Tejas is a single-engine lightweight multi-role fighter jet.
It has been pegged as world’s smallest and lightest supersonic fighter.
• It is outcome of India’s LCA programme, which began in the 1983 to replace country’s aging MiG-21 fighters.
• It is a tailless and having compound delta wing design. It is
powered by a single engine.
• It is mounted with inbuilt MultiMode Radar (MMR), Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) systems.
• LCA Tejas has a limited reach of a little over 400-km. It will be
mainly used for close air-to-ground operations.
• LCA Tejas is not the first indigenous fighter to be inducted into the
IAF.
In April 1967, IAF had formed the first operational squadron
with the indigenous HF-24 Marut fighter.
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