68. LCA (LIGHT COMBAT AIRCRAFT-TEJAS)

♤ The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) is an indigenous fighter aircraft developed by ADA with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited as its principal partner, in India.

♤ The air force variant christened Tejas is the smallest, light weight, multi role, single engine, tactical fighter aircraft with compound delta wing.

♤ LCA is being developed to the meet the versatile and stringent requirements of the Indian Air Force (IAF), as its front line multi mission tactical aircraft.

♤ LCA fighter has take-off clean weight of 9800 Kg and can carry external stores of up to 3500 kg.

♤ The special features of LCA fighter are compound delta Planform, Relaxed static stability, composite structure, fly-by-wire flight control system, glass cockpit, etc.

♤ LCA fighter can carry Air-to-Air missiles, Air-to-ground missiles, Anti-ship missiles, Laser guided Bombs, Drop Tanks, Night targeting pod, EW suite and bombs of various weights.

♤ LCA Tejas is an amalgamation of contemporary concepts and technologies which makes the aircraft very agile and carefree maneuvering capabilities.

♤ LCA fighter has excellent handling qualities and performance characteristics. It rockets off the runway and into the air in a mere 500 meters.