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You mean ADA/DRDO.LCA Tejas is developed by HAL.
Get your facts straight before acting like a moron
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You mean ADA/DRDO.LCA Tejas is developed by HAL.
Get your facts straight before acting like a moron
You mean ADA/DRDO.
Nodal agency is ADA, HAL is manufacturing agency.And 30-40 other agencies.
However HAL is the main/nodal agency.
Ministry of Defence - Press Release dated 20-Dec-2013
LCA Tejas is capable of flying non- stop to destinations over 1700 km away (Ferry Range). It's Radius of Action is upto 500 km depending upon the nature and duration of actual combat.
Hi guys,
do not enter into this BS discussion. I have burnt my fingers by entering into one more such BS discussion of LCA weight. There are lots of variable and subjective interpretations. You won't reach to any conclusion. Only remember that it can travel 1700 km without ANY EXTERNAL FUEL. It is a decent range.
1700km? Highly unlikely even with clean config not even the cannon/bullets, mach 0.7-0.8?, altitude of no wartime purpose?
1700km? Highly unlikely even with clean config
LCA Tejas is capable of flying non- stop to destinations over 1700 km away (Ferry Range). It's Radius of Action is upto 500 km depending upon the nature and duration of actual combat.
The range will remain a mystery for some time, because there are a lot of different specs out there, from different sources, in different times and none of them actually tells us for what config or role that range is meant to be.
HAL and IAF specboards for example stated 300Km combat range, while the last official press release stated:
Ferry Range however should include maximum fuel tanks and then 1700Km would be awfully low, so there must be something around this figure that we don't know yet. The combat range as well differs and most importanty does not state under which condition. Saab for example states a combat range of up to 1500Km for the Gripen E, but also a CAP combat range of 900Km with 2h on station, which is roughly 40% less.
No lets assume LCA total combat range is 500Km - 40% = 300Km. So does the HAL figure speak about CAP combat range with a certain time on station? Possible, but we don't know for sure, so until we get more reliable specs of the production version and know for what conditions these range figures are, it will be difficult to compare it.
No it has that potential. LCA had flown from Banglore to Jamnagar and subsequently performed some maneuvers as a part of trial in single fill of kerosene without any external fuel tank. It has an envying fuel efficiency as quoted by one scientist.