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Some people can never change,
First they kept repeatedly quoting the 8 per annum production figure as set in stone kind of gospel and kept on arguing that tejas is at most a tech demo production only,
then when HAL has said that it can produce close to twenty once FOC is achieved and need for higher production arises , they kept silent for a while,
Silence is golden when it comes to tejas,
,many people who kept on claiming that tejas has drag issue which makes it unable to cross sound barrier in sea level without the nose cone extension suggested by CEMILAC are quite after reading the super sonic at all altitude statement on release to service IOC-2 document,
People claimed that it's air inlet starves the engine and that is the reason it is stuck at 20 deg AOA for eons are now silent after reading the document which states AOA achieved 24 deg,
And even the altitude (50000 ft )and top speed (mach 1.6)figures are not final.
In the tarmak 007 live chat Suneet krishna clearly said ,"we have achieved mach 1.6 at 50000 ft altitude for IOC-2 ".people who claimed it can't go beyond mach 1.4 are silent now,
What ever production time table drawn by HAL is tailored to the IAf's 40 mk-1 and 80 odd mk-2 order,
now MOD is setting the ball rolling by announcing repeatedly there will be more than 200 plus tejas in IAF alone.
And reworking production targets is not a herculean task once the intent is made concrete. FOC will be the date to wach out for firm numbers,
because after that no one in IAf can say no to MOD'd request to change all old Migs with tejas mk-2 and mk-1.
Only statements that are true about tejas till now are from test pilots, all other so called pundit predictions have turned out to be false.
It was the naval test pilot Mao who explicitly told karthik the Br poster in aeroindia 2013 that mk-1 itself can meet all IAF requirement and mk-2 is for navy.
today it has become true. Tejas may go to 28 deg AOA in mk-1 FOC itself as per suneet krishna's statement.
So we will have to wait and till FOC to see most other so called pundit bogus predictions blown to dust as afar as tejas numbers are concerned.
With billion dollar indian private firms ready to join the tejas race at short notice, ramping up production depends upon the expression of intent from IAF.
ofcourse IAF will take all the sweet time. like they did in revising the AMCA specs three times wasting a decade in the process and pushing india down a decade behind the chinese in stealth race,(now they are crying hoarse that FGFA ia s dud as well, then how is the russian airforce inducting an even more of a dud called PAKFA?)
USAF has inducted more than 100 f-35s which are even less sure of the ASR performance than the tejas, But IAF is setting too much store in RAFALE deal , and will end up regretting it later.
Only a new non UPA govt can make IAf see the light of the day.
First they kept repeatedly quoting the 8 per annum production figure as set in stone kind of gospel and kept on arguing that tejas is at most a tech demo production only,
then when HAL has said that it can produce close to twenty once FOC is achieved and need for higher production arises , they kept silent for a while,
Silence is golden when it comes to tejas,
,many people who kept on claiming that tejas has drag issue which makes it unable to cross sound barrier in sea level without the nose cone extension suggested by CEMILAC are quite after reading the super sonic at all altitude statement on release to service IOC-2 document,
People claimed that it's air inlet starves the engine and that is the reason it is stuck at 20 deg AOA for eons are now silent after reading the document which states AOA achieved 24 deg,
And even the altitude (50000 ft )and top speed (mach 1.6)figures are not final.
In the tarmak 007 live chat Suneet krishna clearly said ,"we have achieved mach 1.6 at 50000 ft altitude for IOC-2 ".people who claimed it can't go beyond mach 1.4 are silent now,
What ever production time table drawn by HAL is tailored to the IAf's 40 mk-1 and 80 odd mk-2 order,
now MOD is setting the ball rolling by announcing repeatedly there will be more than 200 plus tejas in IAF alone.
And reworking production targets is not a herculean task once the intent is made concrete. FOC will be the date to wach out for firm numbers,
because after that no one in IAf can say no to MOD'd request to change all old Migs with tejas mk-2 and mk-1.
Only statements that are true about tejas till now are from test pilots, all other so called pundit predictions have turned out to be false.
It was the naval test pilot Mao who explicitly told karthik the Br poster in aeroindia 2013 that mk-1 itself can meet all IAF requirement and mk-2 is for navy.
today it has become true. Tejas may go to 28 deg AOA in mk-1 FOC itself as per suneet krishna's statement.
So we will have to wait and till FOC to see most other so called pundit bogus predictions blown to dust as afar as tejas numbers are concerned.
With billion dollar indian private firms ready to join the tejas race at short notice, ramping up production depends upon the expression of intent from IAF.
ofcourse IAF will take all the sweet time. like they did in revising the AMCA specs three times wasting a decade in the process and pushing india down a decade behind the chinese in stealth race,(now they are crying hoarse that FGFA ia s dud as well, then how is the russian airforce inducting an even more of a dud called PAKFA?)
USAF has inducted more than 100 f-35s which are even less sure of the ASR performance than the tejas, But IAF is setting too much store in RAFALE deal , and will end up regretting it later.
Only a new non UPA govt can make IAf see the light of the day.
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. They could have gone with ADA-HAL upgrade on Mirage-2000 similar to Jaguar & later replaced the Aircraft with Tejas-Mk2 or FGFA
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