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The 1st flight to production ready aircraft will take at least a decade. Enough time to develop and integrate EOTS. Let the 1st prototype fly

Our services HQs prefer 16 Apaches for 2 billion USD rather than AMCA

Hahaha last week uncle sams air force secretary said he was threatened by Atmanirbhar Bharat. They shafted their buddies in east atlantic and kangaroos down under with an Ookus with a deal for dolphins that will cost the kangaroos 300 billion USD lifetime cost for 20 years opertion of what will...

CCS can only happen once the entire design process is completed, accepted by user, the cost is derived for each sub-system and finally total cost for fabrication, flight tests etc are put in paper. And then this has to go to MoD, then MoFinance then finally PMO. CCS clearance comes after all...

Turkish Aerospace experts builds 5th gen fighters straight out of thin air without ever building a 4th of 4.5 Gen before. Even South Koreans started with a 4.5 Gen variant of kfx that too with significant hand holding from LM, Saab, Northrop Grumman and a dozen other established companies. All...

Even the 75 KN dry thrust engine that is still on paper will not be sufficient for a naval AMCA with the additional structural weight. Goodluck converting it to AF version after that. That way IAF won't have a 5th gen jet even by 2040. Even the AF version with 75KN engine has been moved to Mark...

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No body will give cabinet approval without completing cdr.

More KN doesn't mean more electric power. KN is for thrust.(Mechanical force). Electrical power depends on the generator and the level of technological maturity in that field. So 125KN can have same electrical power as of 110KN engine if the compact generator installed is not advanced enough...

Private parties have deep pockets and so far they have went abroad, took some developed products and assembled them here in India, repainted it and wrote 'Made in India'. A 5th Gen Fighter production is an all together new mega challenge. They would have to master it like how HAL mastered...

"However, even twin F-414 engines are not enough to make the AMCA super-cruise in all configurations. According to the ADA chief: “Each F-414 engine generates a maximum thrust of 98 KiloNewtons (KN), and in Indian climatic conditions that effectively degrades to 90 KN. We have calculated that an...

Unrelated-Just visited shookla ji's webpage. Only the F-18 for the IN and Gripen NG ad is there. Actual news is somewhere in the bottom left corner:troll:

Oops. Sorry. I got confused

DRDO EOTS. Long range IRST is not mentioned here(maybe deliberate)

5th gen Sensor suit similar to amca, sensor fusion, 360 ir maws, net centric warfare, AESA, RWR, ISPJ. All on a Tejas MK2. Nice. Now please tell me how to get electricity for all these? From one GE F414? Even 2 GE F414 is insufficient of AMCA. So ADA is now scratching it's head over a 75KN...

Good decision on Indo french engine JV and let it become fruitful. RR is a pioneer no doubt. But UK(USA) is too risky. Also don't expect any reasonable IP or ToT from UK/US. 6 squadrons of Tejas MK1, around 7 squadrons of Tejas MK2, 2 squadrons of AMCA mk1 all have US engines. That's nearly 275...

Dry thrust is important. A 20% increase from 75 KN gives 90 KN of dry thrust. All this thrust from a GEF414 sized engine. It's too steep a task. Pratt and Whitney stuff. Even if RR manages to develop this tech, neither they will transfer the technology nor the IP. Period. Infact that decision is...