Posted on 03/12/2024 8:25:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
An Indian Air Force (IAF) light combat aircraft "Tejas" performs during the Indian Air Force Day celebrations at the Hindon Air Force Station on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, October 8, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File
NEW DELHI, March 12 (Reuters) - A domestically made fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed on Tuesday in the western state of Rajasthan, the first such incident since the jet was inducted nearly eight years ago.
The pilot ejected safely, the air force said in a statement.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has been pushing for local manufacturing as India seeks to shed its reputation as one of the world's biggest importers of defence equipment.
The light combat jet, called Tejas, meaning flame or brilliance in Sanskrit, was inducted into the force in 2016 after a long wait in India's efforts to modernise its largely Soviet-era fleet.
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Tejas? Aviation Ping!..............................
Tejas means “sharpness”, “lustre”, or “brilliance” in many Indian languages. ....................
1950s airframe design with 1970s engine technology. Better make a whole lot of them.
“India-made fighter jet Tejas crashes for first time”- they can crash more than once? That’s one tough airplane!
Back in September, we had an F-35 do the same thing in South Carolina, a crash after a pilot ejected safely.
Missing F-35 jet was flying 'inverted' before crash, eyewitnesses say NBC, Sept. 20, 2023
Ejection seats....
Lone Star Fighter
I thought the title was a bit strangely worded:
“...fighter jet Tejas crashes for first time...”
How many aircraft crash more than once?............... 🤔🤦♂️
I thought the title was a bit strangely worded:
“...fighter jet Tejas crashes for first time...”
How many aircraft crash more than once?............... 🤔🤦♂️
Apparently ‘Tejas’ is a word in more than one language!............
Well, back to the ole drawing board!
A fine question, suggesting that today's "journalists" aren't.
Reuters. Two writers and two editors to put this news out. Nice photo from October 8, 2019. "Reporting by Tanvi Mehta and Krishn Kaushik; Editing by YP Rajesh and Bernadette Baum."
Before answering in detail your question, do you mean before or after the first bounce? :)
Its so old, its new again!
But really, the hyper-agility thing may have come and gone. The Tejas has advanced (more or less) avionics, a nice radar, look-down-shoot down capability vs cruise missiles and etc., long range missiles (MBDA ASRAAM).
And in theory anyway, if it weren’t for its interminable development time, probably cheap.
Indeed so. Being cheap means there can be many more produced. And remember, we didn’t have the best stuff in WW II, but we did have the ability to produce a h*ll of a lot of each unit. The F-35 may be a top of the line fighter, but there are few of them, and each is useless without equally expensive missiles. In addition, each has electronics which require replacement, not repair when (not if) things go microsoft on it.
One crash after 8 years of flying does not sound much worse than record of United States military aircraft history of crashes.
Any complicated machine will fail at any time. Even multi-Billion dollar spacecrafts blow up occasionally.
The US has quite a lot of F35’s. Over 1000 have been delivered to date (a large number to allies), and the production rate is remarkable for a current fighter, 150+ annually.
Just wait until you read “...fighter jet Tejas crashes for SECOND time...”
Apparently editors are no longer necessary in publishing...................
Yeah. That plus the fact we've been supplying Pakistan with advanced weapons for six decades.
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