Light Combat Aircraft named as Tejas by P.M. Atal Behari Vajpayee in 2003
- Tailless, compound delta -wing design powered by single engine
- programme launched in 1983
- Air Staff requirement finalised in the end of 1985
- Project definition started in Sept 1987 and completed after about a year in 1988; design finalised around 1990
- A leap from 2 generation to 4.5 generation
- Kaveri engine by GTRE till then GE 404 turbofan as an interim arrangement till Kaveri is available
- unit cost around 100 crore thus much cheaper than its contemporary fighters costing 150-270 crores
- State -of-the-art-technology
- Undergoing flight testing
- inducted in 2009 in Indian Navy
- inducteed in Indian Air Force in 2010 & 2011; Service entry by 2012
- Money spent around 4500 crore
- Light weight, multirole jet fighter developed by India
- Tailless, compound delta -wing design powered by single engine
- programme launched in 1983
- Air Staff requirement finalised in the end of 1985
- Project definition started in Sept 1987 and completed after about a year in 1988; design finalised around 1990
- A leap from 2 generation to 4.5 generation
- Kaveri engine by GTRE till then GE 404 turbofan as an interim arrangement till Kaveri is available
- unit cost around 100 crore thus much cheaper than its contemporary fighters costing 150-270 crores
- State -of-the-art-technology
- Undergoing flight testing
- inducted in 2009 in Indian Navy
- inducteed in Indian Air Force in 2010 & 2011; Service entry by 2012
- Money spent around 4500 crore
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