India HAL Tejas Program

[crixus]

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1389621086862471175

 

[Nilgiri]

All credit to creator: Kuntal Biswas @kuntalbiswas (His work can be found on twitter and instagram)

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1391019548095045632

 

[Rajendra Chola]

HAL is sitting with around 7 Tejas FOC version. I guess with the budget crunch, IAF has kept HAL waiting on delivery. HAl has taken this chance as an opportunity to integrate missiles now rather than later. IAF would be getting even more capable platform.

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1394898673163591682

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396136638401564675

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396867502928400390

 

[Nilgiri]

Pic Credit to Praneeth Franklin:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1400265839950012416

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404213324317806596

 

[Nilgiri]

Apparently first delay/excuse has been announced @Zapper et al:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1405747380146761734

A nice pic:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1405571137640169476

 

[Zapper]

Apparently first delay/excuse has been announced @Zapper et al:

I feel they're just putting the blame on private suppliers...more to do with ADA or HAL

 

[Nilgiri]

All credit to original owner (Sanjay Simha):

 

[ziopino84]

The HAL Tejas is an Indian single-engine multirole light fighter designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) in collaboration with Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC) of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force and Indian Navy. It came from the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, which began in the 1980s to replace India's ageing MiG-21 fighters. In 2003, the LCA was officially named "Tejas".

 

[Nilgiri]

Credit to Praneeth Franklin

 

[Nilgiri]

India set to ink $700 mn fighter jet engine deal with US soon

The American engines already power the Mk1 variant of the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) that is already in service with the IAF and would smoothly fit into the latest version of the indigenous fighter

www.businesstoday.in

India is all set to ink another major defence deal with the United States (US), to acquire fighter jet engines worth $700 million.

Negotiations are almost over for the engines that will be used to power the homegrown Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA).

The Indian Air Force (IAF) will buy a total of 83 jet engines of the LCA Mk1A version from General Electric (GE). All issues pertaining to supply have been straightened out and India will soon place an order for 100 of the GE 404 engines, sources told the Economic Times.

The American engines already power the Mk1 variant of the LCA that is already in service with the IAF and would smoothly fit into the latest version of the indigenous fighter.

The contract with GE is likely to be signed this year. If the deal comes through, this will be the biggest defence deal with the US since February 2020 when India placed orders to procure Apache attack choppers and MH-60 Sikorsky Romeo multi-role helicopters during a visit by then President Donald Trump.

Although the deal doesn't comprise transfer of technology, efforts are underway to build a domestic fighter jet engine for the future Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) programme.

Spearheaded by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the project envisions a partnership either with England or France to together develop critical engine technology in order to power all future air force fighters.

India in February this year inked a Rs 48,000 crore (~ 6.4 billion USD) deal to acquire indigenous LCA Tejas Mk1A fighter jets with state-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). The mega order was the biggest ever single defence contract signed with an Indian manufacturer and would include various private sector companies as well.

 

[crixus]

Credit to Praneeth Franklin

May be this is not a perfect product but it will defenitely lay the path for perfect product.

 

[Rajendra Chola]

India set to ink $700 mn fighter jet engine deal with US soon

The American engines already power the Mk1 variant of the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) that is already in service with the IAF and would smoothly fit into the latest version of the indigenous fighter

www.businesstoday.in

India is all set to ink another major defence deal with the United States (US), to acquire fighter jet engines worth $700 million.

Negotiations are almost over for the engines that will be used to power the homegrown Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA).

The Indian Air Force (IAF) will buy a total of 83 jet engines of the LCA Mk1A version from General Electric (GE). All issues pertaining to supply have been straightened out and India will soon place an order for 100 of the GE 404 engines, sources told the Economic Times.

The American engines already power the Mk1 variant of the LCA that is already in service with the IAF and would smoothly fit into the latest version of the indigenous fighter.

The contract with GE is likely to be signed this year. If the deal comes through, this will be the biggest defence deal with the US since February 2020 when India placed orders to procure Apache attack choppers and MH-60 Sikorsky Romeo multi-role helicopters during a visit by then President Donald Trump.

Although the deal doesn't comprise transfer of technology, efforts are underway to build a domestic fighter jet engine for the future Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) programme.

Spearheaded by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the project envisions a partnership either with England or France to together develop critical engine technology in order to power all future air force fighters.

India in February this year inked a Rs 48,000 crore (~ 6.4 billion USD) deal to acquire indigenous LCA Tejas Mk1A fighter jets with state-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). The mega order was the biggest ever single defence contract signed with an Indian manufacturer and would include various private sector companies as well.

Think this thread should be part of HAL Tejas as ordered ones are for 83mk1A anyway. It's not a newly discussed order to be exact.

 

[Nilgiri]

Think this thread should be part of HAL Tejas as ordered ones are for 83mk1A anyway. It's not a newly discussed order to be exact.

It will eventually make it way there (archive thread, in this case Tejas one that you mention).

Normally if (poster feels) its a major headline development, it is fine to start a new thread for time being.

Almost everything (separate) will eventually find its way to archive, all bases are covered more or less there now I think.

 

[Nilgiri]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1416627169120247813