GR8 to see some pictures of MCA ,they are some news on Tejas MK-II has well ,Design work of Tejas MK-II is almost done and plans of working on a new Avionics suite for Tejas MK-II will also start from 2010 onwards

Some Random Pictures of Tejas

Before First Night Flight

Line up of TD, PV,LSP

Tejas with Bombs

Tejas Trainer doing Taxi Trials

F-16 Super viper, Mig-35 and Grippen NG all in concept stage and using old airframes ,only IAF selection will make them appear actaully ,and why the hell Ecuadorian Dhruv has cobra written that to in hindi ??

As per the IAF.

Not enough thrust. Avionics not up to the mark. Radar integration not complete (indigenous MMR delayed). Radar guided weapons not tested yet ( because of lack of radar ).

20 of the MK1 will be inducted. plus 8-12 trainers.

MK2 will have better avionics, higher thrust engine, will be operational by 2013.

Leaving low thrust ,others are all in the way to up, MMR integration is complete LSP-3 with MMR Test flight by March end ,Weapons Testing has all ready begun with recent live Bomb testing and Heading to Rajisthan in may for further Weapons testing ,Avionics is the best after MKI in IAF ,remember DARIN-II updates on jags/mig-27 is all due to work carried on Tejas Avionics ,latest article where ADA director has said that computer chips are has latest has 12 months

Five Tejas Aircraft (Light Combat Aircraft) led by Air Cmde Rohit Varma, VM, Project Director (Flight Test), National Flight Test Centre – Aeronautical Development Agency carried out a flypast at Bangalore Airport (HAL) today (February 6, 2009) prelude towards the Aero India Inauguration Ceremony to be held on February 11, 2009. The mission, flown by all test pilots of the National Flight Test Centre, combined flight test profiles for the individual Tejas aircraft with a coordinated rehearsal for the Aero India fly-past.

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Tejas crosses a milestone

Ravi Sharma

BANGALORE: In a milestone, a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas took off from here and for the first time dropped live stores (bombs) at a firing range.

The dropping of two 25-pounder bombs, with one striking the target and the other falling within the inner 25 yard circle, was undertaken by Prototype Vehicle-3 of the LCA programme.

The successful dropping of the light, marker bombs will enable the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) – designers of the fly-by-wire LCA – to not only prove the working of the aircraft’s flight control software for weapon drops and aiming, but also take forward the LCA’s weaponisation programme.

ADA officials said the flight control system software had to recognise and adjust for the dropping and still maintain the highly unstable flying platform’s handling qualities.

The software had to take into effect the added stores, asymmetric drops, increased sensitivity of the aircraft’s controls and still make sure that the movement of the aircraft’s centre of gravity was still well within limits.

Following this success, the ADA is planning to do as many similar sorties dropping both 25-pounder and 3-kg bombs over the next three days, analyse the results and then prepare for the next stage of the weaponisation programme.

The next stage of weapon trials will see the ADA and the Air Force taking the Tejas to Jamnagar in Gujarat, hopefully by the end of the month. Jamnagar has been chosen as its cross runways will allow the undertaking of both weapon and cross wind trials.