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[sancho]

Sancho bhai, this news might cheer you up...

Partially yes, because I can't wait to see it inducted in IAF, but on the otherside I don't give too much about DRDO and ADA officials and their statements.

 

[Bobby]

MK2 looks lot different than existing one

 

[brahmastra]

its rafale kinda design.

 

[sudhir007]

India

The naval prototype of India’s Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) made its first test flight on April 27. Already delayed by four years, the program still faces design concerns, including weight. Strengthening of the rear airframe for carrier operations, and the addition of an arrestor hook, has made the aircraft about 1,000 pounds overweight.

“The naval variant of the LCA will require the F414 Enhanced Performance Engine [EPE] providing up to 26,500 pounds of thrust, a 20-percent boost,” an Indian Navy official told AIN. General Electric and Boeing have proposed the EPE for future versions of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, with a new fan, compressor and turbine, but it is still in development. India has ordered 99 F414-INS6 engines to power Mk2 versions of the Tejas, but they are believed to offer the standard 22,000 pounds of thrust. The prototype and limited series production Tejas Mk1s–including the naval prototype–are powered by GE F404-IN20 engines that produce 17,700 pounds. India ordered 41 of these after development problems with the indigenous Kaveri engine that was supposed to power the LCA.

Indian Defense Minister A.K. Anthony attributes delays to the naval LCA to “technical complexities, non-availability of infrastructure and critical components and technology denial regimes, extended user trials and the failure of some of the components during testing.” EADS has been providing technical assistance. The naval LCA schedule is supposed to align with construction of India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier, due to be completed in 2014. To facilitate proving the aircraft for carrier operations, a shore-based test facility is being set up at Naval Air Station Goa replicating an aircraft carrier with a ski jump for launch and arresting gear for deck recovery. The takeoff area is ready, and completion of the landing area is scheduled for year-end. The cost of developing the naval LCA has escalated from the initially sanctioned $186 million to $336 million.

Over the next decade the Indian Air Force (IAF) plans to form six Tejas squadrons, four of them flying the Mk2 version. The first squadron is slated to deploy by July next year, to Sulur airbase in Tamil Nadu, but this date appears likely to slip to the end of next year. The preliminary design of the Mk2 powered by the F414 has been completed. The first flight is expected by 2014, around the time the Tejas Mk1 is declared fully operational. The IAF has said it will buy at least 83 Mk2s if the variant meets performance requirements.

Meanwhile, development of the Kaveri engine continues with Snecma, which has been providing technical assistance. The Kaveri is still considered an alternative engine for the LCA, and a spin-off version could power India’s proposed Unmanned Strike Air Vehicle. The ninth Kaveri engine prototype was integrated with an Il-76 testbed aircraft at the Gromov Flight Research Institute in Russia last year.

 

[satishkumarcsc]

MK2 looks lot different than existing one

Thats the naval MK2. Read the tail fin markings.

 

[sudhir007]

LCA-Tejas has completed 1844 Test Flights successfully. (04-May-2012).
(TD1-233,TD2-305,PV1-242,PV2-222,PV3-340,LSP1-74,LSP2-207,PV5-36,LSP3-50,LSP4-51,LSP5-81,LSP7-2,NP1-1)

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LCA-Tejas has completed 1842 Test Flights successfully. (04-May-2012).
(TD1-233,TD2-305,PV1-242,PV2-222,PV3-340,LSP1-74,LSP2-207,PV5-36,LSP3-49,LSP4-51,LSP5-80,LSP7-2,NP1-1)

 

[sathya]

Tejas Heads to Goa for Weapons Trials

Sources close to idrw.org have informed, that Tejas is all set to land in Goa to carry out weapons trails in next few days , another source close to idrw.org has mentioned that Indian air forces Il-76 aircraft with crew and technicians from Bangalore have already landed in Goa today (07/05/2012) in evening and aircrafts should be arriving soon .

Tejas after Goa trails will be heading to Pokhran, Jaisalmer, and back to chitradurga. To complete it weapons trials to achieve the IOC-2, Final LSP-8 is also ready and will be carrying out Taxi trials soon and first flight is expected in Next month of June.

 

[rockstarIN]

What IL-76 to do with LCA?

There are activities going on LCA project and unlike earlier, ADA is very close-lipped about it...

 

[sancho]

What IL-76 to do with LCA?

There are activities going on LCA project and unlike earlier, ADA is very close-lipped about it...

Il-76 aircraft with crew and technicians from Bangalore have already landed in Goa

So they just transported them and possibly equipment/weapons, nothing else.

 

[Chinese guy]

Fighter is too expensive, the development time is too long

 

[SamantK]

Fighter is too expensive, the development time is too long

Did you join this forum to post this?

 

[sancho]

what kind of weapon trial is this, and what r the difference from last 2 trial which held in goa

Better discuss it here in the right thread.

Just a guess, but Goa or to be more precises INS Hansa is the home base of INs Sea Harriers, that already has the Elta 2032 and Derby missiles integrated. So they might use the missiles from INs stock and will held missile relase and radar integration trials over the sea, not to mention that they could even test the launch of older Sea Eagle anti ship missiles, that the Harrier also has. Pokhran, Jaisalmer could be A2G weapon trials again with LGBs, targeting pod...

 

[Nishan_101]

Look the Missile is Aim-120

It has nothing to do with hate, I simply don't have the attitude to celebrate every baby step of the development, because that only hides the other side of the problem. I celebrate when there is something to celebrate (IOC, FOC, set up of the first operational squad) and not for PR reasons.
When we look at it with open eyes, we must ask why DRDO, ADA and co needed roughly 2 years (roll out of N-LCA in 2010), to get the same fighter without any changes up in the sky?

I think that It will be based on the current IN carrier as they are looking towards upgrading there curretn carrier.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Look the Missile is Aim-120



I think that It will be based on the current IN carrier as they are looking towards upgrading there curretn carrier.

No the N-LCA will not be deployed on the INS Viraat (current IN ACC) but the Vikramditya and IAC-1. This is because a realistic timeline for the induction of N-LCA is not until 2017/18 and by this time the INS VIRAAT will have been decommissioned. Additionally the Viraat is too small to house the N-LCA and it is set up as a V/STOL carrier not a STOBAR carrier (like the Vikramditya and IAC-1) which means it is not compatible with the N-LCA anyway.

 

[Black Widow]

No the N-LCA will not be deployed on the INS Viraat (current IN ACC) but the Vikramditya and IAC-1. This is because a realistic timeline for the induction of N-LCA is not until 2017/18 and by this time the INS VIRAAT will have been decommissioned. Additionally the Viraat is too small to house the N-LCA and it is set up as a V/STOL carrier not a STOBAR carrier (like the Vikramditya and IAC-1) which means it is not compatible with the N-LCA anyway.

right Virat is STOVL (Short take of and verticle landing) configuration. While LCA can not land vertically. N-LCA will be (STOBAR) Short Take off and Asserted recovery Aircraft. So Virat is out of question. Vikadi and Vikrant I is where LCA will be hosed in hi-low Mix with MiG29K... Correct me If I am wrong.

IAC II is assumed to be CATOBAR (Catapult Take off but asserted recovery), I think N-AMCA and N-MMRCA will be CATOBAR configuration. But still "Dilli door hai" .