Giving a boost to the IAF fighter aircraft fleet, 24 indigenously designed and manufactured Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) have been inducted into the service. The total cost of these jets is more than Rs 6,000 crore and the IAF plans to have a total of 123 Tejas in the coming years, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.
In one of biggest deals to procure indigenously manufactured weapons, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January this year, cleared the contract worth over Rs 47,000 crore for 83 Tejas jets. They will be manufactured by the public sector aerospace conglomerate Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
