HAL Tejas | Updates, News & Discussions

[1ndy]

Congratulations team LCA...
LCA is now available on FGFS... fly this awesome machine on your computer...

 

[ganimi kawa]

A collection of pics of LCA trainer version.

She is quite a stunner, isn't she?

And here is a comparison of standard and trainer version.

I hope the MK2 version retains the curves à la N-LCA! Cause that's how we like 'em, curvalicious!

 

[IndianArmy]

Altogether a Proud Moment for India, Proved all Critics wrong, And Why Not when Our Engineers have Given up there Life To give the Nation Indigenous Wings... This Day would be marked For Obvious reason..... Have sent a Strong message to the World, India has Done it Finally...

AMCA The Next Target, Fixed By ADA and HAL.... Hope this time they Set the Wings Well In Advance

 

[ANG]

Hi, congratulations. This is a proud moment for India. Yes the project was delayed, but nevertheless India has made great strides and should be proud of this achievement. Take care.

BBC News - Fit to fly: The Tejas, first made-in-India fighter jet

 

[MAFIAN GOD]

Kudos to every Indian on the forum.

 

[tallboy123]

cool.............

 

[Imran Khan]

CONGS one step more .

 

[I FLY HIGH]

Well u know,all these comments were worth for u before Jan 10..
But now,after Jan 10,these comments has no value..

Finally We did it...
Now Burn....

Burning on Tejas , first look at the performance of your plane , still no nevegation system , no armament , I dont know how many more years required for that ? It is only to make you people happy , so now close your eyes and be happy that you have a third generation plane . I think your government is making a lot fool of yourself . This plane should have been cleared for operation on first of april. Dear it is a long way for it to be operational.

 

[tallboy123]

 

[I FLY HIGH]

Still why you need years to induct it in IAF? Dear jxx is also flying and delivering proto bombs , but it cannot be operational in PLAAF. Operational JF17 Thunder means it is already inducted in PAF. Operational means ready for combat.

 

[casual]

are you seriously going to play 31million usd for this?

buy more f16s

 

[Windjammer]

BANGALORE: After a tortuous journey of 27 years, with over 1,500 flight-tests and almost 3,000% jump in overall developmental costs, the much-touted but long-delayed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft has finally taken the first step towards induction as a supersonic fighter into IAF.

Amid much fanfare and back-slapping, defence minister A K Antony handed over the Tejas initial operational clearance (IOC) certificate to IAF chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik at a ceremony here on Monday.

The IOC basically means that the largely homegrown fighter is now fully airworthy, in its initial configuration, to be flown by IAF pilots but not all weapon and other systems have been fully integrated into the platform. That will happen only by December 2012 when the single-engine, multi-role fighter gets the final operational clearance (FOC).

"Today is a historic day...A state-of-the-art indigenous combat aircraft will go a long way in enhancing national security,'' said Antony, showering praise on the entire LCA team led by Aeronautical Development Agency, Defence Research and Development Organisation and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.

The euphoria was somewhat justified, given that the supersonic fighter has been built from scratch in a country with an extremely poor defence-industrial base and in the face of international sanctions for several years.

But there has to be a reality check, even if it seems harsh. Even Antony admitted that Tejas had reached just "the semi-final stage'' at this point. As was first reported by TOI earlier, the overall developmental cost of the Tejas project, including the naval variant and trainer, has zoomed up to Rs 17,269 crore from the initial Rs 560 crore earmarked for it in 1983. With each Tejas to cost around Rs 200 crore over and above this, India will end up spending well over Rs 25,000 crore on the programme.

Moreover, the real induction of the first 40 Tejas jets will begin only towards end-2013, with the first two squadrons becoming fully operational at the Sulur airbase (Tamil Nadu) by 2015 or so, a full three decades after the LCA project was first sanctioned to replace the ageing MiG-21s.

That's not all. The first test-flight of the Tejas Mark-II version, with more powerful American GE F-414 engines, will be possible only by December 2014, with its production beginning in June 2016. And even then, the Tejas will just be a medium to low-end fighter, not a high-end air dominance one.

ACM Naik, in fact, described Tejas as a "MiG-21 plus-plus'', and made it clear that it was not even a fourth-generation fighter at present but would be in the future, indicating it will primarily be used to plug the gap in numbers.

Consequently, India's frontline combat fighters will the 270 Russian-origin Sukhoi-30MKIs already being inducted for around $12 billion, the 126 new medium multi-role combat aircraft to be acquired in the $10.4 billion MMRCA project and the 250 to 300 fifth-generation fighter aircraft to be built with Russia in the gigantic $35 billion project.

Yes, there is no getting away from the critical fact that India has to be self-reliant in military hardware and software if it wants to emerge as a superpower on the global stage. But the Tejas saga puts serious question marks on the defence indigenisation model being followed. The fighter, for instance, is still only around 60% indigenous despite being 27 years in the making. It, for example, is powered by American GE engines, with the indigenous Kaveri engine failing to pass muster despite Rs 2,839 crore being spent on it since 1989.
27 years, 3000% cost hike later, Tejas takes off - The Times of India



Read more: 27 years, 3000% cost hike later, Tejas takes off - The Times of India 27 years, 3000% cost hike later, Tejas takes off - The Times of India

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

they'll only induct 40?

hmm..

 

[Windjammer]

they'll only induct 40?

hmm..

Another Arjun in making. !!!!

 

[ajtr]

IAF has been forced to by this just for the sake of the pride of HAL/ADA.ultimately LCA gonna end up directly from production line to junkyard and once in year india will see it flying past janpath on every 26th january.