LCA Tejas PV-1 Test Flies with Drop Tanks

LCA Tejas Prototype Vehicle-1 Test Flies with ~800 ltr drop tanks.

Video Credit: ADA

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• LCA
• Tejas
• PV-1
• ADA
• HAL
• IAF
• Drop
• Tanks

[chnasirnazir]

LCA.... The Last Chance Aircraft

[aviatormikehunter]

LCA is not 100% Indian effort. FBW has British components. Radar is from Israel. Engine is from USA. All these foreign elements may only be for interim use. However, at present. LCA is far from 100% Indian effort and still not able to fly with full operational clearance. LCA is still a problem child for the Indians.....

[anant14]

Look at the aircraft inventory of PLAAF from net.....you can see that the "bulk" of their aircraft are "obselete".......but still can do serious damage as they have numbers..... 

[anant14]

The biggest advantage of LCA is its performance combined with COST !!

IAF needs a single engine, single pilot fighter which has reasonable stealth (made with composites), advanced avoinics , which can be used for accurate bombing as well as facing bulk of PAF / PLAAF aircraft !

LCA is the only answer to these issues.....

[anant14]

@ImFlyingEagle ,

You are missing one point...... For a country with large borders like India.......300 Sukhois (Final) + 126 MMRCA is not enough.....any air force needs all types of aircraft.....maintaining twin engine aircraft is very expensive....

In fact even US cannot afford more F 22s....because of its high cost.....so it still uses F15s,.

LCA will play an important role anyway.....moreover with latest (and contantly updated) radar avonics etc.....it will be always a great fighter.......

[ImFlyingEagle]

Congratulation to IAF on induction of LCA. But now in IAF there is a divide on LCA. Some want to turn the LCA into a advanced jet trainer due to its failure as multirole fighter, others are still convinced that it could be a success and some want to produce despite its drawbacks and just use it as a point defense fighter like the MiG-21 (which it is suppose to replace). Now that would be a achievement, producing a 1960´s MiG-21 kind of fighter in 2015.

[MrBilliondollarbaby]

brother it needs some time to develop a gud fighter. its india's 1st modern fighter. y do you people start complaining? give us sometime, let our industries grow and then you people c what we come up with.

[pmoy61]

Is it just me or does this aircraft have the side profile of a JF-17 and the wings of a French Mirage 2000? It's still a small aircraft which means a small payload compared to an F-15, 16, 18, Rafale, Typhoon II, Mirage 2000, SU-27, J-10, Gripen , etc. For such a long development, at great cost, a much more capable aircraft would have been expected and already in squadron service. The estimated cost per aircraft is also very high, about $21-35 million.

[Tomahawk1999]

Tejas has been a failure. one thing people keep bringing up is we have produced the lightest fighter. No sir, thats not an accomplishment. a lot of western nations can but dont because its not that important to be light in the grand scheme of things. stop being obssessed with light weight and worry about parameters that matter in combat. its good to reduce weight but thats not a bragging point.

[2003iprayforgod]

@assprobe "running operations independently"? you guys are running on imports. don't even get me started, fool. anyway, how the fuck do you guys call yourselves a "superpower" if your average citizen has no sanitation facility and uses cow dung for fuel? lol Former United States President Bill Clinton says India is now the epicenter of the global HIV/Aids epidemic. -- (BBC, December 2006)

[AmericanRaptor1]

In IAF there is a divide on LCA. Some want to turn the LCA into a advanced jet trainer due to its failure as multirole fighter, others are still convinced that it could be a success and some want to produce despite its drawbacks and just use it as a point defense fighter like the F-5 Freedom Fighter or the MiG-21 (which it is suppose to replace). Now that would be a achievement, producing a 1960´s MiG-21 kind of fighter in 2015.

[bestfighterpilot]

@aviatormikehunter See whatever it is they have a job to complete and the final product should meet a User Acceptance Test. This is just horrible project management nothing else.

The basic premise of this LCA is a vestige of 1980. Its older than probably the average age of an Indian AF active duty pilot. That aint cutting edge!

So get more exotic on the “requirements” and then fail at producing any results. Its called “hauwka”(greed). It gets nowhere