LCA TEJAS MK-I & MK-IA: News and Discussion

[Brood Father]

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Place the orders of 97 Tejas now

 

[TopWatcher]

Place the orders of 97 Tejas now

Doesnt govt already placed, i think 1 month there was a news !

 

[rohitb3]

Doesnt govt already placed, i think 1 month there was a news !

No, only DAC approval came. This will be followed by CCS approval and then final order placement. Still several months away, unless fast tracked.

 

[Interested]

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Better late the never .. eh ?

Sarcasm aside , the new engine was delivered 2 months ago and the news from ADA was that the airframes are ready waiting for engine integration ...now this first one is outfitted with an old engine

 

[Pundit Pikachu]

Indigenous EW Suite for LCA Mk1A called ASPJ Advanced Self Protection Jammer












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DRDO Advanced Self Protection Jammer. 1 unit is currently undergoing Flight Testing another unit received for testing recently. ASPJ will use in LCA MK1,MK1A, MK2 & MKI. LCA ASPJ will use 16 element AATRU & MKI will use 32 AATRU. Most importantly this ASPJ is based on GaN tech

 

[Gandaberunda]

Better late the never .. eh ?

Sarcasm aside , the new engine was delivered 2 months ago and the news from ADA was that the airframes are ready waiting for engine integration ...now this first one is outfitted with an old engine

The new engine is delivered to HAL Bengaluru facility and will be fitted with the production aircraft in line which hasn’t received any engine. All those 4-5 Tejas built will be in Category B engines only for time being.

 

[vampyrbladez]

Lots of information from HAL Conference Call :

• LCA Mk1a
  
  - GE engine supply chain issues resolved
  - Committed to supplying 12 engines by Dec.
  - 12 aircraft expected to be ready this year

• Misc
  
  - First LCA Mk1 expected for overhaul in FY26

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[shade2]

Lots of information from HAL Conference Call :

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>LCA Mk1 expeted for Overhaul

Overhaul meaning what? they will add all Mk1A improved equipment to the existing mk1 plane?

 

[vampyrbladez]

>LCA Mk1 expeted for Overhaul

Overhaul meaning what? they will add all Mk1A improved equipment to the existing mk1 plane?

Probably most of MK1A features unless structural changes are required.

 

[silentassassin265]

Probably most of MK1A features unless structural changes are required.

But can IOC tejas work with those upgrades?

 

[Spitfire IX]

No, only DAC approval came. This will be followed by CCS approval and then final order placement. Still several months away, unless fast tracked.

Out of curiosity, why is a second order urgent? It will take several years to produce the first 83 Mk1A even on the most optimistic projections. Long lead items take 2(?) years to produce?

To me placing an order for Mk2 is much more important. That will give the builder time to set up for production so there is not a big delay between IAF acceptance and production starting.

 

[Neil (नील/Нил)]

What a wonderful snap!
"When fears are grounded, dreams take flight"

LCA Tejas MK-1 posing for a frontal-view shot. Here the aircraft can be seen carrying two external fuel tanks along with a LSP pod on one of its fuselage hardpoints.
Credit - Praneeth Franklin!

 

[liberalredditor]

Out of curiosity, why is a second order urgent? It will take several years to produce the first 83 Mk1A even on the most optimistic projections. Long lead items take 2(?) years to produce?

To me placing an order for Mk2 is much more important. That will give the builder time to set up for production so there is not a big delay between IAF acceptance and production starting.

You saw what ge said on the engine order, when production line was closed for 3-4 years, then hal placed an order
Thats how you got thirsty for engines

So rn the contractors of subsystems inside and all avionics, then fuselage had prepared for 83 units only, then their production line will either be closed or run very slowly for spares
So you need to inform them to be ready or place order so that they can make necessary changes in their schedule or production capability, or else you would again get a dry production line at hal bangalore

 

[Pazhassiraja]

In the operation Sindoor forum, I asked if Tejas was used in the aerial combat that happened. Does anyone have any info regarding this? There was a tweet regarding this, but I couldn't make anything out of it...Neither was Mig-21 heard being used in it..

 

[ArjunMK1A]

In the operation Sindoor forum, I asked if Tejas was used in the aerial combat that happened. Does anyone have any info regarding this? There was a tweet regarding this, but I couldn't make anything out of it...Neither was Mig-21 heard being used in it..

Definitely Mig 21 were not used. Even Mig 29 not used.

Confirmed ones are rafale which is used scalp, hammer. Su30 mki for brahmos, jaguar and mirage for next day bombing

 

[samsaptaka]

Definitely Mig 21 were not used. Even Mig 29 not used.

Confirmed ones are rafale which is used scalp, hammer. Su30 mki for brahmos, jaguar and mirage for next day bombing

I guess Tejas will be used to fill in the role of MiG21 , i.e, a point defence fighter sadly, though I am sure it can undertake offensive ops atleast against porks, but repeated failure of GoI, MoD and IAF to acquire refuelling aircraft is a glaring deficiency which limits Tejas's range

 

[ArjunMK1A]

I guess Tejas will be used to fill in the role of MiG21 , i.e, a point defence fighter sadly, though I am sure it can undertake offensive ops atleast against porks, but repeated failure of GoI, MoD and IAF to acquire refuelling aircraft is a glaring deficiency which limits Tejas's range

Tejas is not a point defense fighter. It has good combat radius and can easily strike Pakistan. But currently we did not have PGMs for Tejas. Thus we did not used them. Jaguar carried rampage, but tejas could not. Looks like delays in integration.

 

[Tumba]

Tejas is not a point defense fighter. It has good combat radius and can easily strike Pakistan. But currently we did not have PGMs for Tejas. Thus we did not used them. Jaguar carried rampage, but tejas could not. Looks like delays in integration.

Waiting for -NG that is supposed to be carried by all IAF platforms.

Dont see any news regarding its prototype or trials coming

 

[samsaptaka]

Waiting for -NG that is supposed to be carried by all IAF platforms.

Dont see any news regarding its prototype or trials coming

Babooz in brahmos corp unable to come up with indig ram jet, maybe ruskies armtwisting us again for smaller ramjet engine and delaying brahmos NG ? Critical failure to not come up with indig ramjet even after a decade of brahmos induction . Them chings would by now have reverse engineered and rubber stamped mini ramjets....glacial pace of babugiri will destroy this nation

 

[samsaptaka]

Tejas is not a point defense fighter. It has good combat radius and can easily strike Pakistan. But currently we did not have PGMs for Tejas. Thus we did not used them. Jaguar carried rampage, but tejas could not. Looks like delays in integration.

HAL fkrs seriously need danda....Astra was integrated only very recently, despite so many years of MK1 productised, what is the status of SAAW , rudram and other integration on Tejas ? Again glacial chai biskoot pace of integration, that too serially one after the other, what's stopping them from parallel testing saaw, rudram etc using multiple aircraft and teams at same time ?