 "Creating enough production capacity to satisfy IAF’s demand for aircraft is a key challenge identified by HAL")
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), the lead integrator of the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA), is grappling with an unusual predicament: a problem of plenty.
Plenty of orders, that is.
After taking more than two decades to build and induct the first 40 Tejas Mark 1 fighters, HAL must now produce and induct the next 180 Tejas Mark 1As — the new, more capable variant of the Tejas Mark 1 — in less than a decade.
This will require HAL to accelerate its current production rates, dramatically scaling up the rate at which it will churn out the new Tejas Mark
