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Air & Cosmos on LCA, google translated
L'armée de l'Air indienne réceptionne un premier Tejas de série - Air et Cosmos
The Indian Air Force receives first series of Tejas
At Last! The Indian Air Force has taken delivery of 15 January 2015, the first single-engine fighter LCA (Light Combat Aircraft) Tejas series. The device was produced locally by HAL (Hindustant Aeronuatics). Launched in the 1980s, the Tejas flew for the first time in 2001. Since the program has accumulated many delays.
The first fighter delivered to the Indian Army, the LCA-SP1 was released in September 2014. Factory He subsequently evaluated by the services of the Department of Indian defense. He received the qualification "Initial Operational Clearance II" and should be declared fully operational by the end of 2015...
...The difficulties of this project wanted "most indian possible," illustrate those of the country to conduct the moment such programs without foreign aid. If the DRDO and HAL have managed to limit the external supply some aircraft systems, they didn't had to resolve to adopt a US-IN20 engine 404 GE, General Electric (F414-INS6 for the Mark II). A place devoted to the origin of the Indian GTX-35VS Kaveri engine, developed by one of the laboratories of DRDO. It also knows heavy delays.
L'armée de l'Air indienne réceptionne un premier Tejas de série - Air et Cosmos