As per India's Press Information Bureau report, engineers and technicians at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd’s (HAL) LCA-Tejas Division have finally completed the extremely complex integration of the aerial refueling probe on to the Tejas fighter.
LCA Tejas Limited Series Production-8 (LSP-8) is fitted with air-to-air probe, supplied by UK-based Cobham, is being fixed in front of the canopy and on the right side of the aircraft.
Similar to Mirage, Tejas too will have a fixed aerial refueling probe. The pressure refueling process on LSP-8
and SP-1 have already been demonstrated. Last year, the naval LCA (NP2) underwent ‘hot refueling at HAL facilities. Both were mandatory tests ahead of fixing the fuel probe.
HAL has the expertise in fixing mid-air fuel probes on Jaguar trainers. The work share for this critical integration work is being split between Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC), Tata Advanced System Laboratories (TASL) and LCA Tejas Division.
In a Feb 2017 flight test HAL/ADA had collected air data and to monitor aircraft performance in its flight. LSP-8 has gone through structural modifications along with software updates and Ground-based trials of IFR has been carried out and refuelling process already has been demonstrated.
In a Feb 2017 flight test HAL/ADA had collected air data and to monitor aircraft performance in its flight. LSP-8 has gone through structural modifications along with software updates and Ground-based trials of IFR has been carried out and refuelling process already has been demonstrated.
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