1995年11月12日印度航空发展局在印度班加罗尔市首次展示了自行研制的LCA轻型战斗机。该机是一种单座式轰炸歼击两用机,于1983年开始研制,以替换逐渐老化的米格-21和F-5战斗机,原定在6年内结束设计工作,但由于资金不足、技术匮乏等一系列原因,于1992年才开始集中研制,原计划 On November 12, 1995, the Indian Aviation Development Agency demonstrated for the first time in its Bangalore city of India a self-developed LCA light combat aircraft. The aircraft is a single-seat bombing fighter aircraft, developed in 1983 to replace the aging MiG -21 and F-5 fighters, originally scheduled to end the design work within six years, but due to lack of funds, technology Lack of a series of reasons, in 1992 began to focus on the development of the original plan