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MOD asks HAL to look for export customers for Tejas MK-2 As per SHIV AROOR blog (http://livefist.blogspot.com) , Ministry of De fence has asked HAL manufacturer of Tejas MK-2 , to look for prospective Export customers for the Ingeniously manufactured Fourth generation aircraft , In next...

Price negotiations for JV for fighter engine in advanced stage India's Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) expects to close price negotiations in a month for a joint venture (JV) with French engine maker Snecma to develop gas turbine engines that would power the Indian Air...

How Tejas finally took off India's first light combat aircraft is the effort of 40 laboratories, 25 academic institutions and 300 companies.There is a good chance Bachubhai Patel's contribution to the security of the Indian skies will never be recorded. A pity, considering his role in India's...

Elated Tejas team dreaming big While the first of the Tejas light combat aircraft is yet to be delivered to IAF, an upbeat LCA team is talking of upgrading the aircraft, with the initial funding coming through for the development of LCA into a medium combat aircraft (MCA) in three-and-a-half...

IAF Chief's Wish Granted, HAL Declares LCA An Air Superiority Fighter :) It gets more bizarre. At Monday's press conference in Bangalore, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal PV Naik said he wished he had a fleet full of air superiority fighters (ASF), but the problem was funds -- here he made that...

Vital for defence ''Tejas has many features that make it contemporary.'' The initial operational clearance (IOC), given to India's first indigenously designed light combat aircraft (LCA), is an achievement for the country's defence research establishment and industry. The development of Tejas...

We will give what nation wants: HAL Says It Will Meet Targets For LCA Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will go by national consensus on the type of aircraft to be produced and manufactured by it and will meet all targets set for the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). HAL chairman Ashok Nayak had...

Landing Gear Issues Near Resolved, LCA Navy To Take Off Soon Took this photo of Commodore CD Balaji, director of the LCA Navy programme at the Tejas IOC event on Monday. He's a man under a lot of stress and it showed. He looked distracted, he paced constantly. The LCA-N missed its December...

That news is a relief. Got most worried that years of toil for a non 4th gen fighter.

Air Chief Marshal PV Naik today said, "At present it is not a fourth generation aircraft. It will come up. There are several refinements required. We need full compliance, after all we have waited a long time." http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/01/tejas-not-fourth-gen-at-present-iaf.html

LCA to be inducted next month After three decades of development, the first squadron of indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas is all set to be inducted into the Indian Air Force(IAF) next month. The first Tejas squadron will receive its initial operational clearance at a function on...

LCAs ready to be cleared for IAF induction by January India's indigenous fighter jet light combat aircraft (LCA) – Tejas — which has been in the making for over 25 years now, is finally being readied for induction in the Indian Air Force (IAF). The initial operational clearance (IOC) is...

Lets hope Dec 27 is a memorable day to us if Tejas gets its IOC .

Tejas Performs Chaff Flare Test India's Tejas Light Combat Aircraft on Dec. 2 test-fired chaff and flares from the countermeasure dispensing system (CMDS) indigenously designed and developed by Bharath Dynamics Ltd. (BDL), Hyderabad. This was part of the Tejas' ongoing sea trials at INS Hansa...

At 17k cr, Tejas cost zooms 3000% India will spend Rs 17,269 crore in the overall developmental programme of Tejas light combat aircraft, which was first approved in 1983 at a cost of Rs 560 crore to replace aging MiG-21s. This represents an almost 3000% jump, as per revised "sanctioned...

Tejas LSP-5 ready for its first flight Fifth of Tejas limited serial production aircraft LSP-5 has been cleared for its first flight , LSP-5 has cleared its high speed taxi trials this week and the aircraft has been cleared for its first flight and Weather permit will take by this weekend ...

Eurojet Reacts To Defeat, Says Decision Means Tejas Won't Get Best Engine Eurojet Gmbh has accepted defeat in the Tejas Mk-II engine competition. Just received this statement from the company: "We respect the decision taken by the Price Negotiating Committee. However, we regret that the...

India picks US engines over European for Tejas The Americans have upstaged the Europeans yet again in the tussle for the lucrative Indian defence market. The heart of Indian Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA), finally on its way to becoming operational after 27 long years, will be American...

BUZZ: Eurojet Throttles Up For Tejas? There's a lot of buzz over the Tejas Mk-II engine competition, with a flurry of reports suggesting that the Eurojet EJ200 is positioned to win the deal, and not close competitor General Electric with its F-414-400. The connection between the Tejas Mk-2...

Indian LCA Undergoing Sea Trials India's Tejas Light Combat Aircraft is currently undergoing sea trials at NAS Hansa, at Dabolim in Goa. This is part of Tejas's out-of-station flight-test plan, with pilots from the Bengaluru-based National flight Test Center performing high angle-of-attack...