Workmanship on HAL Tejas Still Poor

[Windjammer]

These latest image taken recently at Dubai Air Show indicate that the workmanship and finishing on Indian HAL Tejas Fighter aircraft still remains very average. Remember this was the show piece aircraft on static display which any potential customer would have looked at closely.
Credit : Rana Suhaib.

 

[Type59]

Got an American powerplant, which is important for safety. Rough appearance is acceptable.

 

[Windjammer]

Got an American powerplant, which is important for safety. Rough appearance is acceptable.

So suddenly Russian engines aren't safe.
Next you will say the Duct tape like on the MiG-21s is also acceptable.

 

[Mohsin A]

Nice and flaky just like a samosa

 

[N.Siddiqui]

No wonder not a single country buying the 'cut cornered' Tejas...

Don't know it is due to the fact that in India the 'reserved' gets the perks and jobs and not deserved...talking about the 50% or more quotas for the lower castes. Insane anomaly...

 

[Ali_Baba]

I would agree - the manufacturing is very poor - esp when you consider how long HAL has been making jets and the exposure they have to western manufacturing tools and tech transfer that PAC can only dream of..

No wonder the French did not want to be liable for the workmanship of Indians in the local manufacture of the Rafale in India.

 

[Windjammer]

This was the finishing on an earlier model and the bottom picture Taken recently shows the gun port and surrounding are still like patch work.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Tejas needed many a times more lemons and coconuts to make them safe and free from bad omen...we all know the safety record of IAF, the worst in the world...

But since nobody is bying'em pilots are relatively safe, talking about other air forces.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

This was the finishing on an earlier model and the bottom picture Taken recently shows the gun port and surrounding are still like patch work.

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These are damning close up pics...there were news that a Pakistani group from PAF were in Dubai and meeting the Indians there...and the Indian media was happily reporting about it and bragging as usual.

OOps!

Pakistani Military delegation meets LCA-Tejas at Dubai – Indian Defence Research Wing

idrw.org

That heartburn is showing here!!!

Heartburn in Pakistan as India's Tejas steals the limelight at Dubai Air Show

The presence of the LCA Tejas aircraft, developed by India, at the Dubai Air Show has not gone down well with a section of the Pakistani society.

www.timesnownews.com

 

[Imran Khan]

wall putty seriously

 

[Bossman]

Their panels are not interchangeable between aircrafts so much for standardization of work and quality control

 

[alikazmi007]

 

[cloud4000]

Just look how long it took to develop the Tejas. It also shows how bad India's defense PSUs are performing. Pakistan not only incorporated the JF-17s but are exporting the aircraft while the Tejas still flounder.

 

[PakFactor]

The farmer renting my parents agriculture land did a better job welding the tewel

 

[Flash_Ninja]

Probably just a rush job so they have something to show at the airshow, because that looks like it would crumble under extreme conditions.