ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

[cobra commando]

Tejas in Bahrain skies

 

[tejas warrior]

A decent quality video :

 

[HariPrasad-1]

Vertical climb was first demonstrated by F-15. Lots of aircraft are capable of it. Premium among them is F-22. SU-35,Mig-29, Typhoon..all can do vertical climb.

I know that man. I said it is new for Tejas. I have never seen tejas doing that. All High T/W ratio aircraft can do that. The planes you mentioned are very high T/W ratio aircrafts.

 

[HariPrasad-1]

I am getting excited with the thought that if our bird can perform this sort of maneuvers in at this stage than what it shall do with 500 kg lower weight and 8% aerodynamic improvement. I believe it shall be a totally different plane. By that time we shall have increased AOA by further 2* and g limit by further 0.5 to 8.5. As kota Harinarayan had rightly said, China can not make such sophisticated plane. Porkis withdrew their Junk fighter to avoid humiliation.

 

[tejas warrior]

Tejas doing aerial ballet in Bahrain air show. (Good quality video)

 

[silicon3]

Tejas doing aerial ballet in Bahrain air show. (Good quality video)

cheers...good video..clean and crisp display......any idea on the feed back from neutral watchers or from the international media?

 

[ersakthivel]

http://tarmak007.blogspot.in/

A vertical loop in 16 seconds(8-55 seconds),

A horizontal loop in 20-22 seconds, plus a negative G turn at 8-26 seconds

 

[Abhishek Shrivastava]

Excited to see tejas performing today, Can tejas perform Cobra..?

 

[AbRaj]

It is DFI. IDF is another Indian Forum.
IDF looks beautiful and fascinating like Chinese Forum.

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[tejas warrior]

Excited to see tejas performing today, Can tejas perform Cobra..?

Nope. Only Su27 and further developed fighters can do. (Not even F-16, F-18, Rafael etc..)

 

[tejas warrior]

cheers...good video..clean and crisp display......any idea on the feed back from neutral watchers or from the international media?

Don't trust all paid International Media.. Even Indian media will be flooded by paid articles for all negative news.

 

[pmaitra]

Full-scale production of LCA Tejas by next year: Manohar Parrikar

"As per my primary report, it is appreciated by other countries who are interested... By next year, we are starting full-scale production," he told reporters at the NCC Republic Day camp here.

The training of IAF pilots on LCA has already commenced.

 

[AbRaj]

http://tarmak007.blogspot.in/

A vertical loop in 16 seconds(8-55 seconds),

A horizontal loop in 20-22 seconds, plus a negative G turn at 8-26 seconds

Excellent video, fantastic.............

 

[tejas warrior]

Some of tweets from Saurav jha

 

[tejas warrior]

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[kr9]

Nope. Only Su27 and further developed fighters can do. (Not even F-16, F-18, Rafael etc..)

I believe some western planes can perform the cobra - although not to the angle of attack (AOA) as achieved by the Russian fighters.
F-14s could do the manoeuvre at AOA <= 90 degrees.
Russians however could do it up to 105/110 degrees.

And Tejas is also designed to be aerodynamically unstable - so it should be able to (I think).

 

[punjab47]

Do you think Tejas has low # hardpoints? Sukhoi 30 has 12 rafale & 35 14, f15 has 16 after upgrade otherwise 8 normally. Maybe mk2 iaf version will improve or allow higher payload.

Kaveri only got to 81,

http://googleweblight.com/?lite_url...456754&sig=ALL1Aj7lbrxaK1k-iH6mFh3sEksoQIFEkg

However, the 404 had to be modified to reach 85 so we don't know if politics went into the decision. Seems more that they wanted Tejas out quickly & getting kaveri into production would have taken few more years.

Probably k9+ will be 70kn for ucav k10 110 for amca. Kaveri actually has higher non afterburner thrust than 404.

Also as navy was primary backed, kaveri was not enough for mk2 naval. Kaveri is still a good engine no doubt.

As saurav Jha said, would still consider the project a success but, better not to brag until we're 1.5x ahead of #2 like before 1857.

 

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