LCA Tejas received the final operational clearance for induction into the air force as a fully-weaponised fighter jet. And India's first self-made fighter jet Light Combat Aircraft Tejas or LCA Tejas is finally ready to be used in operations by the Indian Air Force or IAF. In what was termed as a "landmark day" in India's defence capability.

At a special ceremony at the Aero India 2019 - India's biennial air show in Bengaluru - the country's military aviation regulator CEMILAC handed over the final operational clearance certificate and other release-to-service documents to Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa. Air Marshal Dhanoa told the press in the presence of Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar "It is a major milestone for the LCA (Tejas) to get the final operational clearance. The aircraft could fly in many sorties and has demonstrated the precision with which it can deliver weapons,".

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The air chief went on to say that "LCA Tejas performed air-to-ground attacks and air-to-air refuelling at IAF's Vayu Shakti air display at Pokhran in Rajasthan on February 16." Speaking at the function, DRDO Chairman and Defence R&D Secretary G. Satheesh Reddy said: "The grant of final operational clearance to LCA Tejas is a landmark day for India's aeronautical engineers, scientists, the Indian Air Force, the defence industry and allied businesses."

State-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd chairman and managing director R Madhavan said "HAL had already responded to the request for proposal (RFP) floated by the Indian Air Force for procuring 83 LCA Tejas Mk-1."

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