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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Tejas set for hot weather trials over Rajasthan deserts

India’s light combat aircraft Tejas will fly over the deserts of Rajasthan later this month for hot weather trials.

The trials, in which the airplane and its systems will be tested in the summer heat, begin a crucial phase for the fighter before the Indian Air Force (IAF) inducts it into its fleet.

“Because we are doing it for the first time, we are very very careful,” says P. S. Subramanyam, head of the Tejas programme at Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) the aircraft development arm of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

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