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HAL Tejas (Wallpaper 1). HAL Tejas fighter photo wallpaper gallery 1. HAL Tejas fighter pictures and images collection 1. The HAL Tejas is a lightweight multirole jet fighter developed by India. It is a tailless, compound delta wing design powered by a single engine. It came from the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, which was begun in the 1980s to replace India's aging MiG-21 fighters. Later the LCA was officially named "Tejas" by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Tejas has the delta wing configuration, with no tailplanes or foreplanes, features a single vertical 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. The Tejas single-seat, single-engine, lightweight, high-agility supersonic fighter aircraft has been undergoing flight trials in preparation for operational clearance, and by mid 2005 had flown over 400 flights up to speeds of Mach 1.4. HAL Tejas (Wallpaper 1). HAL Tejas fighter photo wallpaper gallery 1. HAL Tejas fighter pictures and images collection 1. The Tejas light combat aircraft design and development programme is being led by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) of the Indian Department of Defence with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) as the prime industrial contractor. The first LCA Demonstrator I aircraft made a maiden flight in January 2001. The LCA Demonstrator II first flew in June 2002. The second prototype vehicle (PV-II) made a maiden flight in December 2005 and the third in December 2006. The Indian government approved limited series production of 20 Tejas for the Air Force in April 2006. First flight of the production aircraft was in April 2007. Tejas achieved initial operating clearance (IOC) in January 2011 and will enter service in March 2011. The trainer variant has completed its first flight in November 2009. HAL delivered the first Tejas fighter to Indian Air Force in January 2011. Tejas, the smallest lightweight, multirole, single-engined tactical fighter aircraft in the world, is being developed as a single seat fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force and also as a two-seat training aircraft. In November 2008, the Indian Air Force confirmed a requirement for 140 Tejas aircraft to equip seven squadrons. HAL Tejas (Wallpaper 1). HAL Tejas fighter photo wallpaper gallery 1. HAL Tejas fighter pictures and images collection 1.