Spearheading the country's Make in India project, Tejas is a game-changer in the true sense. But this has come after a lot of sacrifices and failures. In the 1980s, India had almost lost all its domestic capabilities for developing fighter aircraft on account of the HF-24 Marut, India's first homegrown fighter, not being succeeded by a follow on program.
The aircraft's design and development programme was led by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) of the Indian Department of Defence, with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) as the prime industrial contractor.
The Tejas development cost was Rs 7,000 crore, which is nothing in front of the huge expenses met for similar aircrafts around the world.
However, what is commendable is the fact that it is likely to replace the MiG fleet that is prone to accidents and malfunctioning.
As of June 2016, Tejas had flown more than 3,000 test flights up to speeds of Mach 1.4.
The aircraft's design and development programme was led by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) of the Indian Department of Defence, with Hindustan Aeronaut
ics Limited (HAL) as the prime industrial contractor.
Tejas is light weight, single engine, single seat and supersonic, multirole, combat aircraft.
It has been developed for both land and carrier borne operations.
Some of the other features included:
Indeed, after the ISRO's space missions, Tejas is a moment of truth and pride for India.
The aircraft's design and development programme was led by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) of the Indian Department of Defence, with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) as the prime industrial contractor.
The Tejas development cost was Rs 7,000 crore, which is nothing in front of the huge expenses met for similar aircrafts around the world.
However, what is commendable is the fact that it is likely to replace the MiG fleet that is prone to accidents and malfunctioning.
As of June 2016, Tejas had flown more than 3,000 test flights up to speeds of Mach 1.4.
The aircraft's design and development programme was led by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) of the Indian Department of Defence, with Hindustan Aeronaut
ics Limited (HAL) as the prime industrial contractor.
Tejas is light weight, single engine, single seat and supersonic, multirole, combat aircraft.
It has been developed for both land and carrier borne operations.
Some of the other features included:
- The quadruplex digital fly-by-wire flight control system: This ensures acceptable handling qualities while ensuring adequate safety throughout the flight envelope.
- Glass cockpit open architecture, which compliments piloting.
- Multi Mode Weapon multirole capability, which can fire laser guided bombs
- Can fly without telementary support
- It can help carry out air superiority and offensive air support missions, forward air field operations, all weather multi role operations, electronic counter measures and night flying operations.
- A helmet-mounted display and sight (HMDS) is also included, while the hands-on throttle and stick control system minimises pilot workload and maximises situational awareness.
- Tejas is capable of flying non-stop to destinations over 1700 km away and its Radius of Action is up to 500 km depending upon the nature and duration of actual combat.
Indeed, after the ISRO's space missions, Tejas is a moment of truth and pride for India.
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