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What is the name of the Light Combat Aircraft developed by India indigenously?
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- BrahMos
- Chetak
- Astra
- Tejas
Correct Option: D
The HAL Tejas is a lightweight multirole fighter developed by India. It is a tailless, compound deltawing design powered by a single engine. It came from the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, which began in the 1980s to replace India’s aging MiG-21 fighters. Later, the LCA was officially named “Tejas”, meaning “Radiance” by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Tejas has a pure delta wing configuration, with no tailplanes or foreplanes, and a single dorsal fin. It integrates technologies such as relaxed static stability, fly-by-wire flight control system, advanced digital cockpit, multi-mode radar, integrated digital avionics system, advanced composite material structures and a flat rated engine.