Today LCA got FOC

[Avisheik]

Well congrats! It took a while but its finally battle ready.

But only 40 air frames seems kinda minuscule compared to the effort put in. I know there is a MK.2 version, how far is it from getting the FOC?

 

[proud_indian]

Well congrats! It took a while but its finally battle ready.

But only 40 air frames seems kinda minuscule compared to the effort put in. I know there is a MK.2 version, how far is it from getting the FOC?

83 more in MK1-A configuration

 

[Aryan0395]

Well congrats! It took a while but its finally battle ready.

But only 40 air frames seems kinda minuscule compared to the effort put in. I know there is a MK.2 version, how far is it from getting the FOC?

40 is MK1, 83 Mk1A are already on order, delivery of which is to start after Mk1 are delivered.

 

[Trango Towers]

Allah ka hukum

to fall out the sky like flies.
i hope you ditch all aircraft and go with this tejas

 

[AfrazulMandal]

to fall out the sky like flies.
i hope you ditch all aircraft and go with this tejas

It's a damn good bird. You will be making a mistake if you ignore it.

 

[Trango Towers]

pakistanis comments are like their country achieved impossible in engineering and technology and they can comment on us....

you have moon on your flag, my flag is on moon.... get the difference

but you still have no toilet and your woman's butt is seen by everyone. get the difference.
Pakistani's unlike indians simply cannot create a square wheel

It's a damn good bird. You will be making a mistake if you ignore it.

so good its still not wanted by the airforce or the navy but forced upon them by the politicians

 

[Hellfire]

40 is MK1, 83 Mk1A are already on order, delivery of which is to start after Mk1 are delivered.

Incorrect. Mk1A is in advanced stage of procurement.. price being decided.

 

[Trango Towers]

Dum nahi tha .... ( nothing in this reply to agitate me) ... learn something new kid....

Looool when u are an you will be treated as yes

 

[Deino]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1098190881847414784

Pardon to be sceptical, but honestly, how realistically is this?

Name any international Air Force that introduces a new type in very limited numbers - and we have to remember so far not much more than a dozen Tejas are delivered - and call them to have reached not only IOC but also FOC?

I know, much has been written, the Tejas might have reached IOC even before reaching frontline squadron service, but hey ... usually a new type is delivered to a dedicated OCU to train pilots and ground grew, to perfect manuals and flight procedures and for that you need a certain number of flying planes and flight numbers, lots of flight numbers. Only then you reach IOC and later FOC after even more years of operational training, exercises and hours of hours.

Just look at the Rafale, the €-Fighter, the F-22 and F-35, all had a long and sometimes arduous operational conversion period until they were then delivered AFTER THAT to a first front line unit.
I remember the jokes some made, when the PLAAF gained the first J-20s in late 2016 introduced in a dedicated training unit (176th Brigade at Dingxin) and even after the second unit at Cangzhou (172nd Brigade) was formed in 2017 most external observers were sceptical or even joking, how on earth the PLAAF could call them "operational".
Even now with the first true front line unit established and surely several more J-20s delivered than Tejas flying, some still remain reluctant to call the J-20 as FOC but India magically managed to directly deliver just a few birds directly to a frontline unit and whoops, they have reached FOC.

Come on ... given the otherwise not that "astonishing" track record of the Indian Aerospace Industry I really have my doubts, regardless what is written and to admit, not a single of these arguments mentioned in several forums convinced me why the IAF managed in less time something no other Air Force achieved with a comparable type.

Best,
Deino

 

[Reichsmarschall]

Congratulations I am genuinely happy for our boy teja slow and steady wins the race keep it up boy this is just the beginning

 

[Srinivas]

@Srinivas @Robinhood Pandey

@fsayed @thesolar65

Thanks for tagging me!

At last , a good moment of joy for Indians especially HAL.

 

[Pakistani Aircraft]

Well done for inventing a flying rickshaw.

 

[Sharky]

This shitty named ugly looking Teja abomination should have never been designed. All members involved in its development and their family must be shot.

 

[Mentee]

Tell me if the o. P title sounds funny

 

[SSGcommandoPAK]

Congratz !!!