Bengaluru, Feb. 10 -- 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.

Sunil told ANI that improvements in HJT-36 include improved radar and spin characteristic.

"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. The radar was improved and the spin characteristic, which was a problem, has been fixed and we have also improved the cockpit," he said.

"We have made it a full glass cockpit, it i...