Air force to induct India made 'Tejas' today
posted on Jul 1, 2016 @ 10:59AM
The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas, which has taken over three decades in the making will finally get inducted into the Air Force. The induction of two aircraft into the force will take place in Bengaluru on Friday.The aircraft are likely to perform a sortie during the induction ceremony. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will hand over the first two Tejas aircraft to the Air Force which will make up the 'Flying Daggers' 45, the name of the first squadron of the LCA.
As promised by the Hindustan Aeronautics, four more will be joining the fleet this year and eight the next year and it will be a total of 20 fighters to a squadron. The squadron will be based in Bengaluru for the first two years before being moved to Sulur in Tamil Nadu. Though the Tejas has a foreign engine, Israeli radar and weapons and British ejection seat it also incorporates considerable Indian technologies like the fly-by-wire system which gives computer-controlled inputs to charter the flight of the aircraft.