jamesbaldwin
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It will be deleted for sure, what many of my fellow Indian bros are missing during the celebrations, is the fact that this is nothing else than an IAF twin seat LCA with LEVCONS and new gears. It has no hook, airframe strengthenings? It also has not the changes of LSP 7 that recently made it's first flight (check the APU).
This TD might be used for skijump tests from INS HANSA, testing LEVCONS and probably even basic gear tests, but is not build to test arrested carrier landings yet. So we will see more prototypes / TDs with other changes later and this doesn't really mean much (other than some PR for DRDO and ADA, guess who were the first to shake the hand of the pilot).
A bit of a non point really because inherently the N-LCA design is BASED on the IAF LCA design so there is going to be an incredibly high degree of commanlity with N-LCA having a few design changes. NP1 had LEVCON, Strengthened landing gear and strengthened airframe the only thing not present was the tail hook which was not needed in this test as it made a normal landing assisted b y brake chute.