The Argentine Air Force may have received a formal invitation for a technical commission to evaluate in situ the capabilities of the Tejas, the Indian-made light fighter.
After the Foreign Ministries of Argentina and India published a joint statement officially stating the interest in the Tejas to equip the Argentine Air Force (FAA), the website Indian Defence Research Wing (IDRW), consulting its own sources, assures that an invitation has already been extended for FAA personnel to visit the country.
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According to the information obtained, a delegation, composed of FAA pilots and technical personnel, was invited to carry out a complete technical evaluation of the LCA-Tejas, including time in the simulator and actual flights.
As Argentina seeks to assemble the aircraft locally from kits, the facilities of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the manufacturer of the model, will probably also be visited to evaluate the possibilities of an eventual technology transfer.
Among the offers received, it is essential for the Argentine Air Force to select a model that meets the technology transfer requirements for local assembly and the manufacture of certain spare parts.
It is also important that the fighter aircraft have open source code systems, for the eventual integration of equipment and armament of different origin, both foreign and national.
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Finally, India assures that they can sell the HAL Tejas to Argentina without components of British origin, such as the radar cone, the in-flight refueling probe or the Martin-Baker ejection seat, in order to avoid an eventual embargo, as happened when the FAA selected the KAI FA-50 from South Korea.
