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A dumb question: Can a MK1B be designed with 2x Dry Kaveri and conformal fuel tank for maritime training and backup fighter role?? The main area of concern, even if 50% payload deployment is achieved with LCA Navy, will be the range.

Bhai ab to year end hone ko aaya. Yet no official news of Astra MK1 integration in Tejas FOC 😞

Is it just me or Tejas is taking far sharper turns and performing more vigorously now? The vortices generated at lateral wings now are also better than what I'd seen in airshows before. I guess they've opened Tejas's flight envelop to max.

Here you go sir 😊

I truly support what you say. Today's lack of marketting PR and info warfare makes it apt for a worthy contendor like MK1A to be shown in negative light. And trust me, Pakistanis will do it even for free. With the shoddy and "ye old" camera skills of our sarkari cameramen(often showing more pics...

Any idea when will Astra be tested off Tejas MK1?

Can anyone update on how many MK1s delivered to IAF by HAL till date??

This is being done as a part of experimentation and data collection purpose. After complete realization, it will rather be a full time implementation on MK2. This will rather save us time when MK2 is ready.

Not enough funds are provided in any R&D sector of India. This is why you find jugaad tech in almost every Indian defence product. Moreover the biggest problem with this is: people appreciate such efforts hence more jugaad happens every now and then to save cost on stuffs. This used to be a...

That may be true for an empty config MK1 vs MK2(assuming canard remains parallel to wings). After all the pylons are loaded with mission specific armaments/equipments, the overall RCS of MK2 will easily exceed the MK1/1A(simply because of more exposed surfaces of attached components)

Wait...that display shows Tejas to be flying in the direction of test aircraft and not against it. So technically, the 1.5m2 RCS mentioned is for rear aspect. Frontal aspect of MK1 may very well be between 0.5-1 m².

Me shouting at IAF Gernails after reading such facts:

We do have 398km R-37 missiles for our AWACS destroying needs...how many numbers is still unknown.

I was thinking of more like putting a Tomahawk style gliding wings on SFDR design. When a target is lost in Mountains or terrain, the missile automatically gains altitude, deploys wing and turns itself towards last position of enemy all the while gliding at 0.7-0.8 mach and scanning the horizon...