DRDO Tejas

Will you please let me know Tejas Multirole Fighter plane is developed by DRDO, if yes can you please get some information?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

I would like to tell you that Tejas Multirole Fighter plane is developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and here I will get details for you.

The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Tejas Multirole Fighter plane is an Indian single-seat, single-jet engine, multi-role light fighter which has a tail-less compound delta-wing configuration, and gives it high maneuverability.

Prototypes
Aircraft already built and projected models to be built. Model designations, tail numbers and dates of first flight are shown.

Technology Demonstrators (TD)
TD-1 (KH2001) – 4 Jan 2001

TD-2 (KH2002) – 6 June 2002

Prototype Vehicles (PV)
PV-1 (KH2003) – 25 November 2003
PV-2 (KH2004) – 1 December 2005
PV-3 (KH2005) – 1 December 2006. This is the production variant.
PV-4
PV-5 (KH-T2009) – 26 November 2009 – Fighter/Trainer Variant
PV-6 (KH-T2010) - 8 November 2014 - Fighter/Trainer Variant.

Naval Prototypes (NP)
NP-1 (KH-T3001) – Two-seat Naval variant for carrier operations. Rolled out in July 2010.[143] NP-1 made its first flight on 27 April 2012.

NP-2 (KH3002) – First flight on 7 February 2015 with sky-jump take-off and arrested landing required in STOBAR carrier.

NP-3 & NP-4 – Single-seat LCA MK 2 Naval variant for carrier operations to be powered by the GE-414 engines. The design work on the two aircraft is nearly complete.

NP-5 – Another Single-seat LCA MK 1 Naval variant is planned so as to enhance the pace of certification process for Naval LCA.