IAF’s Tejas becomes World’s first Light Combat Aircraft to successfully test-fire Israeli Python-5 Air-to-Air Missile
Enhancing its combat prowess, India's indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has successfully added 5th generation Israeli-origin Python-5 Air-to-Air Missile (AAM) under its air-to-air weapons capability.
Python-5 can be launched from very short to beyond visual ranges with precise attack probability, excellent resistance to countermeasures, irrespective of evasive target maneuvers or deployment of countermeasures. The Air-to-Air missile comes with a fifth-generation imaging seeker, which enables it with ‘full sphere launch capability’ with lock-on-after-launch and excellent acquisition and targeting capabilities.
Similar trials were also conducted on validating the enhanced capability of the already inducted Derby Beyond Visual Range (BVR) AAM on the light com...