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Light Combat Aircraft which was Named Tejas by Atal Bihari Vajpaee in 2001 when it took its 1st flight and Got IOC in2013 and FOC in 2015 is worlds smallest and lightest Supersonick Multi Role Fighter with such a huge Carbon Composites in Body & Skin
32 X LCA MK1 IOC & FOC in IAF Squad No 45 & 18 comossioned
83 LCA MK1A orderred of which 7 already made and under pre dilivery testing
and the best part is since first moeny relased in 1993 when this project started till the date last FOC standard LCA was diliverred and money for 99 GE404 engine was released not more than 3.8 Billion USD have been spent on entire project so that 3.8 Billion USD in 30 years thats less than 100 million USD per year on entire project and they bought 70 GE engines in that all those Toolings rigs and and differnt avionicks and Radars and weapons and telnmattterry instriuments and slaries to all those engineers and technicians and test pilots involved in the project
and today we have complete ecosystem deu to LCA project so its not just a Tiny fighter but something else for us as it has three more variants like MK1A , MK2 its twin engined verssion called TEDBF and 5th gen variant called AMCA
as or its useage well already one squadern is based in Kashmir while other is based in Rajasthan rest as and when they arrive and the thing is LCA was concieved to replace aging fleets of Mig21 & Mig27 as its basic roles were POINT DEFNCE , LIMITED AIR PATROL & LIMITED AIR ESCORT & LIGHT CAS/STRIKE roles but as of today it has better onboard electronick warfare suites than Mig29UPG and and better KU Band based SATCOM LINK & Software defined radio and On board oxygen genrating system so it can remain in air for long period of time with air to air refulings and it in single sortie carries more external load than combned external load capacity of 1Mig21+1Mig27