LCA TEJAS MK1 & MK1A: News and Discussion

[SwordOfDarkness]

Because they kept tweaking the Mark2 till 2018... Mark1A was suggested by HAL an interim stopgap.

Main differences are replacement of foreign components by indian aesa radar, quartz radome, jammers, dual-rack for CCM etc. to get indigenous content from 70% to 90+%. Only the engine & ejection seat will be imported.
They're also streamlining the LRUs to make it more maintenance friendly.

That's it.. Other than that there's not much difference. No design change, no weight reduction.

Also making the integration of later systems (like gun) look less like it was added in by a puncture repair guy.

 

[Bhaubai]

conformation from IAF

 

[Vamsi]

Mid air refueling by a Middle East country ??

 

[Lonewolf]

Iss namazi run-d ke aulaad ko koi reply Karo

All fighters are at different bases , nothing unusual , leave him , it's a side effect of what his father did to his aunt/mother

 

[Narasimh]

Mid air refueling by a Middle East country ??

I think there will be stops, nowhere its mentioned its going to be straight ferry.

 

[Narasimh]

All fighters are at different bases , nothing unusual , leave him , it's a side effect of what his father did to his aunt/mother

Damn! idiocy level: "Rahul". he thinks fighters will have kabaddi match on the runway and wont take to air

 

[Bleh]

Play simultaneously, this is what i mean when i say LCA wings are optimised to retain energy:

2nd pair

 

[abingdonboy]

This is actually crazy news, going to fly alongside F35 and Typhoon. TACDE hasn’t even written the combat manuals for the type


Super aggressive from IAF when they are usually very conservative

 

[maximus777]

This is actually crazy news, going to fly alongside F35 and Typhoon. TACDE hasn’t even written the combat manuals for the type


Super aggressive from IAF when they are usually very conservative

Great step by IAF! I hope we find lots of surprises and we work towards addressing them in Mk1, Mk2, AMCA etc.

 

[omaebakabaka]

Play simultaneously, this is what i mean when i say LCA wings are optimised to retain energy:

F-16 is a beauty!! Very clean and minimal design from all sides.

 

[Photon]

Great teacher

 

[HariPrasad-1]

I wrote a 20 page article one year back and posted on DFI. Using studies from F-16XL the aerodynamic drag for Delta wing is lesser compared to conventional swept back wing even though area of Delta is larger. Hence LCA has very good acceleration and range. It’s payload range matrix is better than Jaguar and almost near Mirage 2000

I beg to difer. Delta designs are dragy and hence becama unpopular initially. However, when they used in combination of RSS, the issue was solved and Delta design became popular. Delta is effective only if plane is designed to be unstable like Tejas.

 

[omaebakabaka]

I beg to difer. Delta designs are dragy and hence becama unpopular initially. However, when they used in combination of RSS, the issue was solved and Delta design became popular. Delta is effective only if plane is designed to be unstable like Tejas.

Most modern gen planes are aerodynamically not stable I think once the fly by wire took over?

 

[HariPrasad-1]

Most modern gen planes are aerodynamically not stable I think once the fly by wire took over?

Yes. Most of them are unstable by design and RSS keeps them stable. However the country like Russia has other was to increase agility like unsymetric design, TVC etc.

 

[omaebakabaka]

Yes. Most of them are unstable by design and RSS keeps them stable. However the country like Russia has other was to increase agility like unsymetric design, TVC etc.

mig 29 was one of the first unstable designs I think in mig series if not in all Russian planes

 

[HariPrasad-1]

mig 29 was one of the first unstable designs I think in mig series if not in all Russian planes

I don't know.

 

[Super Flanker]

I am Very happy about the recent new about LCA Tejas going to UK for excercise with some of the world's most advanced fighter planes like F-16s ,Eurofighter Typhoon's etc.

It will definitely be a lot of Marketing for Tejas. Tejas is getting a lot of International exposure. Tejas is going to UK for excercise Cobra warrior at RAF Wadington from 6th to 22nd March.

 

[mist_consecutive]

 

[mist_consecutive]

 

[FalconSlayers]

Drones are banned so most likely Phake Newj, also its Choineez.