10+ Incredible Facts About The HAL TEJAS Fighter Jet

 Hello, and Welcome In one of the recent blog we looked at the HAL Tejas and compared it to the of-17 and tried to see some of the differences about this aircraft while finding some similarities between the two but today I'm just gonna dedicate this whole video to India's made HAL Tejas fighter and Discover a little bit more about the aircraft and find out what is unique about it. 

How's it going, everybody? We're a look at people cultures and places from all around the world now today pretty excited Because yeah, I like the hell tears I think it's really interesting that India has its own unique fighter that kind of makes it very special For the people who might be watching this video that are from India but more specifically I like to do stuff that a lot of you guys recommend so You know going into this spider seems to be something that I know you guys will really like With that, by the way, before I get into this video if you guys are into military playlists just to let you know Although we have a diverse amount of content here on MTV facts If you want to know more specifically about Indian military topics I got some playlists throughout this video that I'll put in the cards in the description box below that you guys can check out at Any time, but I'll talk a little bit more about that because I kind of want to get into the facts But I just want to let you guys know the kind of stuff that we do here in case you felt like hitting that subscribe Button at any time in this blog. So let's just jump right into it So we got the Hal Tejas it is classified as a single-seat single-engine Multi-role fighter and for the facts, you might be wondering why is it sometimes called the LC a well? 

There's a reason for that this is because this fighter was developed under what was known as the light combat aircraft program which was a development program Conducted by India for a long time and I'm going to get into that however as for the name to jazz it didn't get this name until about 2003 now one thing that is super important when it comes to the Hal Tejas is it is classified as a Supersonic fighter and not only that but it is the second Supersonic fighter that was developed by an Indian company and this company is known as the famous Hindustan aeronautics company also not only that it's also the smallest and a lightest supersonic aircraft of any of its type in the entire world And yes When I say small it is a rather small aircraft because for the size of this aircraft It comes in at a height of four point four zero meters with a length of thirteen point two zero meters and a width or wingspan of eight point two zero Which makes it just a little bit smaller than some other craft of its type now Let's take a look at why this aircraft was built in the first place pretty much back in the day India knew that it needed to develop a new fighter that would replace its ever aging mig-21 because by the 1980s they eventually knew that the mig-21s would be completely outdated despite the amount of upgrades that they would receive and in the 1980s this was realistically the beginning of the light combat aircraft program specifically actually in 1989 when the LCA program review committee was formed and for the development of its own unique aircraft by 1993 the first proof of concept for the spider was brought in as a matter of fact the first two proof-of-concept Aircrafts that were made were known as TD 1 and TD 2 and for TD 1 it had its first flight on January 4th 2001 in which shortly after prototypes emerged from that and the cost of this first real phase up program came to approximately 2188 crore. 

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So one thing when it came to the light combat aircraft Programme India tried to develop a lot of different things on their own instead of used technology from other countries One thing that was definitely heavily in production was India's very own fly-by-wire program which began development in 1992 also for what? We now know as the Hal Tejas it was originally intended to have an Indian made radar system and although that might have been developed there was, unfortunately, some Compatibility issues so they had to move on to something else with that Hindustan aeronautics company went with the Israeli radar known as the Alta systems using the specific radar system known as the LM 2032 however in 2008 that's actually changed especially In the mark 1a version because these new health ashes they use what is known as the LM 2052 version, however, It is still an Israeli-made radar but to jump back a little bit after several tests in 2005 the Indian air force put an order for 20 of these fighters Now this actually didn't really mean it was actually cleared for the air force A lot of testing happened after this, as a matter of fact, the first real maiden flight of this first limited series production known as LSP one took place in Hansa Goa on April 25th, 2007 in which the aircraft reached a speed of Mach 1.1. And it was shortly after that that the Indian Navy had intended to purchase 50 of these aircraft however the first prototype known as n p1 was given to them in July of 2010 and it was actually about a year after that the IAF the Indian Air Force pretty much kind of approved the design of this fighter This is because on January 10th of 2011 It was approved for initial operation clearance by the air force shortly after that the naval version made its first flight on April 27, 2012, Unfortunately, the naval version wasn't accepted I'm going to get into that because I'm going to talk a little bit about variants a little bit further on Because it was around this time. 

