The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has approved Tejas Mark-2 Project. The CCS has sanctioned 6,500 crore rupees for designing and developing of Tejas Mark-2 fighter jet with prototypes, flight testing, and certification. The allocation comes in addition to the existing 2500 crore rupees sanctioned to HAL.
Salient features
- The advanced version of Tejas LCA will feature a series of additions to its flight and fight capabilities.
- Tejas 2.0 will be equipped with more powerful GE- F414 engines in the 98 Kilonewton thrust class, which will allow it to extend its flight range and carry additional payload and weapons as compared to the existing version.
- The payload capacity of the Tejas Mark-2 jet will be four tonnes as compared to three tonnes of the existing version.
- In addition to this, the new jet will also be equipped with an indigenously developed Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, which will be a major upgrade from the existing ELTA’s EL/M-2032 multi-mode radar.
- Tejas Mark-2 will fill a critical capability void. Therefore, it is essential that all stakeholders should need to work in tandem to ensure the timely induction of this aircraft into IAF.
