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SOURCE: RAUNAK KUNDE / NEWS BEAT / IDRW.ORG
Chandraker Bharti, Joint Secretary (Aerospace) while speaking to the media said that Final Operational Clearance (FOC) of Tejas MK-1 will be completed this year and also confirmed that many countries are interested in the purchase of the aircraft but refused to disclose the names.
According to recent media reports, Demonstration of the Mid-Air Refueling Capacity is only major requirement left before Tejas MK-1 will be granted FOC and plans are in place to start trials after June this year.
According to unconfirmed reports, IAF and DRDO have agreed to delink Mid-Air Main Gsh-23 gun firing trial, even though it already has cleared ground trials many years ago, holding back trials or realisation of the capacity is more to do with refinement and upgradation rather than due to technical issues with the system.
HAL and Private Players involved in the production of LCA-Tejas are planning to ramp up production rate of the aircraft from 16 to 18 by 2020-21 and thereafter to 24 from 2021-22 after receiving instructions from Defence ministry.
LCA-Tejas Squadron ” Flying Daggers”, No. 45 Squadron is already nearing 1000 sorties and reports of 100 manhours required for each 1-hour sortie of the LCA-Tejas according to IAF Sources have been aggregated and even within limited aircraft at disposal, Squadron has been training more pilots who are moved to the squadron without any difficulties and operational availability of the aircraft is comparable to the European aircraft fleet in IAF .
Yet to be verified reports also suggest that IAF has agreed to drop mandatory Final Operational Clearance (FOC) certification required before inducting Tejas MK1-A and MK-2 aircraft under development and will accept the Global practice of inducting fighter aircraft after they meet IOC Cerftication.
Tejas MK1-A and MK-2 will be in IOC configuration before they even make their first flight and once trials are conclusive and IOC Certification granted, aircraft will move to production. this will help reduce the turnaround time of development, while FOC will be an on-going process which will continue to seek improvements and upgrades while they are inducted,
http://idrw.org/tejas-mk-1-to-get-foc-this-year-a-report/
Chandraker Bharti, Joint Secretary (Aerospace) while speaking to the media said that Final Operational Clearance (FOC) of Tejas MK-1 will be completed this year and also confirmed that many countries are interested in the purchase of the aircraft but refused to disclose the names.
According to recent media reports, Demonstration of the Mid-Air Refueling Capacity is only major requirement left before Tejas MK-1 will be granted FOC and plans are in place to start trials after June this year.
According to unconfirmed reports, IAF and DRDO have agreed to delink Mid-Air Main Gsh-23 gun firing trial, even though it already has cleared ground trials many years ago, holding back trials or realisation of the capacity is more to do with refinement and upgradation rather than due to technical issues with the system.
HAL and Private Players involved in the production of LCA-Tejas are planning to ramp up production rate of the aircraft from 16 to 18 by 2020-21 and thereafter to 24 from 2021-22 after receiving instructions from Defence ministry.
LCA-Tejas Squadron ” Flying Daggers”, No. 45 Squadron is already nearing 1000 sorties and reports of 100 manhours required for each 1-hour sortie of the LCA-Tejas according to IAF Sources have been aggregated and even within limited aircraft at disposal, Squadron has been training more pilots who are moved to the squadron without any difficulties and operational availability of the aircraft is comparable to the European aircraft fleet in IAF .
Yet to be verified reports also suggest that IAF has agreed to drop mandatory Final Operational Clearance (FOC) certification required before inducting Tejas MK1-A and MK-2 aircraft under development and will accept the Global practice of inducting fighter aircraft after they meet IOC Cerftication.
Tejas MK1-A and MK-2 will be in IOC configuration before they even make their first flight and once trials are conclusive and IOC Certification granted, aircraft will move to production. this will help reduce the turnaround time of development, while FOC will be an on-going process which will continue to seek improvements and upgrades while they are inducted,
http://idrw.org/tejas-mk-1-to-get-foc-this-year-a-report/
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