Indien - Aktuelles zum LCA "Tejas" Programm

Habe' nochmal ein paar Fotos in den Tiefen meiner Festplatte gefunden ...

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Die angekündigten Kältetests waren angeblich sehr erfolgreich !


http://livefist.blogspot.com/2008/12...ds-in-leh.html

Na das ist doch mal was positives.

Wenn es jetzt noch ein Modell dazu gäbe, könnte man fast loslegen !

Hier ein netter "walk-around" von PV-3 (KH2005)

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/media/...ounds/PV3Walk/

Deino

Zwei kleine News:


1. Angeblich will die IAF 8 weitere Trainer des LCA noch mit dem aktuellen GE-F404-IN20 bestellen, um lieber die Maschine schnell einzuführen, als auf die endgültige Version mit neuem Triebwerk zu warten.

The IAF will shortly place an order with HAL for eight LCA Tejas twin-seat trainers, powered by the current GE-F404-IN20 engine. Therefore, the force will operate a total of 28 fighters (including the first batch of 20 single-seaters) with the current engine, the one that is unsuitable for any follow-on fighters since it doesn't provide enough thrust. The first twenty fighters will begin delivery by 2011. But following this, the production line will lie vacant for upto 12 months for HAL to re-tool and reconfigure its facilities to produce the LCA with a new and more powerful engine (possible the Eurojet or another). The IAF's rationale is that it doesn't really need an initial tranche of trainers powered by an uprated engine. Therefore, HAL can use the idling time between the two engine configurations, to build eight trainers powered by the IN20 itself.

Posted by Shiv Aroor at 6:39 AM
http://livefist.blogspot.com/2009/02...lca-tejas.html

Meiner Meinung nach ein sinnvoller Schritt.


2. Angeblich hat der/die/das :?! Tejas seine ersten Bombenabwürfe absolviert:

BANGALORE: In a milestone, a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas took off from here and for the first time dropped live stores (bombs) at a firing range.

The dropping of two 25-pounder bombs, with one striking the target and the other falling within the inner 25 yard circle, was undertaken by Prototype Vehicle-3 of the LCA programme.

The successful dropping of the light, marker bombs will enable the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) – designers of the fly-by-wire LCA – to not only prove the working of the aircraft’s flight control software for weapon drops and aiming, but also take forward the LCA’s weaponisation programme.

ADA officials said the flight control system software had to recognise and adjust for the dropping and still maintain the highly unstable flying platform’s handling qualities.

The software had to take into effect the added stores, asymmetric drops, increased sensitivity of the aircraft’s controls and still make sure that the movement of the aircraft’s centre of gravity was still well within limits.

Following this success, the ADA is planning to do as many similar sorties dropping both 25-pounder and 3-kg bombs over the next three days, analyse the results and then prepare for the next stage of the weaponisation programme.

The next stage of weapon trials will see the ADA and the Air Force taking the Tejas to Jamnagar in Gujarat, hopefully by the end of the month. Jamnagar has been chosen as its cross runways will allow the undertaking of both weapon and cross wind trials.

Posted by Ravi Sharma