'Tejas' will roar in the skies around the world:

America wants to buy India's fighter jet, interest of 6 more countries; Know how dangerous it is?

In the 1965 war, 35 fighter jets of India were destroyed in a sudden attack by the Pakistani Air Force. Not only this, Squadron Leader William Green had landed in Pakistan instead of India due to the lack of GPS, radar in the fighter planes.

This was the time when India was buying fighter jets from other countries. Now is the time when India's indigenous modern fighter jet 'Tejas' wants to buy a powerful country like America.

In such a situation, today in Bhaskar Explainer know how indigenous Tejas is different from other fighter jets? Why are more than half a dozen powerful countries of the world wanting to buy it?

Offer to sell 18 indigenous Tejas to Malaysia
India will now not only buy fighter jets from other countries of the world but will also sell it. This information was given by Ajay Bhatt, Minister of State for Defense in Parliament on Friday, August 5.

Minister of State for Defense Bhatt said in his statement that Hindustan Aeronautics Limited ie HAL manufactures this fighter jet with one engine. To this end, in October last year, the Royal Malaysian Air Force had responded to a request for proposal for 18 jets, offering to sell a 2-seater version of the Tejas.

Along with this, he has also said that 6 other countries like America, Argentina, Australia, Egypt, Indonesia and Philippines have also shown interest in buying this aircraft.

Now what is the specialty of Tejas and why are countries around the world wanting to buy it. This will also tell, but first read how Tejas's journey started...

The effort started in 1983 was successful after 18 years
, preparations for the induction of Light Fighter Aircraft (LCA) in the Indian Air Force fleet had started in 1983 itself. As soon as the government's green signal was received, Indian scientists were engaged day and night to carry out their mission. Its time LCA had only two purposes-

First : To create a new fighter jet to replace the Russian fighter MiG-21.

Second : To make indigenous and light fighter jets.

After nearly 18 years of hard work, finally on January 2001, this indigenous fighter jet flew in the skies of India for the first time. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister of the country when all this was happening. It was Vajpayee who gave it 'Tejas' in 2003. While naming Tejas, Prime Minister Vajpayee had said that it is a Sanskrit word, which means 'shine'.

Tejas is different from the rest of the fighter jets because of its 4 features. The
top fighter jets in the Indian Air Force fleet at present include the names of Sukhoi Su-30MKI, Rafale, Mirage, MiG-29 and Tejas. Tejas is different and special from the rest of the four fighter jets because of these features.

First : 50% of the parts of this aircraft i.e. machinery have been made in India itself.

Second : Israel's EL / M-2052 radar has been installed under modern technology in this aircraft. Because of this, Tejas is able to track and hit 10 targets simultaneously.

Third : Ability to takeoff on very short runway i.e. 460 meter runway.

Fourth : This fighter jet is the lightest of these four i.e. only 6500 kg.

Why did the Air Force need Tejas?
The Indian government was looking to replace it due to the crash of more than 400 MiG-21 aircraft in the last five decades. Tejas succeeded in replacing this MiG-21. Due to the low weight of this aircraft, it can easily land and take off even on sea vessels. Not only this, its weapon carrying capacity is twice that of MiG-21. Talking about the speed, Tejas has a speed of 300 km per hour more than Rafale.

Now talking about the top fighter jets of the country, then see Tejas in a graphics and some features of all these fighter planes...

Tejas overtakes fighter jets from China, Russia and South Korea
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Chairman and Managing Director R Madhavan said that Malaysia had many more options in place of Tejas fighter jets. These included China's JF-17 jets, South Korea's FA-50 and Russia's MiG-35 as well as the Yak-130. Despite this, Malaysia has shown interest in buying it.

He said that due to the low price of JF-17, Malaysia's attention got towards it, but due to the advanced technology in Tejas, it is thinking of buying it. Due to Malaysia's need, it is looking to buy this low-weight aircraft. He said that in terms of maintenance and repair, weight, cost and firepower, Tejas has left behind 4 most powerful aircraft in the world.