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An Israeli radar has arrived in India, which when planted on the homegrown Light Combat Aircraft(LCA) will initiate the LCA project in full throttle weaponisation stage. Unspecified numbers of the Multimode Radar(MMR), made by Elta have arrived in Bangalore for integration with the LCA.
The MMR will finally be developed in joint collaboration with India entities and Elta of Israel.
The delay in the joint development of a homegrown MMR has delayed the LCA by as much as three years. It was only decided in May last year that the Elta MMR radar be brought to India to be incorporated on the LCA as the homegrown effort to develop the MMR by ADA caused delay. The homemade MMR was being developed by HAL and Electronics and Radar Development Laboratory (Bangalore) along with coordination from the Centre for Airborne Studies(CABS).
In fact, the delay in MMR led to the testing of a weapon last year without the MMR using only a targeting pod. However, the weaponisation of LCA will commence once the Elta MMR is mounted on the LCA.
A prototype of the LCA last year fired a fire and forget R73 missile after reaching a height of 6.5 kilometers. LCA will test critical weapons said a senior scientist of ADA. Along with the weaponisation stage the LCA also enters the Flight Certification Stage. Foreign help is also being sought for the Flight Testing Stage.
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