NEW DELHI: The naval variant of the homemade Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas became the first aircraft in India to successfully perform an “arrested landing”, in what is being billed as a major step in the programme to make the jet ready for service with the Navy.
The nimble multirole fighter jet used a hook mounted on its fuselage to snare a wire to rapidly come to a halt after landing at a test facility.

The ability to come to a halt in a very short distance is a key feature needed for operations on board an aircraft carrier where the real estate needed to land is limited.

Today’s test at Goa’s Shore-Based Test Facility replicates the conditions on an aircraft carrier where fighter jets have to snag a wire on the deck of the ship in order to abruptly stop within the length of the narrow deck.

Naval Tejas Clears Critical Test Before Landing On Aircraft Carrier
The naval version of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas used a hook mounted on its fuselage to snare a wire to rapidly come to a halt after landing at the Goa-based Shore Bases Test Facility
All India | Reported by Vishnu Som, Edited by Debanish Achom | Updated: September 13, 2019 14:38 IST
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Naval Tejas Clears Critical Test Before Landing On Aircraft Carrier
The naval version of LCA Tejas makes an “arrested landing” at Goa’s Shore-Based Test Facility

NEW DELHI: The naval variant of the homemade Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas became the first aircraft in India to successfully perform an “arrested landing”, in what is being billed as a major step in the programme to make the jet ready for service with the Navy.
The nimble multirole fighter jet used a hook mounted on its fuselage to snare a wire to rapidly come to a halt after landing at a test facility.

The ability to come to a halt in a very short distance is a key feature needed for operations on board an aircraft carrier where the real estate needed to land is limited.

Today’s test at Goa’s Shore-Based Test Facility replicates the conditions on an aircraft carrier where fighter jets have to snag a wire on the deck of the ship in order to abruptly stop within the length of the narrow deck.

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Two Light Combat Aircraft-Navy (LCA-N) prototypes are being tested; the single-seat variant is shown above

An “arrested landing” on the deck of an aircraft carrier is a feat achieved by only a handful of fighter jets developed in the US, Russia, the UK, France and, more recently, China.

Achieving this successfully, over and over again at the test facility in Goa, will validate one of the most important design features on the LCA-N – its ability to handle the incredible stresses of making an “arrested landing” on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

It is only once the shore tests are successful that naval test pilots leading the development effort on the LCA-N prototypes can graduate to the next step – making an actual landing on India’s only operational aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya.

Key members of the LCA-N development team whom NDTV has spoken to say they have flown 60 sorties in May-June at the Goa test facility.

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