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Alpha Tocol handed over the first rear fuselage module of the Tejas Mk1A to HAL in the presence of the RM. Central and forward fuselage as well as wings are also to be built by other private sector companies including Dynamatics, L&T and VEM Tech.
You’re thinking of a consideration vs a requirement based on it all hinging on PLM - I would love to see how deck motion, limited landing area, and the arrestor cable system can be replicated.
For years, the service has debated whether a future trainer—which would also be used for Marine Corps pilots—must be able to operate from a carrier like the T-45 does. Operational aircraft such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 are capable of autolanding on the ship. An Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) request for information (RFI) released in mid-August provides a compromise: The future trainer would not be designed to go to the ship, but would need to be able to endure repeated unflared landings to practice the carrier flight profile.
Not until Astra Mk2.With Astra Tejas has first shot advantage over entire PAF fleet except J-10C.
We have something better in the makingNot until Astra Mk2.


Tejas Mk1A prototype (Tejas Mk1 to which Mk1A avionics were added for flight testing) LA-5021 and the final Tejas trainer LT-5208 from the batch of 8 that was ordered by the IAF. Now the trainers that are being built are from the 10 trainers that were ordered alongside 73 single seat Tejas Mk1A fighters.
Note the much improved build quality.
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