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State Agency Busy, Private Industry To Build Composites For Production LCA Tejas
With series production of the Tejas MK-1 to begin shortly to service an order for 20 (+20) aircraft for the Indian Air Force's inaugural LCA squadron, the Tata Group will, fortuitously enough, build the aircraft's most complex composite parts, giving the production series of the aircraft a decidedly more substantial private sector component that originally planned. The decision to rope in Tata's Advanced Materials Ltd (TAML) to build 20 sets of composites for the first 20 Tejas MK-1 jets was taken after India's state-owned National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL) first accepted the task, despite being a strictly design and development agency, and then said its hands were full ("oh and hey, we're not a production agency") with reviving the Saras (more on that later) and other civil airplane programmes. Tata will produce 13 major composite parts for each of the 20 Tejas MK-1 fighters. These include parts in the centre fuselage, undercarriage doors, fin and rudder.
Livefist - Indian Defence & Aerospace: State Agency Busy, Private Industry To Build Composites For Production LCA Tejas
Will make a brilliant addition to Iron-Man 3!!!FAN ART: All-Chrome LCA Tejas!
Livefist follower Abhishek Kaushal sent me the above image today, his render of the Light Combat Aircraft. In his own words, "This is my first attempt at rendering, and I don't know why I put an all-chrome finish on the LCA body". Still pretty slick.
Livefist - Indian Defence & Aerospace: FAN ART: All-Chrome LCA Tejas!
Tarmak007 -- A bold blog on Indian defence: Tracking the Tejas: Weather holds back LSP-5 flight again today
Despite being cleared by the flight readiness review board and having undertaking the most-tempting high-speed taxi trials (HSTT) a number of times, the maiden flight of the Tejas limited series production (LSP-5) had to be postponed again today (Nov 17). Ruining LSP-5's sky party in Bangalore was the weather again.
The LSP-5 has been waiting in the wing for more than a week now to kiss the Bangalore skies. This is the 11th test vehicle to joint the flightline of India's light combat aircraft (LCA) program.
"We had prepared the aircrfat ready last night hoping that the weather will clear today. The team was ready even though it is a closed holiday due to Id. Now, we are hoping for the best tomorrow and so that we could fly. Even we had an HSTT today," sources said.
Stay tuned for more updates. Hope the Weather Gods would shift their rain dance venue from Bangalore!
damn our f 414 is going to cost us 4 times than russian.
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major defect with RD93 is that it will leave out a black smoke as exhaust fumes so no need for a radar tracker a soldier with shoulder fire anti aircraft missile can fire at it........... so its good for us..........