Current plans for the LCA is ten years. Just a hand-ful of trainer aircraft designed and productionised. One more timeframe needs to be noted. Concurrent production will shorten service entry time, but this will not enable the present target to be reached. The LCA remains a high-risk project.
Engine development is the most complex of all activities.
There are sure to be problems during flight development of the Kaveri, GTRE's first engine. In the main, they are devoted and tireless in their efforts to success-fully complete the project. The entire avionics and weapon systems are con-figured around three 1553 B data bus. Considerable engineering effort and expertise is necessary to achieve avionics-weapon integration and to prove the integration by live trials. There will he setbacks in the flight development phase.