That although the Indian Air Force had given initial operation clearance This didn't mean it had final operation clearance And that's what you really want as a fighter as a matter of fact the major campaign for final operation clearance began in 2013 but I found it very interesting. And yes also unfortunate that because of several setbacks Final operation clearance wasn't given - the hell - yes until recently, as a matter of fact, February 20th, 2019 Insane that's a lot of years man I mean that fighter is just going through the wringer and the part that I found really fascinating about this is although it wasn't given final operation clearance until recent the IAF had all a lot of interest in this fighter as a matter of fact in 2015 they purchased 120 of them and as a matter of fact in 2011, they had their first squadron formed This was known as the Flying Daggers or number 45 squad Which operated out of the yellow Hakka air base in Bangalore? I should also update you guys and let you know that this squadron has now moved to the seller air force station in Coin Betar, as a matter of fact as of February 1st 2019 this squadron has 14 of these aircrafts but by the end of the year its planned to have another two of the Initially cleared fighters and they also plan to add Sixteen of the finally cleared aircraft to join by the end of the year also It's a rather new aircraft to the rest of the world because it was internationally debuted in 2016 and this was at the Bahrain International Air Show so now let's just take a quick peek at versions and some of the specifications now in my previous Blog I did talk about that So I'm gonna kind of go through this one really quick because for some of you guys have already seen this kind of information I don't want to be repeating a lot of facts So first of all, you have your initial version on top of that there's a trainer version which is a two seater You've also got the Navy versions which I did state in 2016 it unfortunately failed to meet the requirements in weight basically, they found that this aircraft was too heavy for the aircraft carriers and in 2017 they're gonna get a new test to see if they will work the more recent version the mk1 a is unfortunately more expensive However, it has new radar and a bunch of other upgrades the mk2 has been recently displayed in 2019 it is slightly bigger with a larger payload and has a more powerful engine and speaking about engine let's take a look at speed the fastest that this thing has clocked comes in at mach 1.8 with a range of 850 kilometers and a combat radius of 500 kilometers and with that when we look at the engines one interesting fact Is that the original aircrafts use the american-made general electric f404? Engine. However, remember how I said the LCA was aiming to make, you know, Indian-made products for these planes Well one thing that came out of that was also an engine Unfortunately, it wasn't the best. 

This was known as the Kaveri engine and unfortunately It didn't meet the requirements but on a side note which some of you guys you know Your plant enthusiasts might find this very interesting The actual engine itself couldn't be tested in India and actually had to go to Russia The reason for this is because India unfortunately didn't have the facilities built in to test its high altitude abilities and apparently with that Russia used the Tu-16 aircraft to conduct this test and of course when it comes to specifications We got to talk about weapons now currently this aircraft can use nine different types of weapons Basically, you have the 23 millimeter gun in the front and of course you have eight hard points which are located under the wings And the fuselage and can either be bombs missiles or whatever you feel as for the entire program cost Including its research phase one and phase two It came in at seven thousand nine hundred and sixty five point five six crore and for an individual fighter Let's look at the mark 1 and the mark 1a basically the mark 1 comes in at 162 crore which is approximately 23 million dollars And of course I'm talking us but here let's take a look at the mark 1a it really jumps in price because the mark 1a jumps way up to 463 crore or approximately 64 million US dollars Which basically that's about the cost of a Saab Gripen, but either way guysI want to thank you guys for tuning in and learning about the HAL Tejas I hope you guys like this Blog And again, if you really like this one, you want more, you know military content Be sure to hit that like button because hey, that's how I know you guys are interested. Of course, I want to know what is your thoughts on this aircraft? 

I also want to know what is your favorite aircraft, and I also want to know just for fun What aircraft can this aircraft beat? Let me know your thoughts down there Oh, yeah, by the way, I also forgot to mention that as a matter of fact when it comes to the health issues one interesting thing over 70% of this aircraft is made in India Forgot that fact, it's pretty cool you but thanks for watching guys I'll see you guys in the next one and don't forget to check out our other videos Up there down there and at the end of this Blog cool.