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Updates on the Uttam AESA radar for the Tejas Mk1A. From the 16th Tejas Mk1A onwards, the Elta 2052 will be replaced by the Uttam AESA. link

IAF successfully tests Brahmos ALCM from Su-30MKI fighter off the coast of Odisha. link

It won't be just 36 for all time. But it will not be 114 + 36 either. The UAE deal gives us an idea on how expensive Rafale F4 will be. 14 billion euros for 80 Rafale F4s, which when extrapolated to 114 plus an assembly line in India would easily cross $25 billion. there is no way the GoI will...

Many reasons why. Over-promised due to a lack of understanding of how complex the development would be and then the resultant schedule lapses. The problem has always been about where to draw the line between developing technology entirely within India and where to take an off the shelf item or...

UAE just signed a contract for 80 Rafale F4 from Dassault. A huge win for Dassault and MBDA, it will sustain the Merignac supply line for more than a decade, along with the order for 30 more Rafales from Egypt. Meanwhile, the IAF is continuing to press for the 114 MRFA contest that really...

Originally Dassault offered India a triplex redundant analog FCS derived from the Mirage-2000 for the LCA. It was rejected by DRDO scientists who wanted the most modern and state of the art quadruplex fully digital FCS to be designed for the LCA. That was the reason that LM was chosen to support...

There was no bravado or fake claims about what was mentioned by the American test pilot. I will find that part of the book by Air Marshal Rajkumar, where he mentions this. One thing that every single test pilot that has flown the LCA Tejas has remarked is that it has excellent flight...

Tejas Mk1 LSP upgraded to FOC standards, taking off Img credit - Gaur.aviation From Grp Cpt HV Thakur Tejas Mk1 LSP upgraded to FOC standard Large Area Display that will be used on the LCA SPORT (LIFT) and the Tejas Mk2

It was integrated on the F-16 VISTA at Calspan. I have read about this in Air Marshal Rajkumar's book on the Tejas. It was American test pilots who remarked that the F-16 VISTA flew better when the LCA Fly By Wire FCS control laws were loaded in place of the F-16's control laws...

It included multiple items - 2 bases (Ambala and Hasimara) were set up with maintenance facilities and basing for upto 72 Rafales even though 36 were ordered. Similar thing had been done for the Mirage-2000 when it was inducted into the IAF in the 1980s at Gwalior AFS. Even to day, India is the...

These are SECOND HAND Rafales that Croatia is buying.

Tejas Mk1 FOC fighter - IAF regn number LA-5023, which means this is SP-27, the 7th FOC fighter. 9 more single seaters to go. Image courtesy- Gaur.aviation

There is a separate order being processed by the IA for AH-64E Apaches. So we may even see Apaches in the IA's camo scheme, which is different from that of the IAF. Some other pics of the LCH handed over and inducted into the IAF in their all grey camo scheme.

Just a great CGI of the Tejas Mk2 MWF Credit- Kuntal Biswas

Deccan Herald article on Tejas Mk2. - Indigenous content to go up to 70% from 62% on Mk1A - 410 private firms to supply to the Tejas Mk2 program compared to 344 for the Tejas Mk1A - Critical Design Review (CDR) was completed on Nov 15, with 20 sub-systems' CDR being done with IAF - Metal...

HAL to offer the Tejas LIFT (Lead In Fighter Trainer) to Egypt. @Gomig-21 In addition, HAL will respond to the Argentinians with an offer for the Tejas Mk1A, without 50 components that were sourced from the UK. article link and the part about offering the Tejas trainer as a LIFT to Egypt...

Tejas Mk1 image credit - Praneeth Franklin

IAF exercises with the French Armee d'le Air

Tejas Mk1 FOC taking off.. Group Captain Manish Tolani, CO of No.18 'Flying Bullets' squadron.

Tejas Mk1 FOC fighter aerobatics display at Dubai Air Show 2021