from from the project and superimposed on the new programme.

 

[MirageBlue]

Just a great CGI of the Tejas Mk2 MWF

Credit- Kuntal Biswas

 

[MirageBlue]

Tejas Mk1 FOC fighter - IAF regn number LA-5023, which means this is SP-27, the 7th FOC fighter. 9 more single seaters to go.

Image courtesy- Gaur.aviation

 

[Farhan Bohra]

 

[Suriya]

Comparison with JF17

Hamara Tejas | Episode-3 | KH-AK show | IAF will be dominated by desi fighters in future: Dr Kota

Hamara Tejas | Episode-4 | KH-AK show | There's nothing Young India cannot achieve now: Guru Kota

 

[Maula Jatt]

you are back?....
again....

 

[Tornado23]

you are back?....
again....

I was just gonna say that lmao.

 

[Bilal9]

I didn't have the patience to sit through these poorly produced fluff pieces for a less-than-spectacular airplane.

Why can't these people stop their wild motions with their hands ? What's up with that ??

The snippets I heard (wild claims) were,

- Foar Plass gen Tek-na-lajee !
- Owar ninetee pursent com-pa-zeet ! etc.

So this is the Indian expert Dr. Kota designing this thing and there is no deep-dive discussion on what makes this a great airplane. Ended up sounding like a quack.

Was this useless propaganda piece made for ten-year-olds in India?

Forget deep-dive, there is no medium-dive discussion either.

Very anti-climactic - knowing that "owar ninetee pursent" of the components for this airplane are foreign made, and they can't even talk about that either (integration subject, challenges etc.).

Made for uneducated bhakt consumption - Waste of time...

 

[Goenitz]

So F-16 flew better with Teja control 11:56 ? idk how it was integrated at first place

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

So F-16 flew better with Teja control 11:56 ? idk how it was integrated at first place

For those who know the programme, our FBW system took off at LM in their test F16 plane. Our engineers improved the performance of the test aircrafts.
After 98', the whole team.was evicted from the office and even their notes, computers weren't allowed to be taken.

From there, they came back,developed the compilers, developed whole libraries and finished FBW system development. That is what he is mentioning.

 

[Deltadart]

Yes this surya is like a bad infection, that keeps coming back, over and over again.
@Huffal , @Sainthood 101

 

[SaadH]

From there, they came back,developed the compilers, developed whole libraries and finished FBW system development. That is what he is mentioning.

Why were they at LM in the first place?

 

[faithfulguy]

Why open a thread on this plane? Isn’t there a pinned thread for this plane? This plane is a failed plane. Should be cancelled long time ago. It wasn’t so Indian Air Force is forced to buy a plane they do not want. So they stuck it on a truck and take it to air shows.Is it too late for India to take it outside of the barn and shoot it?

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

Why were they at LM in the first place?

Cos we had no experience on developing FCS software in the first place.....

 

[beijingwalker]

How 'indigenous' is the Indian Tejas LCA
It has a GE American engine, an Israeli Elta radar, and British aerospace, avionics, and other engines...