Context:

• Tejas has successfully fired an air-to-air beyond visual (BVR) range missile, demonstrating its overall capability as an effective combat jet

Facts:

• It is indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)
• The aircraft is developed by state-run aerospace behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
• It is single-seat, single-jet engine, multirole light fighter
• LCA was officially named “Tejas” in 2003, meaning “Radiant” in Sanskrit by the then Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

• It reacts very smoothly, fly-by-wire, its turn radius is very good, maneuverability is very good
• The aircraft is equipped to handle air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles, anti-ship missiles, bombs and rockets. It is considered to be the lightest multi-role supersonic aircraft of its class.
• It is meant to facilitate all weather use
• it is a light combatant
• It cannot go into deep penetration
• It is mostly good for dogfights in our own sky or to degrade the opponent Army’s command posts.