HAL and Saab have finished 1st round talks on Tejas Mark 1A

News reports in India said Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has completed the first round of talks with Swedish firm Saab regarding the Tejas Mark 1A program.

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

The Indian state-owned aerospace and defense company hopes to enlist Saab’s help to produce the Mark 1A which will be equipped with an AESA Radar and an electro-optic Electronic Warfare (EW) sensor suite.

The enhancements have to be done by 2018.