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Tejas Mk2 (Medium Weight Fighter) - News and discussions
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Indigenous light combat aircraft targeted by 2022
Sanctioned by the government in 2009, the Mk II will be equipped with state-of-the-art AESA radar with the indigenously developed air-to-air missile Astra, which has a range of 70km. The beyond visual range missile is currently being tested on the IAF’s Su-30 MKI fighters.
by Shishir Gupta
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Updated: Aug 23, 2019 07:09 IST
Tejas fighter aircraft performs during Aero India 2019, at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru . (ANI photo)
The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will unveil the Tejas Mark II with a heavier stand-off weapon capacity in the 75th year of India’s independence, in 2022, and the long-awaited indigenous fighter, which will be manufactured by the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), will go into production by 2025-2026, two senior defence officials said on condition of anonymity.
DRDO’s ADA finalised the design of the 17.5 ton Tejas Mark II (Mk-II) in December 2018, and is expected to lock in the design of the fifth generation twin-engine stealth fighter for Indian Air Force (IAF) by the end of the year. ADA officials said the Mk II will have the same weight as the Mirage, Jaguar and Grippen but with a heavier GE 414 engine. The qualitative requirements were frozen in late 2018, in full consultation and with the approval of the IAF, two years after the project was redesigned. The 4.5 generation fighter will go into production after the Tejas LCA (light combat aircraft) order of 123 aircraft to replace the air force’s ageing MiG-21s is completed.
Sanctioned by the government in 2009, the Mk II will be equipped with state-of-the-art AESA radar with the indigenously developed air-to-air missile Astra, which has a range of 70km. The beyond visual range missile is currently being tested on the IAF’s Su-30 MKI fighters.
ADA and IAF are also moving rapidly on the development of the advanced medium combat aircraft (AMCA). The 25-ton fighter will have all weapons in its belly and be powered by two engines capable of super-cruise speeds. AMCA will have complex S-shaped serpentine intakes. These hide the spinning turbine blades in the engine and are a key stealth feature. The super cruise feature allows the aircraft to accelerate without the use of after burners. Both features ensure minimum radar signatures.
According to top DRDO officials who asked not to be named, the design of AMCA, which was approved as an initial concept in 2014, has been given a go-ahead by IAF late last year. In consultation with the air force, the design of the twin engine fighter will be frozen by the end of the year. This, too, will be made by HAL.
The Tejas will be lightest member of the family; the LCA weighs just around 11 tonnes.
Designed as a fifth-generation stealth fighter using composite material, the AMCA will be unveiled by ADA in 2024. With a weight equivalent to the F-18 fighter, AMCA will be powered with a new engine, the search for which has already started.
Indigenous light combat aircraft targeted by 2022
Sanctioned by the government in 2009, the Mk II will be equipped with state-of-the-art AESA radar with the indigenously developed air-to-air missile Astra, which has a range of 70km. The beyond visual range missile is currently being tested on the IAF’s Su-30 MKI fighters.
by Shishir Gupta
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Updated: Aug 23, 2019 07:09 IST
The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will unveil the Tejas Mark II with a heavier stand-off weapon capacity in the 75th year of India’s independence, in 2022, and the long-awaited indigenous fighter, which will be manufactured by the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), will go into production by 2025-2026, two senior defence officials said on condition of anonymity.
DRDO’s ADA finalised the design of the 17.5 ton Tejas Mark II (Mk-II) in December 2018, and is expected to lock in the design of the fifth generation twin-engine stealth fighter for Indian Air Force (IAF) by the end of the year. ADA officials said the Mk II will have the same weight as the Mirage, Jaguar and Grippen but with a heavier GE 414 engine. The qualitative requirements were frozen in late 2018, in full consultation and with the approval of the IAF, two years after the project was redesigned. The 4.5 generation fighter will go into production after the Tejas LCA (light combat aircraft) order of 123 aircraft to replace the air force’s ageing MiG-21s is completed.
Sanctioned by the government in 2009, the Mk II will be equipped with state-of-the-art AESA radar with the indigenously developed air-to-air missile Astra, which has a range of 70km. The beyond visual range missile is currently being tested on the IAF’s Su-30 MKI fighters.
ADA and IAF are also moving rapidly on the development of the advanced medium combat aircraft (AMCA). The 25-ton fighter will have all weapons in its belly and be powered by two engines capable of super-cruise speeds. AMCA will have complex S-shaped serpentine intakes. These hide the spinning turbine blades in the engine and are a key stealth feature. The super cruise feature allows the aircraft to accelerate without the use of after burners. Both features ensure minimum radar signatures.
According to top DRDO officials who asked not to be named, the design of AMCA, which was approved as an initial concept in 2014, has been given a go-ahead by IAF late last year. In consultation with the air force, the design of the twin engine fighter will be frozen by the end of the year. This, too, will be made by HAL.
The Tejas will be lightest member of the family; the LCA weighs just around 11 tonnes.
Designed as a fifth-generation stealth fighter using composite material, the AMCA will be unveiled by ADA in 2024. With a weight equivalent to the F-18 fighter, AMCA will be powered with a new engine, the search for which has already started.
Indigenous light combat aircraft targeted by 2022
Either Group Captain Harshvardhan or Shishir Gupta is @randomradio .
Or I'm having the least potent whisky in the market. I wonder why does everything happen to me?
Or I'm having the least potent whisky in the market. I wonder why does everything happen to me?
Why everything at HAL?, some private companies cannot take production of some ac's?
Laser Acquisition Device, I think. Basically a laser targeting pod.
BEL was making a LDP, displayed it in AeroIndia-2013.
@randomradio I see your bosom buddy sancho is doing what he does best. Casting grave doubts on the entire Tejas program and nitpicking when confronted with facts. Pity you aren't on Twitter to counter him & bowl your googlies.
Sancho getting schooled on Twitter as well. Nothing special.
But I don't expect anything to change. Sancho's gonna be Sancho.
Concurrent production. That's a scary term. I hope the IAF isn't fooled by this like the US was.
There were much better contrarian views available, like Vstol, BMD, French members, English members, Americans etc. You probably missed all our discussion on the older forum back in 2013 and 2014. When I first joined I challenged (more like questioned) every point made for the Rafale, so it made for an interesting time.
Now there's nothing much to discuss. I guess we have to wait for the second RFP to make things interesting again. Rafale had come out with new hardware upgrades back then, so we will have to wait for F4.1/4.2, and the Typhoon and F-35's new line of upgrades in a few years for everything to pick up again.
BMD provides far, far better contrarian views than Sancho does.
@Picdelamirand-oil @halloweene @vstol Jockey @BMD @A Person @Bon Plan
Tender of tyres of MWF from HAL.
https://hal-india.co.in/Tender_Details.aspx?Mkey=63&lKey=&Ckey=MjMzNDQ=&Divkey=MTY=
https://hal-india.co.in/Tender_Details.aspx?Mkey=63&lKey=&Ckey=MjMzNDQ=&Divkey=MTY=