Why Tejas Fighter Jet Was Delayed | Tejas Mk-1 vs Tejas Mk-1A

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[@vm8136]

Composite airframe causing low radar cross section, lighter weight and low maintenance, electronic warfare suite, in flight refueling, bvr missiles, all axis fly by wire control system, highly reliable and efficient ge f404 engine. All these make it amongst the best aircrafts in small category The best part about Tejas is that with the new Indian radar they are integrating the best of weapons including Russian, European as well as Israeli. This is unthinkable with other aircrafts, French won’t integrate their missiles with Israeli radars and nobody would allow their missiles to be fired using Russian radars The biggest advantage of Tejas for India however is the development of local manufacturing capabilities in the industry and the generation of skilled manpower and such jobs Indian Air Force is impressed with the performance numbers of their baseline Tejas variant over the past four years, so much that they have placed orders for 83 additional Tejas aircraft in improved mk1a configuration and ordering another lot of 97 more The Tejas aircraft is also evolving further with the mk2 variant as well as a naval variant called TEDBF, both of which incorporate sensor fusion and more fifth generation technologies including CATS drones I have to say that the govt must play an active role in ironing out the differences between the armed forces and DRDO scientists. It’s important to mention that previous rm late mr. Parrikar was instrumental in getting the IAF to accept the Tejas by promising incremental improvements with the mk1a variant. Otherwise the previous ten years of congress regime were disastrous for every military procurement and had virtually killed the Tejas program

[@rajasahoo1872]

Seriously 😳 IOC order was given in 2006 FOC order was given in 2010

[@seawolf6484]

2001-1st flight 2006 - 20 IOC order 2010 - 20 FOC order 2013 - IOC certification 2015 - Tejas Induction 2018 - FOC certification 2022 - 87 MK-1A order 2024 - 1st Flight of Mk-1A *2025 - Additional 97 Mk-1A

[@001_aayushsingh5]

Tejas will be the backbown of Indian airforce 40 Mk-1 180 MK-1A 200+ MK-2 Total 400+ Tejas 😍

[@hailer321]

Simple facts , no bullshit

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