10-05-2025
Nashik unit of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd to roll out its first Tejas MK1A jet in June
: The first Tejas
from the Nashik production line ofwill roll out this June, sources have defence PSU had first planned to unveil the jet in May, but the sources said that deadline was postponed due to certain technical HAL hub is in Ozar and is the company's third production line for the
, after the two in Bengaluru.
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The Ozar facility, inaugurated on April 7, 2023, cost HAL Rs 150 crore to set up and is expected to make eight LCAs every year, boosting the jet's overall annual production from the current 16 to MK1A variant of the LCA includes improvements in combat avionics and air-to-air refueling capabilities, officials Feb, TOI had reported that the Indian govt plans to crank up the production of Tejas jets.
IAF has received 38 of the 40 Mark 1 variants of the fighters it had ordered as part of two contracts in 2006 and 2010. As for the MK1A variant, HAL is expected to deliver 83 of them, under the Rs 46,898 crore deal it signed in Feb 2021. The Nashik division of HAL has a total of 2,207 employees, including 1,188 technical experts, 624 experts for technical support and 395 engineers. It also makes and overhauls Su-30s and Mig-21s. In fact, its Su-30 MKI Repair and Overhaul (ROH) facility at the Nashik hub was set up in 2014, the first of its kind anywhere in the world, to meet the operational requirements of the 2000, HAL Nashik received orders from govt to manufacture 232 Su-30 MKI aircraft for the IAF. HAL Nashik delivered the first Su-30 MKI aircraft to the IAF in 2004. The last lot of 12 fighter aircraft was completed in 2019-20. After that, HAL Nashik has had no new orders for the jet from IAF.
