Indigenous Fighter and Helicopter to Fly at Bahrain Air Show

India’s own fighter aircraft LighCombat Aircraftt  – Tejas (LCA) – will participate in the three-day Bahrain International Airshow starting tomorrow (January 21 to 23, 2016).  “Two Limited Series Production (LSP) aircraft will take part in the Bahrain International Air Show to enthrall the visitors from various countries during the flying display through a series of aerobatic maneuvers such as 8-g pull, vertical loop, slow fly past, barrel roll etc.”, says Mr. T. Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL.

“It is important that indigenous aircraft fly outside India in international air-shows. HAL is proud to be associated with design, development and production of Tejas.  We have set-up state of the art, environmentally controlled dedicated Division at Bengaluru for production of LCAs”, adds Mr. Raju.

Tejas is a single engined, light weight, highly agile, multi-role supersonic fighter. The Tejas light combat aircraft is a 4.5 generation aircraft with supersonic capability at all altitudes. It has the fly by wire, state of the art open architecture computer for avionics and better weapon and combat capability. With the advanced avionics, the pilot load is also reduced.Also, the Sarang (Peacock in Sanskrit) helicopter display team of the Indian Air Force that flies four HAL produced Dhruv helicopters is all set to enthrall visitors at Bahrain.  HAL Dhruv is suitable for increased payload at higher altitudes and has been developed for the Indian Defence Forces. More than 200 helicopters have been produced so far cumulatively clocking around 1,42,000 hours of flying.

Apart from this, HAL will be setting up a stall at the Show to explain visitors various activities of the Company with a focus on ALH WSI (Rudra) and Light Combat Helicopter (LCH).  The LCH which completed performance trials recently is only attack helicopter which can operate above 10000 – 12000 feet altitude with considerable load of armament. The armed version of the ALH-Rudra is equipped with turreted gun, rockets, air-to-air missiles, EO POD, Helmet pointing system and Radar/Laser/Missile Warning Systems.