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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Light Combat Aircraft: questions over installed thrust

Issues to the fore after two prototype vehicles are put through 24 flights at Arakkonam

Sea-level flights of Tejas, the indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA), have thrown up questions relating to its installed thrust.

If these are not resolved, it is possible that India’s fourth generation fighter aircraft programme, launched in 1983, could get further delayed.

Prototype vehicles PV2 and PV3 were put through 24 flights over two weeks at INS Rajali at Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu recently.

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