India to set up second Tejas production line

India’s Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar disclosed that work to setup a second production line for the HAL Tejas fighter will start in three-months.

Tejas Aero India-2013
By Ashwin Kumar [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

The line is expected to cost $203.47 million and together HAL will be able to produce 16 Tejas aircraft.