NEW DELHI: India has offered to sell 18 indigenously-developed light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas to Malaysia. Quoting defence ministry sources a news agency reported that six countries of Argentina, Australia, Egypt, the United States, Indonesia and the Philippines have also shown interest in the single-engine fighter jet.
Last year, the Government had approved the purchase of 73 LCA Tejas Mk-1A fighter aircraft and 10 LCA Tejas Mk-1 trainer aircraft at a cost of over 6 billion US dollars from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a defense public sector undertaking (PSU).
