Tejas to have only limited weaponry?

Already running 10 years behind schedule, the country's prestigious Light Combat Aircraft Tejas would be carrying only “limited weaponry” when they get ready by 2012.

As the first of these indigenous fighters strive for initial operational clearance in 2010, experts have come up with sudden complications that Tejas' US aeroengine GE404 does not have requisite thrust to give it power to carry its full load of weaponry, highly-placed sources said.

Tejas, on induction, were slated to be armed with air-to-air beyond visual range missiles, air-to-ground missiles and full complement of heavy and medium precision and cluster bombs.

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