HAL Tejas | Updates, News & Discussions-[Thread 2]

[mirage]

Still slow. Chinese J-20 was inducted roughly at the same time as Tejas. Both are in LRIP mode. Two J-20s were delivered, just as Tejas. Two new just rolled out of the assembly line and took flight.

hehe , chinese J-20 .

 

[RPK]

The beauty of the Cranked Double Delta Planform

 

[R!CK]

The LCA Naval Protype - NP-1 Prior to Touchdown after the Maiden Successful Ski Jump in December 2014 from the Shore Based Test Facility in Goa with the Indian Navy Helicopter Chetak next to the Runway.

Source: #TejasOfficialArchive #Tejas_LCA #NFTC#PhotoIndia #IADN

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[R!CK]

Tejas passed the flight flutter test diving from an altitude of four kilometers to almost sea level at 900 feet (270 m). Tejas recorded a speed of over 1350 km/h.

Source: #TejasOfficialArchive #Tejas_LCA #NFTC#PhotoIndia #IADN

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[RPK]

LCA Tejas at Goa: Sea level and weapon trials at Goa back in Nov 2010
INS Hansa is located at Dabolim in Goa and was commissioned on 05 September 1961. The base is home to the Indian Navy's premier air squadrons. This naval air station, which serves as the Indian Navy's largest airbase, has grown to become a full-fledged airfield that handles both domestic as well as international flights round the clock.
Both the Air Force & Naval LCA undergo important Trials in Goa from time to time which is essential in getting the Aircrafts ready for the Final Versions.

 

[ashok321]

India’s elite indigenous fighter jet crosses a major benchmark this week ahead of being deemed combat ready providing the country with a masterful fighter jet at a fraction of the cost of Western fighter jets.

India entered a new era in its budding arms manufacturing industry this week when the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) completed its maiden flight without incident ahead of the vaunted fighter jet being deemed ready for combat applications giving the Indian people a potentially major new industry and saving the country’s taxpayers a massive amount of money on providing for their national defense.


The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) third series production of the Tejas LCA, nicknamed Tejas-SP3, completed its first maiden flight in Bangalore on September 28 with the sortie lasting 15 minutes during which time the performance of the aircraft was tested.

"The flight was restricted to just 15 minutes due to low-hanging clouds, but it was enough to profile it in detail," said Gopal Suttar, spokesman for Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL).

The fighter jet awaits two more test flights in the coming days before the aircraft will be transferred to the possession of the Indian Air Force with the Tejas-SP3 expected to join two earlier Tejas LCA in the Indian Air Force during this year’s 84th Air Force Day parade on October 8th just outside of New Delhi. Western defense analysts have largely criticized the Tejas LCA as inferior to its Western counterparts citing over 50 flaws in the fighter jet discovered upon analysis – a number that seems overwhelming but is far from unusual for high-end aircraft following production.

The Tejas LCA, however, flies at a swift clip of 1,370 MPH (2204kmh) with advanced thrust shifting capabilities making the jet an elite aircraft for dogfights and its small size provides it will stealth-like characteristics with a reduced radar signature and the jet costs only $33 million per unit compared to $40-50 million for F16s or $100 million for the Rafale.

India also hopes that an indigenous fighter jet will allow the Indian Air Force to modify the jet to its specifics providing it a practical edge in the air unlike with the purchase of Western fighter jets which not only payments to foreign defense contractors but also often slow down repairs and modifications.

The on board technologies on the Tejas LCA include Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missile firing capability along with a highly advanced radar system providing for the system to put the nearly three tons of weapons it is certified to carry – including laser-guided 500kg (1,102lbs) bombs and short-range R-73 missiles – to full use.

https://sputniknews.com/military/20161002/1045930017/india-tejas-fighter-jet-maiden.html

 

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[Carbonated]

Indian paying billions for 4th Gen fighter Rafale while claiming 35 year old design is 4.5 Gen

@Windjammer @MastanKhan @Indus Falcon

 

[Zee-shaun]

When did it become gen 4.5 fighter?
Some vedic technology integrated into it already?
Should we call it Hanuman Tejaj now?

 

[Soulspeek]

No. We will call it Al-Buraq. Happy naa?

When did it become gen 4.5 fighter?
Some vedic technology integrated into it already?
Should we call it Hanuman Tejaj now?

 

[ranadd]

Indian paying billions for 4th Gen fighter Rafale while claiming 35 year old design is 4.5 Gen

@Windjammer @MastanKhan @Indus Falcon

I know right.

Jokes aside, a wonderful answer from someone else regarding what is generations. And its 26 years.

Fourth-generation jet fighter is a general classification of jet fighters in service from approximately 1980 to present day, and represent design concepts of the 1970s.

Fourth-generation designs are heavily influenced by lessons learned from the previous generation of combat aircraft. Long-range air-to-air missiles, originally thought to make dogfighting obsolete, proved less influential than expected, precipitating a renewed emphasis on maneuverability.
During the period in question, maneuverability was enhanced by relaxed static stability, made possible by introduction of the fly-by-wire(FBW) flight control system (FLCS), which in turn was possible due to advances in digital computers and system integration techniques. Analog avionics, required to enable FBW operations, became a fundamental requirement and began to be replaced by digital flight control systems in the latter half of the 1980s.
The further advance of microcomputers in the 1980s and 1990s permitted rapid upgrades to the avionics over the lifetimes of these fighters, incorporating system upgrades such as active electronically scanned array (AESA), digital avionics buses and Infra-red search and track (IRST).

Due to the dramatic enhancement of capabilities in these upgraded fighters and in new designs of the 1990s that reflected these new capabilities, the US Government has taken to using the designation 4.5 generation to refer to these later designs. This is intended to reflect a class of fighters that are evolutionary upgrades of the 4th generation incorporating integrated avionics suites, advanced weapons efforts to make the (mostly) conventionally designed aircraft nonetheless less easily detectable, and trackable as a response to advancing missile and radar technology. Inherent airframe design features exist, and include masking of turbine-blades and application of advanced sometimes radar-absorbent materials, but not the distinctive low-observable configurations of the latest aircraft, referred to as fifth-generation fighters or aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II.

 

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Indian paying billions for 4th Gen fighter Rafale while claiming 35 year old design is 4.5 Gen

@Windjammer @MastanKhan @Indus Falcon

When did it become gen 4.5 fighter?
Some vedic technology integrated into it already?
Should we call it Hanuman Tejaj now?

It is only a 4th generation aircraft. Please excuse our media who can barely make out the difference between fixed wing aircraft and rotor-crafts.

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[zambino]

When did it become gen 4.5 fighter?
Some vedic technology integrated into it already?
Should we call it Hanuman Tejaj now?

Just like your roohani taaqat wala jf17blunder is comparable to rafale like that

 

[EAK]

Just like your roohani taaqat wala jf17blunder is comparable to rafale like that

how can our JF be better then your .. Hanumani Laraku vimaan.. :::: Courtesy part indian defence minister..

 

[zambino]

It is better than rafale leave tejas. U forgot your Chinese made jets also have mard e momin tag. AndI think u forgot 1jf thunder=10tejas