📋 Tender Overview
Contract Awarded for Produce 83 The Light Combat Aircraft Tejas LCA Mark-1A and Mark-2 and 114 new fighter jets.Contract Awarded November 2019Indian Air Force IAF in the next decade as other jets are phased out and before the indigenous fifth-generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft AMCA is ready.The IAF is looking at speeding up the production of the LCA by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited HAL.We are taking delivery of the last four aircraft in the Initial Operational Configuration IOC. We are expecting to receive 5-6 LCAs in the Final Operational Configuration FOC by March this financial year a senior IAF source states. The contract for 83 LCA Mark-1A will be signed this financial year. the source added.The AMCA being designed and developed by the Aeronautical Development Agency ADA with the IAFs support is expected to make the first flight in 2032.
