LCA TEJAS MK1 & MK1A: News and Discussion

[Bleh]

Today's Airforce Day event with 4ton load mounted.

Durdardhan dumbfucks giving you built in blackout feel at high-Gs...

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

As I have repeated lots of times before, keep your Purchase discussion out of this damn thread. It's purely for Tejas Technical details and stuff.

 

[HariPrasad-1]

Sri Lanka is out of race. They preferred to update their existing aircraft.
I have my doubts viz-a-viz Bangladesh as F-16 is being also offered. It will be difficult for Tejas to compete against F-16.
Chinese are also making a push for JF-17. Lets see how things play out.

Highly unlikely. Currently we can't afford to antagonize British. Our JV with RR is more important for AMCA's engine.

Officially not yet.

F16 costs double the price of Tejas. Mig 35 are cheap but high operating and maintenance cost.

 

[Vamsi]

 

[Saichand K]

kaun bhai?

Abhijit iyer mitra and Pravin Swahney

 

[Dark Sorrow]

F16 costs double the price of Tejas. Mig 35 are cheap but high operating and maintenance cost.

Buying F-16 comes with American blessing something Tejas can't offer, countries like Bangladesh will probably go for F-16 over Tejas as they are dependent on US for exports. I like to see how JF-17 plays out. It will be PRC vs US.

 

[kamaal]

Buying F-16 comes with American blessing something Tejas can't offer, countries like Bangladesh will probably go for F-16 over Tejas as they are dependent on US for exports. I like to see how JF-17 plays out. It will be PRC vs US.

F16 also comes with threat of sanctions and bullying. Tejas comes with dark future and inconsistencies. Jf17 comes with unreliability and crashes. BD should choose wisely, according to their ability to tolerate above problems.

 

[fire starter]

 

[Dark Sorrow]

F16 also comes with threat of sanctions and bullying. Tejas comes with dark future and inconsistencies. Jf17 comes with unreliability and crashes. BD should choose wisely, according to their ability to tolerate above problems.

From BD point of view Tejas also comes with threat of sanctions as it uses US built engines and several LRU that are imported from west.

 

[Lost user]

How many aircrafts completed? Any first flights happening..?

 

[SajeevJino]

tell that joker , you can form a squad in IAF even with one single fighter jet and tell the world that squadron is fully operational and deployed

 

[Bleh]

How many aircrafts completed? Any first flights happening..?

Either 9 or 10... Apparently the were soft delivered. Final delivery will be after Astra & SAAW integration.
Until then the squadron is tied to Sulur. Parts of IOC squadron were at TACDE, don't know what their doing now. Mostly standardised to FOC level. All BVR capable

 

[arnab]

Note 3 droptanks on the Tejas...

if you see closely...you can see halwai racing LCA in his Merc on the ground...LCA loses once again!

 

[ManhattanProject]

tell that joker , you can form a squad in IAF even with one single fighter jet and tell the world that squadron is fully operational and deployed

I think we all know who is the real joker here.

 

[Bleh]

Searching for the IAF Day display, I found one from Srilanka one i hasn't seen before... A work of art (edit can't be seen directly tho)!

 

[ersakthivel]

what would be more interesting though is, under what climatic test conditions other fighters achieve 9G , & top speed.

because most MNCs specify their top specs at certain temp and certain atmospheric conditions,

It remains to be seen whether ADA FOC fr Tejas topspecs is

given under the international standard test atmospheric conditions

or typical indian operating atmospheric conditions

because india has generally high humidity and high temp conditions compared to the world, which has a negative effect on engine peak thrust range ,and drag.

 

[Chinmoy]

Either 9 or 10... Apparently the were soft delivered. Final delivery will be after Astra & SAAW integration.
Until then the squadron is tied to Sulur. Parts of IOC squadron were at TACDE, don't know what their doing now. Mostly standardised to FOC level. All BVR capable

Going against the previous practice, IAF would induct the whole bunch of 14 aircraft at a single shot this time. 13th aircraft assembly has been completed. Induction would be completed within this fiscal year.

 

[Spitfire9]

13th aircraft assembly has been completed. Induction would be completed within this fiscal year.

Very good news.for FOC

I forget, when are the 8 trainers due? Are they building them at the moment? Some stations on the assembly lines must surely be free . I presume they will have cleared the lines before Mk1A hits the lines.

 

[chetan_chpd]

Going against the previous practice, IAF would induct the whole bunch of 14 aircraft at a single shot this time. 13th aircraft assembly has been completed. Induction would be completed within this fiscal year.

 

[Chinmoy]

Very good news.for FOC

I forget, when are the 8 trainers due? Are they building them at the moment? Some stations on the assembly lines must surely be free . I presume they will have cleared the lines before Mk1A hits the lines.

No. At present no trainer variant is undergoing construction. All 18 trainers would be manufactured together.