<p>The naval version of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mark I executed its first successful arrested-hook landing onboard the aircraft carrier—INS Vikramaditya off the coast of Karwar on Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Commodore Jaideep Maolankar, a Chief Test Pilot serving with the National Flight Test Centre of the Tejas Programme made the successful landing at 10.02 am. The Indian Navy, which announced the successful landing in a tweet shortly after the test, added that the feat proved the indigenously developed niche technologies specific to deck-based fighter operations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“This will now pave the way to develop and manufacture the twin-engine deck-based fighters for the Indian Navy,” India Navy spokesperson Vivek Madhwal said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">R Madhavan, the Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) pointed out that HAL’s contributions to the naval fighter included the landing gear, arrestor hook and support staff at SBTF. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Although the Navy did not comment on the specifics of the test landing, the arrestor-hook test landing at SBTF in September 2019 had shown the Tejas naval prototype decelerating from 131.7 knots to zero within a span of two seconds. The aircraft came to a full stop within a distance of 87 metres.</p>
<p>The naval version of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mark I executed its first successful arrested-hook landing onboard the aircraft carrier—INS Vikramaditya off the coast of Karwar on Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Commodore Jaideep Maolankar, a Chief Test Pilot serving with the National Flight Test Centre of the Tejas Programme made the successful landing at 10.02 am. The Indian Navy, which announced the successful landing in a tweet shortly after the test, added that the feat proved the indigenously developed niche technologies specific to deck-based fighter operations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“This will now pave the way to develop and manufacture the twin-engine deck-based fighters for the Indian Navy,” India Navy spokesperson Vivek Madhwal said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">R Madhavan, the Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) pointed out that HAL’s contributions to the naval fighter included the landing gear, arrestor hook and support staff at SBTF. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Although the Navy did not comment on the specifics of the test landing, the arrestor-hook test landing at SBTF in September 2019 had shown the Tejas naval prototype decelerating from 131.7 knots to zero within a span of two seconds. The aircraft came to a full stop within a distance of 87 metres.</p>