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

[Water Car Engineer]

SP21, FOC config:
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First FOC model out in two months.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

NLCA Hook Landing

 

[Tejas Spokesman]

OBOGs on Tejas will be game changer.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Naval Tejas Mark 2 - Bigger in Size has an addition of stablizers

 

[ziaulislam]

Naval Tejas Mark 2 - Bigger in Size has an addition of stablizers

Delta with a tail?

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Delta with a tail?

Yeah - IAF and IN designs are diverging

IN

IAF

 

[Flight of falcon]

Would you guys believe I was 10 years old when the work on this aircraft started.

Not a single unit is serving at the front line.

I just turned 40.

 

[KapitaanAli]

Would you guys believe I was 10 years old when the work on this aircraft started.

Not a single unit is serving at the front line.

I just turned 40.

30 years is a short time to develop a modern aeronautical R&D from scratch, through sanctions. It's not like any other country has done it during that ~time, sans India and earlier China.

It's a sad story that LCA was denied the opportunity to replace MiG21. But now the program is mature enough that everyone's confident its versions will replace three to four types. A positive side effect from IAF preventing mass induction of the base LCA just to replace/augment MiG21.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

LCA Mark 1 --> LCA Mark 2 --> MWF

 

[Ali_Baba]

The addition of the canard tells you how wrong the design of the LCA is to begin with, and why the IAF is having it rammed down their throats as hard as both the Indian Goverment and HAL can manage it !!!

 

[KapitaanAli]

The addition of the canard tells you how wrong the design of the LCA is to begin with, and why the IAF is having it rammed down their throats as hard as both the Indian Goverment and HAL can manage it !!!

Canards because Mk2 is longer and heavier. Mk1 was wind tunnel tested with canards and then dropped.

Mk1 had to be pushed down the throat because of changing goal posts and IAF's desire for Mk1A specs, especially AESA.

 

[KapitaanAli]

First full cycle indigenous demonstration of technologies required for aircraft carrier operation of fighter aircraft was achieved last afternoon. LCA Naval Prototype NP2 launched from the ramp at 16:21 and trapped at 16:31 at INS Hansa.

 

[KapitaanAli]

NLCA:

 

[KapitaanAli]

 

[KapitaanAli]