HAL Tejas Mk2

If it works, great, we'll buy more.

As it is, they're buying Tejas Mark II.

You have committed to 120 Tejas Mark II, 180 or Tejas Mark IAs.

You are going to be producing these into the, God knows, up to 2040 easy across Tejas Mark II.

At what stage, if any, does the Air Force have the right to say that, hello, it's not needed anymore or it doesn't work for us? Or we just continue pushing this at a time when we know that the technology has changed before the first prototype of the Tejas Mark II has flown?

So there's two sides to it.

Obviously, there's the politics and the optics around bailing out on Tejas.

capabilities.

what else would it require for them to speed up their act?

So I'm just trying to understand the specs of the Tejas Mark II for a fourth generation aircraft are fairly impressive.

The word is specs.

They've not even rolled out the first prototype.

By the time the Tejas Mark II comes online after tests for years...

Because everything has to be validated.

We're easily looking at 2035, which is the best case scenario in my book.

The last part of your statement, yes.