Tejas Mk2 jig tender
Looks like Canards are mostly confirmed.
Looks like Canards are mostly confirmed.
Tejas Mk2 (Medium Weight Fighter) - News and discussions
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Let them try canards, it will not help. We will have another Rafale with extremely high alpha approaches to reduce landing speeds.
Fuselage Length - 13.9 m
Mk1 Length - 13.2 m
Empty structural weight - 1800 Kg (approx. excluding Wings/Tail/Canards)
No. of units - 24/year
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Guess its time for new sticky 
The canards need a vertical separation and horizontal separation based as a percentage of wing MAC to deliver best performance and the aircraft must be designed accordingly. LCA is a high wing aircraft and now adding canards to it will not give much of a benefit as the vertical separation of Ymac of 0.15 can't be applied. What ADA is trying is that they are trying to provide crutches to a guy without legs.
Noob question : Is engine nozzle length of a fighter plane considered while measuring it's entire length.
M5 amd Kfir used fixed canards. M2K used stub wings to provide vortex flow at higher alpha to re-enrgise the airflow around rudders and also better lift thru wing-stub wing vortex interaction.
Airforce version. It mentions 24 assemblies to be delivered per year.
Not noob, but a valid question. Nozzle length is included and will add to the existing 13.9m length of the fuselage. The final length will therefore be over 14m which takes us to the speculated fuselage extension of 1m or more.
Good Day!
MKII call for tenders just showed up. Guess what? It will be equipped with close coupled moving canards.
The attitude in HAL, MoD and PMO is same as past , so i am not really expecting any thing.
The design is unfit for CCC. It will need major tweaks to make CCC work.
In the past you have told us, it will improve performance but maximum cannot be extracted from the design..
Why would ADA guys add Canards if there is not much of use .
Since originally in Mk1 they found out Canards is not much of use ..
Official timeline reminder. Since its IST add two more years to be safe!
I have copied this from BR
Some progress on MK 2
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Tejas mk2 cross sectional diagrams in HAL jig assembly tenders.
Front section with canards
http://hal-india.co.in/Common/Uploads/TenderDoc/19865_TenderPDF1_RFI FF.pdf
Mid section
http://hal-india.co.in/Common/Uploads/TenderDoc/19864_TenderPDF1_RFI CF.pdf
Rear section
http://hal-india.co.in/Common/Uploads/TenderDoc/19866_TenderPDF1_RFI RF.pdf
Some progress on MK 2
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Tejas mk2 cross sectional diagrams in HAL jig assembly tenders.
Front section with canards
http://hal-india.co.in/Common/Uploads/TenderDoc/19865_TenderPDF1_RFI FF.pdf
Mid section
http://hal-india.co.in/Common/Uploads/TenderDoc/19864_TenderPDF1_RFI CF.pdf
Rear section
http://hal-india.co.in/Common/Uploads/TenderDoc/19866_TenderPDF1_RFI RF.pdf
Canard addition should make it a completely new design, also incorporating stealth is something ADA/HAL must work on. The front by no means looks like a stealth design and addition of canards will add to RCS, I hope they figure something out.
One positive point, this time the designer ADA is working closely with the manufacturer HAL, it will make MK2 easy to manufacture.
One positive point, this time the designer ADA is working closely with the manufacturer HAL, it will make MK2 easy to manufacture.
Canard addition should make it a completely new design, also incorporating stealth is something ADA/HAL must work on. The front by no means looks like a stealth design and addition of canards will add to RCS, I hope they figure something out.
One positive point, this time the designer ADA is working closely with the manufacturer HAL, it will make MK2 easy to manufacture.
They are putting together the First prototype
It is the first step of a new journey
Difficult to say without a complete model. However, air intakes look very 80ies. Will they be hidden by canards?