AMCA for IAF on hold due to Light Combat Aircraft

: Despite enormous political pressure in India to get the locally made LCA (Light Combat Aircraft or "Tejas") jet fighter into production the government has quietly delayed that for at least two more years. Production was supposed to begin at the ...

Four flights in one year. That's the flight track record of the naval variant of Light Combat Aircraft -LCA Navy (NP-1) since it made its maiden flight on April 27 last year in Bangalore. Four flights in one year. That’s the flight track record of the ...

Troubles in India's ambitious Light Combat Aircraft project have inflicted gaping wounds on the Indian Air Force (IAF) where it would hurt the most — plans for an Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA). The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has put on ...

Major projects of the DRDO, including light combat aircrafts (LCA) and airborne early warning system, are running behind schedule by up to 13 years.

At the recently concluded 37th Directors Conference, Defense Minister AK Antony asked DRDO (Defense Research & development Organization) to speed up work on the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), and not to extend the date of final ...

The Norwegian government has confirmed plans to acquire up to 52 Lockheed Martin F-35A combat aircraft, and submitted a formal request to the nation's parliament for its first six operational examples. The administration in Oslo has already ...

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Though it already proved it could stick the landing, the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System, prototype fighter drone, took another historic flight by being the first-ever unmanned aircraft to be launched from an an aircraft carrier. The X-47B was ...

THIS week the Navy will launch an entirely autonomous combat drone - without a pilot on a joystick anywhere - off the deck of an aircraft carrier, the George HW Bush. The drone will then try to land aboard the same ship, a feat only a relatively few ...