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HAL to get 62,000 crore order for 97 more light combat aircraft Mk-1A jets

The IAF is concerned about the current pace of the LCA Mk-1A programme
Updated on Aug 20, 2025 06:19 am IST

Advanced version of Tejas light combat aircraft makes its debut flight

Tejas light combat aircraft made its debut flight.
Updated on Mar 18, 2020 05:12 am IST

After receiving India’s first Rafale jet, Rajnath takes off for sortie

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on board a Rafale fighter jet in France.
Updated on Jul 08, 2020 06:55 am IST

It was ‘textbook landing’: Sources on naval LCA Tejas DRDO testing

Airport ground staff stand besides Tejas, India's first locally-built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), before its induction into the Indian Air Force at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Airport in Bengaluru.
Updated on Sept 14, 2019 07:52 am IST

HAL union threatens strike after wage hike talks with management fails

The talks were held on Saturday, two months after the union held a relay hunger strike protesting against disparity in the perks offered to executives and workers.
Updated on Aug 27, 2019 01:32 am IST

Long-awaited indigenous light combat aircraft Tejas Mk II targeted by 2022

Tejas fighter aircraft performs during Aero India 2019, at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru . (ANI photo)
Updated on Aug 23, 2019 12:06 pm IST

Short of fighter planes, IAF eyes 21 MiG-29 jets and air-defence aircraft

A MiG-29 fighter jet
Updated on Apr 04, 2019 07:12 pm IST

‘Manohar Parrikar played crucial role in reviving Rafale deal’: Rajnath Singh

Singh also recalled how Parrikar ‘alone’ solve the one rank one pension issue.
Updated on Apr 26, 2020 01:50 am IST

Key Pulwama planner killed in gunfight: Army

FILE PHOTO: Indian soldiers stand guard near the site of Thursday's suicide bomb attack in Lethpora in south Kashmir's Pulwama district February 15, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Ismail/File Photo
Updated on Mar 11, 2019 10:28 pm IST

HAL places order with French defence company for 135 rocket launchers to equip Indian armed forces

Thales’s fully certified, field-proven, competitive rocket launchers are suitable for use on both light and combat helicopters, the company said.
Updated on Feb 21, 2019 05:42 pm IST

3 Rafale jets fly to India for Bengaluru air show

French aerospace major Dassault Aviation flew to India three Rafale fighters to participate in the 12th edition of Aero India 2019 air show from February 20-24.
Published on Feb 14, 2019 05:46 pm IST

Big-ticket orders at heart of HAL row still in initial stage

Responding to Rahul Gandhi’s accusation that she was lying about procurement orders worth Rs 1 lakh crore for HAL, Nirmala Sitharaman had said that contracts worth Rs 73,000 crore were in pipeline and those worth Rs 26,570 crore already placed.
Published on Jan 08, 2019 08:07 am IST

HAL gets nod to produce weaponised version of LCA Tejas

Airport ground staff stand besides Tejas, India's first locally-built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Airport in Bengaluru.
Updated on Jan 04, 2019 02:28 pm IST

Amid Rafale row, Mallikarjun Kharge-led parliamentary panel slams HAL for ‘failure’ to provide enough Tejas

Tejas is an indigenously developed single-engine light combat aircraft. The programme to design, develop and manufacture the LCA was sanctioned by the government in 1983.
Updated on Dec 14, 2018 11:58 pm IST

Top Indian Air Force officials to hold talks with HAL

Last week, IAF chief BS Dhanoa questioned the ability of HAL to deliver fighter jets on schedule, detailing the time overrun in several crucial programmes including the Sukhoi-30s, Jaguars, Mirage-2000s and the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA).
Updated on Oct 11, 2018 11:19 pm IST

CSIR tech to make combat aircraft Tejas 20% lighter

Technology indigenously developed by a government laboratory for manufacturing carbon components will make India’s light combat aircrafts 20% lighter.
Updated on Aug 24, 2018 07:18 am IST

Boeing sees two-year wait for bagging India’s 110 fighter jet order

An F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, manufactured by Boeing Co., taxis on the tarmac during the Australian International Airshow. The Indian govt said it would consider twin-engine aircraft such as Boeing’s twin-engine F/A-18 Super Hornet for the deal.
Updated on Jun 04, 2018 01:25 pm IST

Tejas carries out successful test-firing of BVR missile

Indian Air Force’s Tejas fighter plane performs a manoeuvre at the Air Force Station in Hindon, Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi.
Updated on Apr 28, 2018 05:15 pm IST