HAL LCA Tejas: Updates, News & Discussions

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More Images from the follow on NDTV interview show a partially assembled
LA-5044
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Making it the 12th MK1A and along with the 2 trainers the 14th Aircraft of the 83 Mk1A order

14 aircrafts in 18 month with crippling supply chain
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This is the Bangalore line, Nashik assembly lines is also making airframes in parallel, 045 last I remember.

 

[Faceless]

More Images from the follow on NDTV interview show a partially assembled
LA-5044
View attachment 148069
Making it the 12th MK1A and along with the 2 trainers the 14th Aircraft of the 83 Mk1A order

14 aircrafts in 18 month with crippling supply chain
View attachment 148071

LA-5045 landing and deploying a drouge parachute

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This makes it the 13 Mk1A aircraft
along with 1 fully assembled and 1 partially assembled trainers makes it the 15th Aircraft of the 83 Mk1A order

 

[panzerfaust 3]

India needs to persist and support the Tejas programs. In fact, the reflexive urges of the Indian military and political establishment to gut Tejas development for quick import solutions has undermined the Indian aerospace industry.

While India’s political class has wavered with Tejas, China has not only mastered 4th gen fighters but are now making 6th generation fighters.

India must create a ‘ do or die’ moment for Tejas and stop foreign imports which kill indigenization efforts. Imagine if India relied on space rocket imports rather than supporting ISRO?

Finally someone gets it!!!

 

[onlinpunit]

LA-5045 landing and deploying a drouge parachute
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This makes it the 13 Mk1A aircraft
along with 1 fully assembled and 1 partially assembled trainers makes it the 15th Aircraft of the 83 Mk1A order

So by the end of the year we will have one Squadron of MK1A!

 

[harpy1]

We have two extreme points of view in the thread
Yasser led campaign Tejas Is failed project too late too little too small....

An pro Indian adamant campaign 97 more Tejas orderd and this bird will be fielding ten full squadrons by 2035 ...

My take it's better safer more modern then migs they are replacing but how can they compete with Pakistani air force of 2035:
Today Tejas is fine it would fight
Obselete mirage F7 even the falcons are obselete bar 18 block 52

Near par thunders

But be outgunned by just 25 J10

My question is what will.pakistan have in 2035
How many of there obselete 150 mirages and falcons will be replaced and by what

 

[harpy1]

The Indians seem to believe and I sort of agree
These Tejas will see Pakistan air force
Of
40J35
60 J10c
240 j17 block 2/3/4

In this regards Tejas at best can tackle the 200 plus Thunders only imo not the J10 or fifth generation fighters

 

[Yasser76]

We have two extreme points of view in the thread
Yasser led campaign Tejas Is failed project too late too little too small....

An pro Indian adamant campaign 97 more Tejas orderd and this bird will be fielding ten full squadrons by 2035 ...

My take it's better safer more modern then migs they are replacing but how can they compete with Pakistani air force of 2035:
Today Tejas is fine it would fight
Obselete mirage F7 even the falcons are obselete bar 18 block 52

Near par thunders

But be outgunned by just 25 J10

My question is what will.pakistan have in 2035
How many of there obselete 150 mirages and falcons will be replaced and by what

Bless you, I have not led the "Tejas is failed" campaign, HAL has!!!!!!!

Much as you may now desperately want to drag PAF into this thread, stick to the shit show that is LCA.

If you wanna chat PAF lets do it in another thread, after Saudi agreement and J-35 confirmation things are looking even bleaker for IAF, so I am very keen for this debate....

 

[Be dazzled]

Tejas is a fine platform. With a non yanki engine it will serve the IAF better. It's foolish to underestimate it despite its shortcomings.

 

[Gregor Clegane]

Tejas numbers keeps pumping up.
13th Tejas Mk1A now airborne.

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[Yasser76]

Tejas numbers keeps pumping up.
13th Tejas Mk1A now airborne.

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So many planes, so little deliveries....

 

[harpy1]

Bless you, I have not led the "Tejas is failed" campaign, HAL has!!!!!!!

Much as you may now desperately want to drag PAF into this thread, stick to the shit show that is LCA.

If you wanna chat PAF lets do it in another thread, after Saudi agreement and J-35 confirmation things are looking even bleaker for IAF, so I

am very keen for this debate....

Yes please open your thread about Saudi defense pack very keen to see how your gonna fight Israel and the USA

 

[harpy1]

Tejas numbers keeps pumping up.
13th Tejas Mk1A now airborne.

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Nice plane but decade too late

 

[Yasser76]

Pakistan(and China) has manufactured and delivered close to 180 JF17s so far, with an a guaranteed production run close to 220 units that will take place and that is excluding PFX, or another possible batch of JF17C for the PAF (following Sindoor).

Pakistan : 161 delivered.
Azerbaijan : 40 being manufactured(some delivered).
Nigeria : 3 delivered
Mynamar : 13 delivered, 3 remaining

(Source = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC/PAC_JF-17_Thunder )

But, yes, go on - cheer your "13th" delivered plane. Did it have an engine btw ??

Were their media not reporting when a wing got made an GE delivered a single engine?

Next we will be celebrating when one HAL employee fits a tyre onto a Tejas....

 

[harpy1]

Yasser I have to admit this Tejas saga is joke tbh
You have rediculed for years and proven right it's too late in the day...

I have no confidence in either Tejas or Amca arriving in numbers or in time to be useful .

 

[Yasser76]

Yasser I have to admit this Tejas saga is joke tbh
You have rediculed for years and proven right it's too late in the day...

I have no confidence in either Tejas or Amca arriving in numbers or in time to be useful .

India has acheived much in home grown defence, especially in ships, helicopters and missiles. AMCA could be a success, but time to start admitting MK1A will not give India a decent fighter in the timelines IAF desires and in the numbers IAF desires.

IAF CAS put it very well, "Technology delayed is technology denied". Issue is posters of here have placed their position so close to that of Tejas that admitting it has failed is too much for their ego. No shame in failure, you live and learn, as Chinese have found out but moved on.

Now celebrating when more airframes that need to share engines are flying but undeliverable, well, things have become a running joke....