
Bengaluru: Chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, DK Sunil on Monday said that the flagship jet training aircraft of HAL, which has been renamed 'Yashas' after extensive modifications to HJT-36, is very capable aircraft and will be a good replacement for the Kiran MK II.
"The HJT-36 was started in 2000. It flew, did a lot of certification tests but unfortunately, there was an incident after which we had to rework the design and the fuselage was extended.