Tejas

The new Tejas Mark 2 fighter is expected to be rolled out in a two-year time frame, and its first flight will take another year, say ADA officials.

HAL officials say they would have preferred to offer customers the sophisticated Mark 1A version of the Tejas, which has mid-air refuelling, AESA radar, and the ability to fire BVR missiles

While industry watchers rate the Tejas Mark 1A highly, there is concern over haste with which Indian team was despatched to Singapore; and a feeling that New Delhi is participating without clear aims

The IAF will be pushing hard to bag an order from the Royal Malaysian Air Force, which is looking to buy a mix of 36 light fighter variants under its 'Capability 55' plan

The Tejas Mark 2's increased payload capacity will enable it to integrate significantly more weapons and sensors than the Mark 1 fighter

Malaysia, Argentina, Egypt - the three countries that have evinced interest in the Indian light fighter

The Indian Air Force said that the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas and Sarang Helicopter Display Team showcased "superior flying skills" at the Dubai Air Show here on Sunday

The company said it has signed a $716 million deal with GE Aviation for procurement of 99 engines for manufacturing 83 LCA Tejas for Indian Air Force (IAF)

India and Pakistan's approach to light fighters is a study in contrast with lessons for indigenisation

Technology available 'only with a handful of countries', says defence ministry

He said the structural package and other work on the Tejas Mark II is progressing well and its production is likely to start somewhere around 2025

The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said

This takes India into a select group of nations that have developed aircraft capable of landing and taking off from the severely constrained confines of an aircraft carrier deck

The naval version of Tejas aircraft on Saturday made its first landing on the deck of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, in a major milestone in the development of the aircraft. Military officials involved in the "arrested landing" of the aircraft said the successful test has put India among a select group of nations having the capability to design a jet which can land on an aircraft carrier. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, in a tweet, said the successful landing of the aircraft on INS Vikramaditya is a "great event" in the history of Indian fighter aircraft development programme. He congratulated the DRDO and the Indian Navy for the successful test. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is involved in development of the naval variant of Tejas along with Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Aircraft Research and Design Centre of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd and CSIR among others. "After completing extensive trials on the shore based test facility, DRDO, ADA devel

The Tejas train is already functional on the Delhi-Lucknow route

The first of a two-part series focuses on how Tejas Mark 1A will act as a bridge between the Tejas Mark 1 and the Mark 2 fighter

The Tejas prototype took off from the Navy's Shore Based Test Facility, but exactly as it would have from an aircraft carrier

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will take a flight in the Tejas light combat aircraft in Bengaluru, and then travel to Mumbai for milestones in India's shipbuilding programme

Repeated IAF demands for more capability likely to delay Mark 2

Hindustan Aeronautics executives call for quick decision, say building complex fighter from ground up requires three years.