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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One thing modern fighters can’t do is handle stalls with those skinny wings. One glitch in the computer stabilizing system or a slight loss of power at slow speeds and they drop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPmTdPzDfF8&list=RDNSUPmTdPzDfF8&start_radio=1
WTF is a “light combat aircraft?” Is that a plane a pilot takes when he’s just not feeling it that day?
Maybe it has fricken’ LASERS mounted on its head!............... 😎
Sounds like the plane is the equivalent of ill tempered sea bass.
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