The Light Combat Aircraft #LCA #Tejas takes first flight after being inducted into IAF 

#Bengaluru : The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday raised the first squadron of home-grown Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas with the induction of two aircraft into the force.

Defence Minister of India Manohar Parrikar, while heralding the arrival of indigenously built defence aircrafts, said that the Tejas aircraft was ‘quite potent’ and ‘easy to handle’. The Minister said that the Indian Air Force had more than 55% indigenous contents in most of the aircrafts.
Asked about whether Friday’s induction presented itself as a milestone for self-reliance and Make in India initiative launched by the NDA government, Parrikar said that the Tejas aircraft was a 33-year-old programme which hadn’t been crystallise for induction into the IAF.
“This is a 33-year-old programme and it was not getting crystallised for actual induction. This is a indigenous-developed, and even now, inspite of beginning, we have more than 55% indigenous content. And we are very happy that even the trials of other requirements for future supplies have been successfully conducted,” Manohar  Parrikar said.