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[nitesh]

what are you smoking here?

Lets see about Chandrayaan, its a join operation with russia again.

chandrayaan 1 was a joint project? Oh come on give me a break don't put such insane remarks

 

[nitesh]

Tejas PV-3 at Leh

Tejas programme reached a major milestone when the prototype vehicle PV-3 landed at Leh on 13 Dec 08 at 1326 hrs. The event is significant on many counts. Leh airfield in Ladakh region situated at an altitude of 10,600 ft is one of the highest airfields in the world. The prevailing temperature ranges from plus 5 to minus 20 deg Celsius.

 

[IceCold]

Do you guys know pakistan has a technology partner ship with India on bio-diesel. Yes both teams are working for a common goal!

Do you have anything to support your claim, if yes let it be there for all of us to read otherwise dont derail the thread with unnecessary nonsense.

 

[nitesh]

roopesh the point is on which project they have worked now you will say that even US the europeans and japanese guys have worked for ISRO fopr chandrayaan because they have came with there instruments to ISRO. Oh come on give me a break.

PS: Please don't derail the threads with off topic talks put them in relevant threads.

 

[ejaz007]

Tejas (LCA) Fighter Jet High-Altitude Trials at Leh Successful: DRDO
Dated 17/12/2008

India's indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has achieved a major milestone when its prototype landed at Leh air base in the high-altitude Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. "Tejas (LCA) programme reached a major milestone when the prototype vehicle PV-3 landed at Leh on December 13 this year at 1326 hours," Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) officials said here on Tuesday.

The event is seen as significant on many counts as Leh airfield is situated at an altitude of 10,600 feet and is one of the highest airfields in the world with a temperature variation ranging from plus 5 degrees Celsius to minus 20 degrees Celsius. The objective of the current phase of flight trials at Leh was to expose the on-board systems to the extreme low temperatures while making an assessment of the aircraft performance in the rarefied atmospheric conditions, DRDO officials said.

Two Tejas prototypes PV-3 and LSP-2 were involved in this important environmental test. The LSP-2 prototype powered by the latest IN20 engine with Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) is in the Standard of Preparation (SOP) that would be cleared for induction into the IAF service soon. As per reports received from the trial location, the current phase of flight trial was progressing well with aircraft and systems performing well, as expected, officials said.

The aircraft were soaked overnight in cold weather, with temperature around minus 20 degrees Celsius and powered up next day for operation, officials said.

Tejas (LCA) Fighter Jet High-Altitude Trials at Leh Successful: DRDO | India Defence

 

[zavis2003]

why INDIA is goingto test LCA in high altitudes this scrape jet is of no use as when it will come into productions crafts of same gen will be ground
VERY FUNNY INDIANS

 

[zavis2003]

i think INDIANs should request JF17 as it will perform better at high altitudes

 

[nitesh]

^^ care to explain how?

 

[m15t3r7]

Indians are so good at underestimating Pakistan

 

[nitesh]

The Hindu News Update Service


Describing the Light Combat Aircraft as the aircraft of future, Selvamurthy said its successful test trial was held just two days ago in the hills of Leh in sub zero temperatures.

He said DRDO has fixed a target of giving 20 such aircrafts to the Indian Air Force by 2010 and 10 more by 2012.

"This aircraft would replace MIG-21 in the coming days," he added.

 

[nitesh]

excellent foot forward, thank you Air Vice Marshal M. Matheswaran, now as the kaveri and LCA are de coupled it is sensible that to take time and put more emphasis on indigenous effort:


http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/...2008122655571000.htm&date=2008/12/26/&prd=th&

IAF not keen on French offer for Kaveri engine

Ravi Sharma

BANGALORE: Indian Air Force (IAF) is not keen on accepting an offer from the French company Snecma to join the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) in co-developing the long-delayed Kaveri turbofan combat aircraft engine.

The Kaveri engine, which has been under development at the GTRE for two decades at a cost of almost Rs.2,000 crore, is specifically being built to power the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas.

A committee set up by the IAF has indicated to Air Headquarters that the Snecma offer will not meet the Air Force’s operational requirements, nor help India acquire the technological know-how to indigenously develop a combat engine.

Constituted in September under the chairmanship of Air Vice Marshal M. Matheswaran, to look at the Snecma offer, the committee had as its members representatives from the designers of the Tejas - the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the manufacturers of the Tejas - the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification, and IAF officers posted at ADA, the National Flight Test Centre and the Aircraft Systems and Testing Establishment.

Not in India’s interest

Highly placed sources told The Hindu that the committee felt that the Snecma offer was not in the IAF and India’s interest primarily because the French were offering a fully developed engine accepting which would “compromise and even kill the efforts, however meagre” that Indian defence laboratories had made towards developing the indigenous Kaveri engine.

The offer would also not help India get a co-designed, co-developed engine but rather an engine under a licence production arrangement, and at a great financial cost.

Explained a member of the committee: “It would be better if GTRE and other laboratories working on the Kaveri brought the engine to its logical conclusion even if it took a few more years. At least we would have mastery over the core technology. This will be better than importing the French core, paying a lifelong royalty, but saying the Kaveri is our indigenous effort. Neither the French nor anybody else will give us the know-how on the core technology.”

No production

The GTRE has been unable to come up with the engine’s core technology.

 

[nitesh]

Aeronautical Development Agency

LCA-Tejas has completed total 988 test flights successfully(TD1-233,TD2-292,PV1-182,PV2-105,PV3-116,LSP1-29,LSP2-31)

 

[nitesh]

(01-Jan-09)Tejas-LCA

Current News

LCA-Tejas has completed 989 Test Flights successfully. (01-Jan-09).

* LCA has completed 989 Test Flights successfully
(TD1-233, TD2-292,PV1-182,PV2-105,PV3-116,LSP1-30,LSP2-31).
* 30th flight of Tejas LSP1 occurred on 31st Dec 08.

 

[nitesh]

Aeronautical Development Agency
LCA-Tejas has completed total 992 test flights successfully(TD1-233,TD2-293,PV1-182,PV2-105,PV3-116,LSP1-30,LSP2-33)

 

[nitesh]

LCA to be pressed into service next year: Harinarayana

LCA to be pressed into service next year: Harinarayana

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 10: The country's indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) would be pressed into service next year, Kota Harinarayana, Fellow, National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore said here on Saturday.

"LCA produced at Bangalore had so far conducted 1000 successful test flights. IAF has already ordered 20 aircraft from the production centre in Bangalore," he said inaugurating a workshop on 'Systems approach in engineering design: national security and wealth generation' organised by the Systems Society of India, Thiruvananthapuram chapter.

Harinarayana, who was the project director of LCA in 1985, said the LCA project would lead to the indigenous production of all types of big fighter aircraft like MIG.

He said that there was need for an integrated systems approach in engineering. "As real talent was rare, we need to combine innovation, entrepreneurship, business, engineering and human values to be successful," he said.

Former VSSC director SC Gupta was honoured on the occasion. In the technical session that followed, BN Suresh, director, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, delivered a lecture on 'System engineering aspects for the development of large Systems with zero defects.'