Tejas To Be Backbone of IAF Fleet: Rajnath Singh After Largest-Ever ‘Make in India’ Defence Deal

Tejas To Be Backbone of IAF Fleet: Rajnath Singh After Largest-Ever ‘Make in India’ Defence Deal

Rajnath Singh said the Tejas fighter jets will be a 'game-changer' for self-reliance in Indian defence manufacturing Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday predicted that the deal to acquire 83 upgraded versions of the TEJAS fighter jets will be a “game-changer” for self-reliance in Indian defence manufacturing soon after the Cabinet Committee on Security approved the largest-ever indigenous defence procurement deal. Confirming the CCS clearance for the deal, Singh said the homegrown fighter jet, TEJAS, will form the backbone of the IAF fighter fleet in years to come, and said the MK-1A version incorporates a large number of new technologies, many of which were never before attempted in India. The MK-1A version of the jet will have 43 improvements over the initial version, including major improvements to enhance operational capability. These include easier maintenance, active electronically scanned array radar, electronic warfare suite and beyond-visual range missile capabil…