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But nowhere it says how many airframes have been manufactured so far, and how may are now planned to be manufactured by Mar'25 - only some generic stmts like:
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HAL Chairman and MD further stated that the latancy by GE does not affect HAL's manufacturing activities of the aircraft.
"We will build the aircraft; we will get them ready adn I'm sure we will be able to sort out this supply issue with General Electric," he added.
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Proud to announce the successful handover of the Air Intake Assembly to HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Division! This milestone reaffirms LMW's dedication to India's self-reliance in aerospace with precision-engineered solutions. #LMW #MakeInIndia #AerospaceEngineering
HAL’s LCA Tejas Division signed an MoU with Lakshmi Machine Works Limited (LMW) to manufacture 40 sets of Air Intake Assembly for LCA Tejas MK1A on October 19, 2022 during DefExpo 2022 at Gandhinagar.
You need 6-8 engines to fulfill Mk1A requirements. Instead of Cat B use Tejas Mk1 trainer engines and deliver trainers later. The trainers are any way not urgent but important.
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There would be that many on the production/assembly lines at various stages of completion. Current assembly capacity is around 16 units with further expansion to 24 in the works.
The integration testing of homegrown actuators of Tejas has commenced at the national Iron Bird facility of HAL's Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC) in Bengaluru. Sources aware of this development confirm to #WriteTake that the time and frequency domain to test the integrity of the digital flight control
computer (DFCC) with the flight control system (FCS) actuators, the flight control software
version of DFCC under test shall be certified by CEMILAC. This they say would pave way for the
developmental flight testing of the DFCC along with a pair of #elevon actuators on a LSP aircraft.
This milestone reaffirms LMW's dedication to India's self-reliance in aerospace with precision-engineered solutions. 
#LMW #MakeInIndia #AerospaceEngineering
