LCA:

Bharat Karnad With the British firm, Cobham, moreover, finally delivering on a few
of the 200 or so units of the radome ordered which delivery delay has unduly
stretched out the aircrafts certification process, the LCA is ready for operational
service.
You may as well add as relevant that Cobham is a BAe subsidiary and the IFR and
Radome were delivered only after the IAF people made mutiple visits to Britain and only
after the the GoI was forced to approve the so called upgradation of the Hawk-132 for
Ground Attack Roles. This one bit of information puts things in perspective about the
various people involved. More pertinent is if this is not a case of Undeclared Underhand
Sanctions.
Surprisingly even after the exhorbitant/extortionist contract for the upgrade of Mirage
2000 has been given to the French, still the IAF was not taking the LCA till recently and
relented only when PM Modi had to announce that GoI would be buying 36 Rafales.
Coincidently LCA Tejas has quite a few bits and pieces sourced from France. Hope this
explains why more serious countries like China are going completely indigenous, while
IAF bosses hanker for imports.