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Saturday, May 02, 2009

India set to build Medium Combat Aircraft

Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)With India’s home-built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) — the Tejas — flying successfully through its testing process, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has now signed up for an indigenous Medium Combat Aircraft (MCA).

Within days, the IAF and a team of aircraft designers will formally set up a joint committee to frame the specifications for India’s own MCA, which will be built largely in Bangalore.

The MCA’s design team will centre on the agencies that have built the LCA: the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA); the National Aeronautics Laboratory (NAL); Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL); and a host of Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) laboratories that will develop futuristic sensors and systems for the MCA.

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2 comments:

  1. Tejaswy2/5/09 15:11

    I hope both DRDO and IAF put what they have learnt from LCA and make MCA a better product

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  2. Unknown3/5/09 01:55

    At the very least I hope they can finish it in less than thirty years.

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