LCA 'TEJAS' TO PIERCE THE SKY FOR IAF SOON

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Specifications (HAL Tejas Mk.1)[edit]

Orthographic view of Tejas

Weapon stations on Tejas

HAL Tejas carrying R-73 missileand Drop Tank.

Tejas weapon display Aero India 2011
Data from tejas.gov.in,[152] DRDO Techfocus,[153] Aero India 2011[154]

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Length: 13.20 m (43 ft 4 in)
• Wingspan: 8.20 m (26 ft 11 in)
• Height: 4.40 m (14 ft 9 in)
• Wing area: 38.4 m² (413 ft²)
• Empty weight: 6,500 kg (14,300 lb)
• Loaded weight: 9,500 kg[152] (20,944 lb)
• Max. takeoff weight: 13,200 kg[152] (29,100 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × F404-GE-IN20 turbofan
  • Dry thrust: 53.9 kN[155] (12,100 lbf)
  • Thrust with afterburner: 89.8 kN (20,200 lbf[156])
• Internal fuel capacity: 2,458 kg
• External fuel capacity: 2 x 1,200-litre drop tank at inboard, 1 x 725-litre drop tank under fuselage

Performance

• Maximum speed: Mach 1.6 (1,350 km/h) calibrated airspeed (CAS) at high altitude, reached in testing of IOC-I,[152] theoretically capable of Mach 1.8[157]
• Range: 850 km[158] (459 nmi, 528 mi)
• Combat radius: 300 km[158] (162 nmi, 186 mi)
• Ferry range: 1,700 km[159] (918 mi)
• Service ceiling: 15,000 m[152] (49,200 ft)
• Wing loading: 247 kg/m² (50.7 lb/ft²)
• Thrust/weight: 1.07[152]
• g-limits: +8/−3.5 g[152]

Armament

• Guns: 1× mounted 23 mm twin-barrel GSh-23 cannon with 220 rounds of ammunition.
• Hardpoints: 8 total: 1× beneath the port-side intake trunk for targeting pods, 6× under-wing, and 1× under-fuselage with a capacity of 4,200 kg external fuel and ordnance
• Missiles:
• Air-to-air missiles:
  • Python 5
  • Derby[163]
  • Astra
  • Vympel R-77
  • Vympel R-73
• Air-to-surface missiles:
  • Kh-59ME (TV guided standoff Missile)
  • Kh-59MK (Laser guided standoff Missile)
• Anti-ship missiles
  • Kh-35
  • Kh-31
• Bombs:
  Source:[160]
  • KAB-1500L laser-guided bombs
  • GBU-16 Paveway II
  • FAB-250
  • ODAB-500PM fuel-air explosives
  • ZAB-250/350 incendiary bombs
  • BetAB-500Shp powered concrete-piercing bombs
  • FAB-500T dumb bombs
  • OFAB-250-270 dumb bombs
  • OFAB-100-120 dumb bombs
  • RBK-500 cluster bomb stake
• Others:[160]
  • S-8 rocket pods
  • Bofors 135 mm rocket
  • Drop tanks for ferry flight/extended range/loitering time.
  • LITENING targeting pod[161][162]

See also[edit]

 

[Otocal]

LCA Tejas will not be operational before 2020. Production rate is 4/year.

You need planes to operationalise a squadron.

You can't send over blueprints and make a squadron.

Only comparison of Tejas to FC-1 is FC-1 flying at mach 1 and a ADA scientist throwing a blueprint in shape of a paper plane at distance of 2-3 meters.

Best way to have a Tejas vs FC-1 competition is to designate the HAL/ADA Laboratory in Bangalore as an IAF base and then invite the Pakistanis to open a PAF base in the same laboratory then the FC-1 and Tejas can face off face to face.

 

[sathya]

JF 17 doesn't have trAiner that's creating problems to replace mirage trainers..

 

[Mughal-Prince]

like JF-17 ......

Girtay hain shah sawar hi maidan-e-jung main,
Woh tifl kia giray ga jo ghutno kay bal chalay.

 

[Mughal-Prince]

JF 17 doesn't have trAiner that's creating problems to replace mirage trainers..

No sathya it's not creating any problem for pilot conversion because it's an all out easy to fly machine but definitely its creating problems in foreign sales because this single seat thing may suited us but not to others.

 

[fatman17]

what does 'soon' mean in the LCA context....20 years!!!

 

[Mughal-Prince]

yes , you J-17 fly many times longer then armed F-16 also......lol thats the most laughable thing PAK said about JF-17... 9th wonder of world is JF-17 ... dude put in place in record book ....

Indeed because it's our own aircraft and multi times cheap to fly and over all other cost rest we don't have any problems with spares and others so no matter how much hours we log onto it we can recover the hardware unlike F-16 spares and cost issues :p

 

[sathya]

No sathya it's not creating any problem for pilot conversion because it's an all out easy to fly machine but definitely its creating problems in foreign sales because this single seat thing may suited us but not to others.

Which aircraft are you using for Advanced jet training ?

what does 'soon' mean in the LCA context....20 years!!!

even Rafael had to wait for 10 years..
and still not 100% guaranteed..

 

[Stephen Cohen]

what does 'soon' mean in the LCA context....20 years!!!

Actually the interest in LCA has substantially increased only after April 2010
when LCA finally got a RADAR ie LSP 3 model of LCA

Before that even we Indians did not care about LCA and thought that
LCA project has been given up

Now it is just SIX more months

 

[Shariq786]

JF 17 doesn't have trAiner that's creating problems to replace mirage trainers..

satya the countries who have already operated F-16 aren't having a problem flying this jet because JF-17 is a lighter and advanced version of F-16 you can say these jets are little brothers to F-16 !!!

 

[jarves]

what does 'soon' mean in the LCA context....20 years!!!

Tejas is so late that even Pakistani trolls are tired of trolling on this topic

 

[Mughal-Prince]

Which aircraft are you using for Advanced jet training ?
and still not 100% guaranteed..

Well Sathya its not about AJT its about pilot conversion and for this purpose PAF is using simulators as you have heard an attrition of JFT earlier it was due to some device fitted to collect data in order to create even more precise simulators for pilot conversion because these aircrafts were taking place of current flying fleet and pilots which will be moved to these machines are already have a lot of hours flying hours in their log like A5 Fantan which were our nuclear capable attack aircrafts now been retired from service and replaced by JFT. In near future we will see JFT-B series aircraft a twin seater be used as FCU, fighter Conversion Unit or a OCU, Operational Conversion Unit.

Now about AJT PAF is using FT-5 and K8 for this purpose and I believe FT-5 are going to be phased out soon and may be replaced with K8 or may be with L-15 in future.

 

[Storm Force]

Jf17 is a half way house between a f7 and the f16c.

It has no Hms or refueling probe.

It has a powerful but gas guzzling smokey engine that requires high maintenance from Russia.

It lacks ldp ie laser pod and block one cannot use bvr missles yet until avionics upgrade.

Production has been slow with only forty fighters delivered in nearly five years.

Pak airforce are starting to look for more used f16 as they wait for block two thunder arrival