Thirty-two years after the project was sanctioned, the first indigenously-built Tejas Light Combat Aircraft was on Saturday handed over by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to the Indian Air......
The first aircraft in the Limited Series Production of Tejas, indigenous Light Combat Aircraft, (LSP-1), has made its successful maiden flight at the HAL airport in Bangalore. LSP-1 is the first......
At 3 pm on February 7, 2009, it was "all systems go" at the Aeronautical Development Agency in Bangalore, the organisation developing India's Light Combat Aircraft. I sat by the runway, watching......
IMAGE: The Tejas Mark 1A takes off during its maiden flight at HAL Nashik, October 17, 2025. All photographs: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters India's indigenous fighter jet programme reached a key......
A Tejas fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed in a ball of fire on Friday during an aerial display at the Dubai Air Show killing the lone pilot, in the second accident involving the......
There is a good chance that Bachubhai Patel's contribution to the security of the Indian skies will never be recorded. A pity, considering his role in India's first light combat aircraft, the......
In a last-minute twist, General Electric of the US has bagged the hotly contested $800-million tender to supply 99 engines for India's Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA). After both engines in the......
HAL's order book amounts to Rs 2.45 trillion by end of Q2FY26, implying a book-to-bill ratio of 32 times based on FY25 revenue. IMAGE: The indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas. Photograph: ANI......
News reports that GE Aerospace has delivered the first of 99 F404-IN20 engines ordered by Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) for the Tejas Mk-1A has revived interest in the HAL stock. IMAGE: Light Combat......
Aeron Systems, founded in 2008 by Ashvani Shukla and Abhijit Bokil, is looking to contribute to programmes such as the Tejas light combat aircraft Small, ultra-high-tech companies such as Aeron......
Ace Indian shuttler P V Sindhu became the first woman to do a sortie in the indigenously built Light Combat Aircraft, Tejas, at the Aero India 2019 in Bengaluru, February 23, 2019. Women's Day was......