Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019

[rajsunder]

How true is that the HAL/ADA wants to go with the regular route of Limited service Production aircraft instead of directly going to FOC?

Tejas Mk2 LS aircraft to be made, 24 Tejas Mk2 to be made every year

[drnayar]

3D render of Tejas Mk2 by Kuntal Biswas, @kuntal__biswas, Twitter

[Kakkaji]

How true is that the HAL/ADA wants to go with the regular route of Limited service Production aircraft instead of directly going to FOC?

Tejas Mk2 LS aircraft to be made, 24 Tejas Mk2 to be made every year

You will need the LSPs for testing, certification, and updates.

[Kartik]

How true is that the HAL/ADA wants to go with the regular route of Limited service Production aircraft instead of directly going to FOC?

Tejas Mk2 LS aircraft to be made, 24 Tejas Mk2 to be made every year

You will need the LSPs for testing, certification, and updates.

Not necessarily. The plan was to build 5 Tejas Mk2 prototypes. All of which would be built to the final serial production standard.

The Tejas LCA program was very different given the level of technological readiness that ADA, HAL, DRDO labs had at that time. Which is why the TD was needed to prove some critical technologies, followed by PVs. However, as the program progressed, the scope of testing required was understood and it could simply not be met by just the PV series since the TDs were essentially outdated, with older gen F-404-F2J3 engines that lacked FADEC for e.g.

Tejas Mk2 prototypes will see all avionics, radar, EW suite, engine, etc. at a very similar spec to what is envisioned for the serial production variants. There may be changes here or there as testing progresses but envelope expansion, testing various systems, etc. will be conducted on those 5 Tejas Mk2 prototypes. Expect at least 3000-4000 hours of testing to prove out the various systems. All of which could be handled by the 5 prototypes.