{"id":89256,"date":"2019-09-14T17:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10136"},"modified":"2019-09-14T17:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T12:00:56","slug":"naval-variant-of-the-light-combat-aircraft-lca-tejas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/naval-variant-of-the-light-combat-aircraft-lca-tejas\/","title":{"rendered":"Naval variant of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The naval\nvariant of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has made a successful short\nlanding on the Shore Based Test Facility (SBTF) in Goa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Light Combat\nAircraft (LCA) Tejas:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a single-engine, delta wing, multirole\nlight fighter. <\/li><li>It has been built under the Light Combat\nAircraft (LCA) program, which began in the 1980s to replace India\u2019s aging\nMiG-21 fighters. It is manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About naval variant\nof the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It has stronger landing gears which can absorb\nforces exerted by the ski jump ramp during take-off. <\/li><li>It has the capability to be airborne within\n200m, as against 1000 m required for normal runways.<\/li><li>It has special flight control law mode and it\nalso allows hands-free take-off. This reduces the pilot\u2019s workload, as the\naircraft leaps from the ramp and then automatically puts the aircraft in an\nascending trajectory.<\/li><li>The naval LCA Tejas made its first flight in\nApril 2012. Two prototypes have been flying as part of the development. The\nfirst prototype (NP1) of the Naval LCA made a successful first flight from the\nSBTF in 2014.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\nInformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shore Based Test\nFacility (SBTF):<\/strong> It replicates the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. It\nis built specifically to train naval pilots in the complex manoeuvres of\nlanding on the short flight deck of an aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current status:<\/strong> The\nNavy currently operates Russian MiG-29K fighters from INS Vikramaditya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The naval variant of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has made a successful short landing on the Shore Based Test Facility (SBTF) in Goa. Facts: About Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas: It is a single-engine, delta wing, multirole light fighter. It has been built under the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) program, which began&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/naval-variant-of-the-light-combat-aircraft-lca-tejas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Naval variant of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[2259],"class_list":["post-89256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-lca-tejas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700796024,"cached_date":1701452982},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}