LCA TEJAS

LIGHT COMBAT AIRCRAFT

Yash Deepak Panchal

Batch 54
Avionics
 About
Tejas is a lightweight multirole jet
fighter developed by India. It is a
tailless, compound delta wing
design powered by a single engine.
It came from the LCA programme,
which began in the 1980s to
replace India's aging MiG-21
fighters
 History
The Tejas is the second supersonic fighter developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) after
the HAL HF-24 Marut. Production of the Tejas Mark 1 for the Indian Air Force (IAF) began in 2016, at
which time the naval version was undergoing flight tests for Indian Navy (IN). The projected
requirement for the IAF was 200 single-seat fighters and 20 twin-seat trainers, while the IN expected to
operate at least 40 single-seat fighters. The first Tejas IAF unit, No. 45 Squadron IAF Flying
Daggers was formed on 1 July 2016 with two aircraft. Initially stationed at Bangalore, No. 45
Squadron was later relocated to its home base at Sulur, Tamil Nadu.The Minister of State for Defence, 
Subhash Bhamre, reported to parliament that the indigenous content of the Tejas was 59.7% by value
and 75.5% by number of line replaceable units in 2016.
As of 2019, the Indian Air Force has planned for a total of 324 Tejas in several variants. The first batch
of 40 Mark 1 aircraft consists of 16 Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) standard that were delivered in
early 2019. The delivery of the second batch of 16 Full Operational Clearance (FOC) standard aircraft
commenced in late 2019 and led to formation of the second Tejas squadron — No. 18 Squadron IAF
 Flying Bullets — in Sulur on 27 May 2020. The IAF will also go on to receive eight twin-seat
trainers. The next 83 are to be to the upgraded Mark 1A standard. By the time these first 123 are
delivered, the Tejas Mark 2 is expected to be ready for series production by 2025–26.
 Modification
To meet air staff qualitative requirements (ASQR) of the Indian Air Force (IAF), ADA had to make
substantial changes to the basic Mark1 and Mark 1A air-frame to improve payload and
performance in the more advanced upgrade called Tejas Mark 2. Initially they had planned to
simply elongate the Mark 1 with a 0.5 m fuselage plug to hold more fuel, while fitting a more
powerful General Electric F414-GE-INS6 engine with 64–98 KN of thrust.
To be renamed eventually, the Mark 2, which is now classified as a medium-weight fighter, is also
to feature an indigenous integrated life support system-onboard oxygen generation system
(ILSS-OBOGS) weighing 14.5 kg which uses pressure swing adsorption technique and a built-in
integrated electro-optic electronic warfare suite among other improvements to avionics. The
oxygen generation system is developed by 
Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory (DEBEL). It will have an 
infra-red search and track (IRST) system and a missile approach warning system (MAWS). An
increase in payload capacity to 6,500 kg (14,300 lb), and an increase in number of weapons
stations from 7 to 11, will allow the MWF to carry more weapons. 
Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) is developing aircraft 
health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) to integrate various sensors onboard Tejas Mark 2.
It was reported in March 2020 that HAL planned to set up logistic facilities in Indonesia, Malaysia,
Sri Lanka and Vietnam as part of potentially exporting the Tejas.
Specifications
Dimensions
Wing Span 8.2m
Length 13.2m
Overall Height 4.4m
Weights
Take-Off Weight (Clean) 9500 kg
Take-Off Weight (max) 13200 kg
Aircraft Performance
Max. Speed Mach 1.6
Max ‘g’ +8 to -3.5
Service Ceiling 15 km
 ENGINE

F404-GE-IN20
Dimensions:
Diameter 890 mm,
Length 3.9 m

Weights:
Max Weight 1,035 kg

Engine Performance:
Thrust 9,163 kg
 Material
COMPOSITE
3%
MATERIALS
Most of the parts of the LCA
All-Alloy
43% T-Alloy Tejas are made up of Carbon
43% Steels
CFC composites which assure
Others
ultimate agility along with it
being very light in weight.
5% 5%
Most of it is made up of :-
Glass Composite
Aluminum
Kevlar Composite
Carbon Composite
 COMPOUND
DELTA WING
The Tejas is a tailless, compound delta
plan form. This plan form is designed to
keep the Tejas small and lightweight. The
use of this plan form also minimizes the
control surfaces needed (no tail planes or
fore planes, just a single vertical tailfin),
permits carriage of a wider range of
external stores, and confers better close-
combat, high-speed, and high-alpha
performance characteristics than
conventional wing designs. Extensive
wind tunnel testing on scale models and
complex computational fluid dynamics
analyses have optimised the aerodynamic
configuration of the LCA, giving it
minimum supersonic drag, a low wing-
loading, and high rates of roll and pitch.
REFERENC
ES
• http://www.tejas.gov.in/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Tejas
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_number
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_takeoff_weight
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingspan
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