Tell me guys 1 thing, what will IAF do if 36 Rafales become obsolete? They will be in the next decade!
They will ask for another 10 billion dollar, as it is just, 10 only 10 or 20 billions of tax payers.
Rafale is already become an obsolete plane with what they have contended for MRCA. God help our MOD and acquisition and testing team for taking such a huge time to buy. In 2001 its brand new plane, but now its decade a half old. I think PAK FA project started after we floated MRCA and they are having a production plane now, and we are taking longer time just to buy the plane compared to othes who developed the advanced plane, with this we can justify such a long for development of LCA,,,,
At least now we must think futuristic. Rather developing LCA MK2 take Make in India Gripen and just stop su 30mki production and start FGFA production as we already have offer for full TOT from Russia, and have full R&D team working on AMCA and get series production by 2020 or 22 MAX and it will reduce alot of cost on R&D because we can simply use the tech we bough in AMCA. Cause we already have enough of Su 30 or we can have super Sukhois later to enhance mki capability we can spend more money on buying 5 gen AMCA rather buying 4+ gen Sukhoi more over its made in in India. And I dont understand why IAF needs dual seat, while almost whole world is able to manage with single seat. If needed on special missions have a couple or few of them for those special purposes. The US who goes to the war every now and then, has single seat version, why cant we? If needed we need to teach such skills in our pilots
who ever the culprit is we must just kick him out of Govt organisations who causes such huge delays.