USAF chief General Goldfein to fly in LCA Tejas tomorrow

[YeBeWarned]

All the best

 

[Laozi]

US Air Force chief to fly India's LCA Tejas
By Pradip R. Sagar | February 02, 2018

LCA Tejas, developed by HAL, is claimed to be nearly 60 per cent indigenous | Reuters
Chief of United State Air Force will fly India's indeginously build Light Combat Aircraft Tejas on Saturday. This will be the first time, the head of a foreign military is flying Tejas and the move will somehow silence the critics of home grown fighter jet.

General David L. Goldfein, chief of Staff of the US Air Force, who is on his visit to India, will take a sortie in LCA Tejas from Jodhpur Air Force station on Saturday morning. Goldfein along with General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, Commander of US Pacific Air Force, landed in New Delhi on Thursday to boost military ties between the two nations and already had several rounds of discussion with key functionaries of IAF, including Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhano at Air Force headquarters.

Incidentally, it is the first time top most military commanders of the US have arrived India together. In November, Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen took a half-an-hour long sortie in Tejas from Kalaikunda airbase and hailed the aircraft as “excellent and very impressive”.

LCA Tejas, an over three-decade-old project, is a single-seat, single-engine multi-role light fighter aircraft, which is yet to be combat ready as the Final Operation Clearance (FOC) that certifies a jet a battle worthy, is expected to be delivered by the end of this year to HAL, the manufacturer of the Tejas. Though in December, IAF has formally placed order for 83 Tejas aircraft with HAL, the force had sought some modifications in the aircraft.

IAF, while pitching for a case to have single engine fighter jet, is believed to have informed the government that Tejas is not enough to protect Indian skies with its limited capabilities. IAF is believed to have told the the ministry of defence that the "endurance" of Tejas in combat is just about 59 minutes and can carry a pay-load of about three tons, which are much below the capability of other single-engine jets available in the global market.

Besides, IAF also made some reservations over the maintenance cost of Tejas. It is learnt that maintenance cost of Tejas is high as fighter needs 20 hours of servicing for every hour of flying. In order to maintain its operational effectiveness and depleting combat fleet, IAF is all set for global tenders for the single engine fighters.

LCA Tejas, developed by HAL, is claimed to be nearly 60 per cent indigenous. It has the fly by wire, state of the art open architecture computer for avionics and better weapon and combat capability.

http://www.theweek.in/news/india/us-air-force-chief-to-fly-india-lca-tejas.html

 

[Trango Towers]

JF 17 has been operational for more than a decade and also deployed in active combat role how many combat mission Teja has flown?


looks like Muricans are going to buy teja

We hope the Indian airforce accepts it in droves. Yes jf17 is crap in comparison.

Goldfein a nice Jewish name isn't it.

Nothing to do with American masters in tel Aviv then

 

[Hallian_Khan]

ah bail mje maar... remined me of Solomon(P.B.U.H)'s story in which man asked him to take him to hisndustan....

 

[Liquidmetal]

he will be shitting himself throughout the entire flight, which i suppose is the best way to respect india for the toilet it is.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Is it true that the flight computer aboard the Tejas has an accent Problem?

Like communications

How come??? It introduces itself as Bob!!!!!

It's a great thing about the Indians - they love to introduce their products to the outsiders!!! For example, during the Indian festivals in my office, they insist on feeding samosas, sweets etc. to all the colleagues!!! Looks like the pre condition for the military chiefs visiting India is to get into Tejas or Ahirent or Arjun etc....

 

[Roybot]

So many Pakistani asses on fire in this thread.

How come??? It introduces itself as Bob!!!!!

It's a great thing about the Indians - they love to introduce their products to the outsiders!!! For example, during the Indian festivals in my office, they insist on feeding samosas, sweets etc. to all the colleagues!!! Looks like the pre condition for the military chiefs visiting India is to get into Tejas or Ahirent or Arjun etc....

Strange you didn't throw in the usual random Turkish word to prove that you are a Turk and not a Pakistani masquerading as one

 

[Malik Usman]

Actually USAF Chief showed a great deal of interest in Tejas and is very eager to fly in it.

And he is also going to put order for 100 of them for USAF....

 

[jetray]

So many Pakistani asses on fire in this thread.

well seems they are unhappy that they only get unmanned things flying over their country.

It is pretty stupid on our part to let some one from foreign country fly the aircraft given that we trying to buy their systems. It will only give them edge while bidding for the contract for single engine fighters. India should stop this ridiculous practice of giving joy rides to foreign ppl. This one-upmanship between DRDO & IAF is really getting dirty.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Funny so many are joking while having that junk j17 as their top end fighters, while Tejas and potentially their top dog(f16) could be India's low tier wing.

 

[hussain0216]

Actually USAF Chief showed a great deal of interest in Tejas and is very eager to fly in it.

Maybe the USAF is going to place a order for LCA

Congratulations to india ahead of time!!

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Jf 17 crashed one or two times but Hal tejas record is better. So don't worry...

JF has over 50,000 hour sorties , combat operations and international airshows and export orders with over 100+ units in PAF service.. vs 1 crash (a bird hit).

Trailer jets dont..

 

[MimophantSlayer]

@Water Car Engineer

Some pakistanis still believe Tejas has not even been inducted.

So it is completely understandable when suddenly a news like this hits and they start flipping out.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Funny so many are joking while having that junk j17 as their top end fighters, while Tejas and potentially their top dog(f16) could be India's low tier wing.

And in reality.. so called SU-30s and mig-29s are marred by non availability and even crashes.

While low tier migs keep claiming pilots lives earning the magnificent title of “flying coffins”...

Wah ...

@Water Car Engineer

Some pakistanis still believe Tejas has not even been inducted.

So it is completely understandable when suddenly a news like this hits and they start flipping out.

2 unit squadron created for testing and development lol.

 

[hussain0216]

Some pakistanis still believe Tejas has not even been inducted.

Amazing, how many units do you have?