Indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas of India is about fly past the 5000 test flight mark soon. The HAL Tejas is an Indian single-engine, fourth-generation, multirole light fighter designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency in collaboration with Aircraft Research and Design Centre of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for the Indian Air Force and Indian Navy.
An updated Tejas Flight data has been made available in the public domain. As per the latest updates, India’s LCA Tejas have achieved 4,985 test flights as of February 16. Fighter jet Model Number SP 19 and SP 20 already had their first flight by then. Overall Tejas multi-role, fighter jet has clocked 4,998 test flights as of today.
Tejas has a tail-less compound delta-wing configuration with a single vertical stabilizer. This provides better high-alpha performance characteristics than conventional wing designs. Its wing root leading edge has a sweep of 50 degrees, the outer wing leading edge has a sweep of 62.5 degrees, and the trailing edge has a forward sweep of four degrees. It integrates technologies such as relaxed static stability, fly-by-wire flight control system, multi-mode radar, integrated digital avionics system and composite material structures. It is the smallest and lightest in its class of contemporary supersonic combat aircraft.
Tejas fighter jets has8 hardpoints (1 × beneath the port-side intake trunk for targeting pods, 6 × under-wing, and 1 × under-fuselage) with a capacity of 5,300 kg, with provisions to carry combinations of missiles and rockets.
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