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The crash<\/a> of India\u2019s Tejas fighter in front of global arms buyers at the Dubai Airshow is the latest blow to a key national trophy, leaving the jet reliant on Indian military orders to sustain its role as a showcase of home-built defence technology.<\/p>\n

The cause of Friday\u2019s crash was not immediately known but it capped a week of jockeying for influence at the event, attended by India\u2019s arch-rival Pakistan six months after the neighbouring foes faced off<\/a> in the world\u2019s largest air battle in decades.<\/p>\n

Such a public loss will inevitably overshadow India\u2019s efforts to establish the jet abroad after a painstaking development over four decades, experts said, as India paid tribute to Wing Commander Namansh Syal who died in the crash.<\/p>\n

Crash at showcase event in Dubai<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe imagery is brutal,\u201d said Douglas A. Birkey, executive director of the US-based Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, referring to the history of crashes at air shows where nations and industries seek to tout major national achievements.<\/p>\n

\u201cA crash sends quite the opposite signal: a dramatic failure,\u201d he said, adding however that while the Tejas would suffer negative publicity, it would most likely regain momentum.<\/p>\n

Dubai is the world\u2019s third-largest air show after Paris and Britain\u2019s Farnborough, and accidents at such events have become increasingly rare.<\/p>\n

In 1999, a Russian Sukhoi Su-30 crashed after touching the ground during a manoeuvre at the Paris Airshow, and a Soviet MiG-29 crashed at the same event a decade earlier. All crew ejected safely and India went on to place orders for both jets.<\/p>\n

Fighter sales \u201care driven by high order political realities, which supersede a one-off incident\u201d, said Birkey.<\/p>\n

Powered by GE engines<\/h2>\n

The Tejas programme began in the 1980s as India sought to replace vintage Soviet-origin MiG-21s, the last of which retired<\/a> as recently as September after numerous extensions due to slow Tejas deliveries by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).<\/p>\n

The state-owned company has 180 of the advanced Mk-1A variant on order domestically but is yet to begin deliveries due to engine supply chain issues at GE Aerospace.<\/p>\n

A former HAL executive who left the company recently said the crash in Dubai \u201crules out exports for now\u201d.<\/p>\n

Target markets included Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and HAL also opened an office in Malaysia in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe focus for the coming years would be on boosting production of the fighter for domestic use,\u201d the former executive said, requesting anonymity.<\/p>\n

But the Indian Air Force is worried about its shrinking fighter squadrons, which have fallen to 29 from an approved strength of 42, with early variants of the MiG-29, Anglo-French Jaguar and French Mirage 2000 set to retire in coming years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Tejas was supposed to be their replacement,\u201d an IAF officer said. \u201cBut it is facing production issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an alternative, India is considering off-the-shelf purchases to fill immediate gaps, with options including more<\/a> French Rafales, two Indian defence officials said, adding that India still plans to add to about 40 Tejas already in service.<\/p>\n

India is also weighing competing offers from the US and Russia for 5th-generation F-35 and Su-57 fighters \u2014 two advanced models also rarely sharing a stage in Dubai this week.<\/p>\n

\u2018Base\u2019 for future programmes<\/h2>\n

India has for years been among the world\u2019s biggest arms importers, but has increasingly projected the Tejas as an example of self-reliance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking a sortie in the fighter in November 2023.<\/p>\n

Like most fighter programmes, the Tejas has fought for attention at the intersection of technology and diplomacy.<\/p>\n

Development was initially held up partly by sanctions following India\u2019s 1998 nuclear tests as well as problems in developing local engines, said Walter Ladwig, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London.<\/p>\n

But the jet\u2019s long-term significance is \u201clikely to lie less in sales abroad than in the industrial and technological base it creates for India\u2019s future combat-aircraft programmes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Regional rivalry plays out<\/h2>\n

Both India and Pakistan were present in force at the show, where the Tejas performed multiple aerial displays in the presence of the rival Pakistani contingent.<\/p>\n

Pakistan disclosed the signing of a provisional agreement with a \u201cfriendly country\u201d to supply its JF-17 Thunder Block III fighter, co-developed with China.<\/p>\n

On the ramp, a JF-17 was flanked by arms including PL-15E, the export variant of a family of Chinese missiles that US and Indian officials say brought down<\/a> at least one French Rafale used by India during an aerial battle with Pakistan in May.<\/p>\n

At an exhibition stand, manufacturer PAC distributed brochures touting the JF-17, one of two models deployed by Pakistan during the four-day conflict, as \u201cbattle-tested\u201d.<\/p>\n

India is a lot more careful with the Tejas, which was not actively used in the four-day conflict in May, Indian officials have said, without giving any reasons.<\/p>\n

Nor did it participate in the annual January 26 Republic Day aerial display in New Delhi this year due to what officials said were safety reasons associated with single-engine aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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