Indian HAL LCA Tejas Vs Chinese Chengdu J-10 Comparison
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Indian HAL LCA Tejas Vs
Chinese Chengdu J-10 Comparison .
HAL Tejas
The HAL Tejas is an Indian single-seat, single-jet engine, multi-role light fighter designed by the
Aeronautical Development Agency (
ADA) and
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the
Indian Air Force and
Navy. The aircraft has a tail-less compound delta-wing configuration, which gives it high maneuverability. It came from the
Light Combat Aircraft (
LCA) programme, which began in the
1980s to replace
India's ageing MiG-21 fighters. LCA was officially named "Tejas" in
2003, meaning "
Radiant" in Sanskrit by the then
Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Tejas has a pure double delta wing configuration (wing root leading edge sweep 50°, outer wing leading edge sweep 62.5° and trailing edge forw@rd sweep 4°), with no tailplanes or canard, and a single dorsal fin. It integrates technologies such as relaxed static stability, fly-by-wire flight control system, multi-mode radar, integrated digital avionics system, composite material structures, and a flat rated engine. It is the smallest and lightest in its class of contemporary supersonic combat aircraft.
The Tejas is the second supersonic fighter developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) after the
HAL HF-24 Marut.
As of 2016 the Tejas
MK1 was in production for the Indian Air Force (
IAF) and the naval version was undergoing flight tests for
Indian Navy (IN). The projected requirement for IAF is
200 single-seat fighters and 20 twin-seat trainers, while the IN expects to operate 40 single-seat fighters. The first Tejas IAF unit,
No. 45 Squadron IAF Flying Daggers was formed on 1 July 2016 with two aircraft. Initially being stationed at
Bangalore, the first squadron will be placed at its home base at
Sulur,
Tamil Nadu.
Chengdu J-10
The Chengdu J-10 is a lightweight multirole fighter aircraft capable of all-weather operation, configured with a delta wing and canard design, with fly-by-wire flight controls, and produced by the
People's Republic of China's
Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (
CAC) for the
People's Liberation Army Air Force (
PLAAF). The
Pakistan Air Force is the only export customer for the
J-10.
The program was authorized by
Deng Xiaoping who allocated ¥ 0.5 billion to develop an indigenous aircraft.
Work on
Project #10 started several years later in
January 1988, as a response to the
Mikoyan MiG-29 and
Sukhoi Su-27 then being introduced by the
USSR, and
F-15,
F-16 already in service in the
United States.
Development was delegated to the 611
Institute, also known as the
Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute and
Song Wencong was nominated as the chief designer, as he had previously been the chief designer of the J-7III. The aircraft was initially designed as a specialized fighter, but later became a multirole aircraft capable of both air-to-air combat and ground attack mi$$ions.
The J-10 resembles the
IAI Lavi and is reported to be developed from the US F-16 with assistance from
Israeli engineers.
The general designer Song Wencong said that J-10 was a development of the indigenous
J-9 which preceded the Lavi. This was echoed by a PLAAF's major
Zhang Weigang in a
2012 interview.
In
2006, the
Russian Siberian Aeronautical
Research Institute (SibNIA) confirmed its participation in the J-10 program; SibNIA claimed to have only observed and instructed as "scientific guides", while its engineers also believed the J-10 was "more or less a version" of the Lavi design, incorporating "a melting pot of foreign technology and acquired design methods".
The J-10 was officially unveiled by the
Chinese government in
January 2007, when photographs were published by
Xinhua News Agency. The aircraft's existence was known long before the announcement, although concrete details remained scarce due to secrecy. A J-10 prototype was speculated to have possibly crashed during flight testing. Xinhua News Agency and the
PLA Daily denied such rumors, and listed this as one of the test pilots' accomplishments.
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