HAL Tejas | Updates, News & Discussions

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So military induction is confirmed. Congrats.

 

[rockstarIN]

We were all young, energetic and designing FCS for Tejas was a dream: Asha Garg, Sc F

Our average age in the team then was around 30. We were the software group. We were all chasing a big dream. We would never give up, even now. The Tejas project gave us an excellent starting point to our careers. We designed with precision and tested to perfection, which gave us the confidence to sit and monitor each flight. Even now, one of us will always go and monitor in real time all the flights. We have not missed a single flight in the last 10 years (1510 sorties.) It gives the pilots a huge confidence. Many companies tried to lure us (even now), but we can never leave this program. It’s the challenge of working with LCA that keep us going. Tejas is not a project, but a way of life for us. In 10 years, we have seen 18 different versions (upgraded) of software in Tejas.

 

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I have seen how the pilots would get tense before the maiden flight: Bhatia, Sc D

I have seen many pilots come and fly the simulator at ADE. I have seen them tense before every maiden flight. I have seen them checking the fail mode, again and again. Especially, Kothiyal, before the first flight, would land up here every day to fly the simulator. He was very focused. I used to watch him very closely. And, when he made that famous statement, I knew, the worth of work. (Kothiyal had said that he felt like flying the simulator, soon after the TD-1 maiden flight.) It is a matter of great pride to the Real Time Simulator (RTS) development team that this is the only dome- based simulator currently operational in the India with almost zero downtime and close to 100% indigenous content. The ever evolving requirements of LCA thus could be easily met by indigenous RTS technology. Alternative imported systems come with lot of hidden costs and one needs to be at the mercy of the supplier to overcome cost and schedule overruns. The RTS is comparable to any other simulators elsewhere in the world be it the one used for Euro fighter-Typhoon or the F35-JSF of USA in terms of technology. With the completion of IOC /FOC for LCA and its induction into the IAF in the near future, RTS takes up the role of a full-fledged mission simulator meeting the training needs of the squadron pilots with near replica cockpit of the squadron standard aircraft.

 

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Mithai for every LCA lover

 

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Can some one post pictures or video link for IOC ceremony?

 

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India's LCA moment arrives - The Times of India

BANGALORE: At 10.30am Monday, all eyes will be trained on Bangalore's skies as India's first homegrown aircraft powers out on its maiden journey. The indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), vilified for more than 20 years, will take off on completely Indian wings and many prayers.

It will be a historic moment for the Indian aerospace industry and a proud day for aerospace city Bangalore.
Defence minister A K Antony, his ministry, the defence top brass and a battery of aerospace experts will witness the launch at the HAL airport. The aircraft, costing Rs 17,000 cr, will be flown by an IAF test pilot and is likely to be in the air for 20-35 minutes.

India's first supersonic fighter aircraft, though nurtured in Bangalore, will be flying on an American engine. Bangalore is central to its development —the aircraft was conceived, designed, developed, tested and certified by Aeronautical Development Agency, and manufactured and assembled by HAL.

 

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IAF flies homegrown Tejas fighter jet for operational clearance​

BANGALORE: India joined the select club of countries making a fighter jet from scratch when Indian Air Force (IAF) flew for the first time the lightweight indigenous multi-role Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas in a clear wintry sky for initial operational clearance (IOC).


Defence Minister A.K. Antony handed over the service certificate of the world's smallest military aircraft to Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik in the presence of top defence and government officials.


The supersonic fourth generation fighter will form a 200-strong fleet for the IAF to replace the ageing Russian-made MiG-21 fleet and increase the squadron strength as a potent strike force by 2012.

"This is the first time an indigenously designed and developed military fighter aircraft has been certified for air force operations," state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) official K. Jayaprakash Rao told IANS here.

The IOC involves specific process, including validation tests to determine the aircraft's various operational functions, including avionics, subsystems, thrust, aerodynamics, propulsion and radar.

The certificate was given by the Regional Centre for Military Airworthiness (RCMA) of the Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (Cemilac), a lab of the defence research organisation.


The fly-by-wire Tejas, which was beset chronic delays and cost overruns, has been developed by the state-run Aeronautical Defence Agency (ADA) and manufactured by the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) in Bangalore in partnership with a host of public-private aerospace firms.

The successive delays caused by multiple factors, including sanctions by the US over a decade ago against India for conducting the second nuclear test in May 1998, led the project cost to rise to a whopping Rs.5,778 crore from the initial estimate of Rs.3,300 crore in the mid-1980s.

"This is a historic day for the burgeoning Indian aerospace industry and military aviation, as IOC signifies a major milestone in the design and development of the LCA ," Rao said on the margins of the event.



"Initially pilots fly four aircraft to check all its parametres, including flight controls, Mach speed and weaponisation for final operational clearance (FOC) and induction into the fleet as frontline fighter jets ," a senior air force official told IANS.



"The majestic display of the lean-and-mean flying machine demonstrated the integration of all sensors and weapons, besides safety and reliability within the specified flight envelope," Rao noted.

The ADA and HAL conducted 1,500 test flights involving 11 aircraft, including five prototypes in the past decade, after its maiden flight Jan 4, 2001 as a technology demonstrator.

Under the limited series production, HAL is manufacturing eight aircraft for clearance flights and will take up the air force's initial order to deliver 20 jets to form the first Tejas squadron. It will be based at the Sulur air base near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

The IAF has also placed an additional order in 2010 for 20 more Tejas for the second squadron to be raised at Kayathir near Tuticorin in the southern state where the air force is setting up a new base this decade.

IAF flies homegrown Tejas fighter jet for operational clearance - The Economic Times

 

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Latest News Video : Tejas to get IOC on Jan 10

 

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Oh god ... together we made it.....
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Together we made it
We made it even though we had our backs
Up against the wall
Forever we waited

And they told us we were never gonna
Get it all ...we took it on the road..on the road...on the road...

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[IndianArmy]

So what is the designation given to LCA tejas?? HF??

 

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[PRACTICAL PATRIOT]

A.K. ANTONY said it is estimated that INDIA needs around 200 tejas MK2.

 

[PRACTICAL PATRIOT]

switch on to DD news they are showing few clippings from bangalore of the ceremony.
cmon guys switch it on dont miss it, they are showing live trial run of tejas on DD news.