(Image tweeted by @Ng_Eng_Hen)
Kolkata: Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen on Tuesday flew in India's indigenous fighter aircraft Tejas, and called it a "very good plane".
"Privileged to be flown on the Tejas, India's own designed and manufactured fighter aircraft. A very good plane," the Singapore minister said in a tweet.
He was flown in the plane at the Indian Air Force Station in Kalaikunda (West Bengal), the Defence Ministry said.
According to aNI report, the HAL Tejas is an Indian single-seat, single-jet engine, multirole light fighter designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force and Navy.
The aircraft has a tail-less compound delta-wing configuration, which provides for high maneuverability. It came from the (LCA) programme, which began in the 1980s to replace India's ageing MiG-21 fighters. LCA was officially named 'Tejas' in 2003, meaning 'Radiant' in Sanskrit by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
With the successful test-firing of a modified Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) BrahMos from multi-role air superiority fighter Sukhoi SU-30 MKI, Indian Air Force (IAF) is confident of getting the missile configured on Tejas.
Hen, who is on a tour to India, will arrive in New Delhi on Wednesday to hold second Singapore-India Defence Ministers' Dialogue with his Indian counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman.
