HAL Tejas | Updates, News & Discussions

[jha]

is there really need for such fights...come on yaar...today is a great day for HAL>..lets hope many such days follow...

 

[Chaluboy]

Took Place today -

Courtesy Livefist:

 

[Haanzo]

Tejas LSP-4 completes its successful maiden flight (above) at HAL airport in Bangalore on June 2. The flight lasted for 40 minutes. Gpr Capt Suneet Krishna piloted the aircraft. Interestingly, the same pilot had flown the first flight of PV-1 in 2003."This is fully equipped with IOC standards," says a thrilled ADA boss P.S. "More aircraft will join the fleet," says HAL chief Ashok Nayak. "We shall and we will," says Team NFTC.
The aircraft flew at an altitude of 11 km, went supersonic and touched 1.1 Mach speed with Test Director Gp Capt D. Chakravorty, guiding the pilot from the telemetry facility of NFTC. A chase aircraft was flown by the Chief Test Pilot of NFTC Gp Capt RR Tyagi with Wg Cdr Prabhu as the Test Director. The test flight was supervised by Air Cmde Rohit Varma, the Project Director (Flight Test) at NFTC. The flight was also witnessed by Cmde BS Prahar, NM who is the ACNS (Air) at Naval HQ.
Team LCA will now gear up for the hot-weather trials along with the first flight of LSP-5.

Tarmak007 -- An Indian Aerospace & Defence Blog With A Difference By Anantha Krishnan M.: IOC WITHIN SIGHT! Final IAF configuration LCA LSP-4 maiden 40-minute flight successful; Grp Capt Suneet Krishna goes supersonic; MMR, new avionics software, ECS

today i got buzzed by a fighter in yellow primer in b-lore ..was confused initially but here is the answer for that puzzle
now this is what im talkin about ....after going painfully slow towards the IOC this aircraft will be the closest to the production spec ....and LSP-5 will make things lot easier and definitely speed up the process and by 2011 we can achieve IOC great going HAL

this is the 10 aircraft to fly and there a re only 8 flying
TD-1, 2 (retired)
PV-1,2,3,5
LSP-1,2,3,4

JAI HIND

 

[Haanzo]

LCA Tejas finally gets Radar! - Defence Aviation

India’s most ambitious military program to build an indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) reached a major milestone on 23rd April; Friday when it first test flew a radar onboard. The LSP-3 model of the aircraft carried a radar inside its nose for the first time. This comes more than 9 years after it first took to skies. The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) described the radar as Multi-mode radar.

Defence Aviation has learnt that the radar was a Hybrid version of Israel’s Elta EL/M-2032 which is currently in service with Indian Navy on its Sea Harrier fleet. The radar is mechanically steered and most components are of Indian origin. The processor of the radar is of Israeli origin similar to that found on the EL/M-2032. There was some confusion regarding the type of radar but it has now been confirmed that it is Doppler pulse radar.

The achievement is significant as this bring the LCA-Tejas closer to receiving the Initial Operation Clearance (IOC). All the necessary tests to receive the IOC are done and now only tests related to the radar remain. It’s expected that these will be completed in 6 months and after that the LCA will enter service with the Indian Air Force (IAF) which has ordered 40 units of LCA’s in IOC configuration. The first aircraft is expected to enter service during the second quarter of 2011.

Meanwhile the LSP-4 is undergoing ground trails and will start flying in a month (Which it has today) followed by LSP-5 which should start flying a week later The recent test flight also had a new air data processor, Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) and a communication and navigation system. The flight lasted for some 52 minutes of which the LSP-3 cruised at Mach 0.8 for some 40 minutes.

The Hybrid MMR won’t be seen on the future versions of the aircraft apart from the first 40 as the Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) is working on a much advance Active Electronically Scanner Array radar (AESA) which be much superior to the Hybrid MMR. The new AESA radar is necessary for the Tejas to receive the Final operations clearance (FOC).

 

[hal-fgfa]

anyone know when TEJAS fly with Aesa radar ???

 

[nForce]

keep those birds flying!!and keep some more pics comin'

 

[Haanzo]

anyone know when TEJAS fly with Aesa radar ???

see post no-2
and guys keep in mind lsp-4 is the second aircraft to fly with the radar

 

[Vikram Morya]

am waiting for this beast to come in IAF service completely

 

[Dash]

anyone know when TEJAS fly with Aesa radar ???

That might be ready for flight testing in 2 years I guess, the program went into trouble with dissat results, foreign help is saught. By the time in 2014, when LCA MK2 will get inducted, it will fly with the AESA by india....at least there is a big possibility I say.

 

[Kinetic]

anyone know when TEJAS fly with Aesa radar ???

The first 40 Tejas will have current MMR while rest will get AESA. Its already under development by LRDE (DRDO). Project launched in November 2008. It will be fitted on the Tejas in 2014. Its an X-band AESA.

 

[indian,100%indian]

i wanna see this birds flying in air force color as soon as possible.

 

[KEETARP]

Great , just came to know about LSP4 taking to skies .
Congratz to whole of HAL/DRDO/ADA guys , you deserve a hell of party tonight .
Plz do keep final booze for LSP5 and IOC party .
And yes all Indian members out here - great feat to be proud of , enjoy

And now imp work ahead , integrating R73/Python + R77/MICA to LCA radar and complete flight testing before Dec .

 

[Chanakyaa]

I simply love its looks.
It really looks a Dangerous Interceptor.

"Dekhan Me Chotan Laage Ghaav Karee Gambhir.."

[ Looks Small Yet its Deadly ]

 

[Tejas-MkII]

http://www.lca-tejas.org/variants.html

According to this site, LSP-4 is for CMDS trial which is as much as important as Hybrid-MMR because it will test the EW system,RWR,probably R-118(RWR 1-18GHz freq -65dBM signal + MSWS(MAWS+LWS)).

And LSP-5 is for weapon testing.

Also LSP-6 for AoA

 

[sancho]

GE-414 EPE:115KN -without much change in length and specification.
Improved version of EJ:110KN.

Both are not developed and would require more time and money, what we can expect now is 98kN from the GE 414 and 90-95 kN from EJ 200.

http://www.lca-tejas.org/variants.html

According to this site, LSP-4 is for CMDS trial which is as much as important as Hybrid-MMR because it will test the EW system,RWR,probably R-118(RWR 1-18GHz freq -65dBM signal + MSWS(MAWS+LWS)).

And LSP-5 is for weapon testing.

Also LSP-6 for AoA

So what do you think, when can we expect the end of this testing and the start of the serial production?