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We will get there slowly, it is going to be painfully slow as it has been in past. But as financial conditions and economy improves it will have compounding effect if institutional memory in DRDO/ADA/industries persist. Other than this, political parties also has to make some money to throw in...

My last on this topic: Most following on development on Tejas/LCA and variants know its shortcomings. F22, F-18, Rafale, Typhoon are all better AC and not in the same category as this single engine fighter. The selection of French AC is total sum of geo-politics, economic and political...

Thanks for correcting typos.. doesn't change a thing, you have been promoting same thing from the day you have joined forum.

He is selling more Rafael's. what do you expect?

Tejas MK1 /MK2 is direct competition for AC like Gripen. Same class, same engine about the same capabilities. The first thing that Saab/Gripen would have done is kill any R&D budget of Tejas. Helping your competition & killing your own prospects is out of question for Saab and for that matter...

Eagerly waiting for Tejas second ballet with some new manoeuvers by our pilots in Lima. I wish we invest to make "Blue angels" or "Sarang" like team for Tejas.

This what IR had said about delinking with FOC; does not mean that it is not needed on LCA(This update was around Aug 17). I think ADA/IAF were in sync regarding gun integration during that time frame. After this there was little discussion on gun testing and validation (or I have missed that...

IR from BRF had long indicated that gun firing has been de-prioritized and delinked from FOC. Now some reports are tagging AESA/EW suite to FOC which is required in MK1A. https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/hal-gets-nod-to-produce-weaponised-version-of-lca-tejas-3354451.html I think lets...

Really...! FOC after all this years of testing and integrating new features (A2A refueling,8.5G) is being reduced to mere political propaganda. To be honest, If it were not for present govt. the LCA program would have certainly got reduced to mere tech demonstrator of 20-40 orders just like...

Posting in MK2 thread because Mk1 is locked: IR update on BR: "Mk1 is now cleared for 100 knots and 8.5Gs" :):):):):):):):)

IR Update: Test pilots are currently pushing the 8G envelop. Have gone over a few times, safely. That limit might be revised upwards. SDR and Guns are not part of Mk1 FoC.If no new requirements arrive, Mk1 should recieve FOC by year end.

You are comparing building construction with AC fighter development and developing aerospace capability:pound:. IAF generals sees themselves as only end user/ customer like yourself that is one huge problem in itself (calling tejas 3 legged cheetah and what not). Personal note: We had specific...

Quote from BR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tejas MK1 in current state without FOC is a capable fighter in my opinion. Whatever TODO's are present in Tejas can be addressed with...

@3The Crossbow , even if IAF realized that it needed twin engine fighter in lets say 2006, it would have been foolish to abandon all the work done on Tejas till that point and start from scratch for 2 engine jet fighter. Another question arises, do IAF really want to replace all MIG's with twin...