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At long last.... some serious/specific information regarding engine development. Read more: http://www.defencetalk.com/us-to-help-india-develop-engine-for-gen-5-fighter-carrier-66075/#ixzz3uosy1jIW

Depending on how far along the project is, there may or may not be a point in talking about anything. Given that sufficiently powerful engines are unlikely to be available, HAL would probably be doing themselves a favor if they left super-cruising/TVC to the FGFA and instead focused on range...

EPE isn't even close to being funded, let alone going into production (USN is more interested in EDE upgrade). As for the Eurojet, there is substantial room for growth (even more than F414); but again, no one appears to be seriously interested in funding such a thing. Neither is any more...

Fanboyish, yes. Yet it merits brief consideration regarding risk-reduction. Namely, using a powerplant already being produced in India. Besides, AMCA as currently envisioned doesn't mesh well with reality either as no pair of engines that small (dimensionally) in production (anywhere) will...

It's not a chamber in the case of repairs. Pictures of the equipment used aren't forthcoming, but my understanding is that Repair Verification Radar (RVR) test sets aren't exactly small/portable.

That still depends on the situation. Here's an example from another board by someone else.

^^^completely ignored the criteria of my request^^^

:lol:Tell me more about these three *Indian* programs (must have actual hardware flying to count).

To be honest, I'd hardly noticed before you hijacked the thread. It's only natural that everyone would discuss ways for a new fighter program to avoid past mistakes. Tough beans if you consider that to be "needless dragging." Again, I don't really care one way or another about LCA; it is what...

Nothing more than a paper technology study and some Lockheed concept art... and nothing remotely close to a *next generation* fighter program. As I already told you, F/A-XX or NGAD (or whatever you want to call it) is just a USN program that's generated some pretty pictures of potential...

I do wish everyone would get off the 4G/5G/6G nonsense; fighter development is a bit more nebulous than cell-phones. Besides, there are no actual plans in the US for a direct F-22 replacement in the time-frame you mention. If there were, competing contractors for a fly-off would already be...

I don't care. Basically, you're saying that the entire forum has to be your personal bully-pulpit for defending the LCA (which I don't find that interesting), allowing you to hijack any thread without regard to staying on topic. Not sure why Kunal Biswas actively approves your conduct. BAD...

Why is everyone always talking about the LCA over here? Every time I see this thread getting bumped, I click hoping to see a new development on AMCA, only to get Rickrolled with more Tejas arguments. :angry:

New Design For Indian Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft Did AVweek use the wrong picture, or has it changed again?

Among other things. Guess I'll just have to wait until you see for yourself. Like I said, this program will be fun to watch. :popcorn:

@Twinblade @p2prada MTOW is a fanboy metric (rarely used in real life). Engines run on fuel (lots and lots of it), not good intentions. Internal weapons need bays, which are essentially holes in the airframe; and in the parlance of aircraft engineers "holes are heavy." Any idiot who's ever...

Tell ya what... no math necessary; just watch the program. Remember, 40,000lbs normal-loaded-weight was my monkey's-uncle number; expect closer to 50,000lbs given all the features wanted by the IAF. The real fun will come when HAL goes to pick engines. If they are really planning to do better...

And I will repeat this: That is not physically possible given the requirements listed and the design-demands of internal weapons/fuel. If the payload requirements are kept to an absolute bare minimum (say, limited to a few A2A/light A2G weapons), I could see it MAYBE weighing slightly less than...

In other words, an F-35~+, meaning it will weigh/cost at least as much. This project'll be fun to watch, like a state-school grad student who gets to write his thesis after spending two years of critiquing the works of ivy-league tenured professors.

But I neither said nor asked anything about missiles.:confused: