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AMCA is a public private partnership program, it's yet to find a private partner that can step up to the challenge LoL

4.5 gen aircraft will continue to thrive till 2070 if not more

Fast forward to 2023, the supposedly sub-par and sub-optimal DR-118 RWR receives a 129 unit order worth Rs.3700 crore for fitment onto Su30 MKI. https://pib.gov.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1910065

Do you even read what you write? There is a sea of difference between Roll-out and first flight. Typically, any new aircraft has its first flight 6-12 months after its prototype has been rolled out. It won't take to the air immediately after roll-out, that's not how it works. Work on Tejas Mk2...

HAL was contracted to license produce RD-33 Series 3 engines for the Mig-29 UPG of the IAF, RD-33MK is a different engine and is used in the Mig-29K which were imported off the shelf from Russia. Also, given that the upgrade was carried out for only 60 odd Mig 29S to UPG standards, I doubt that...

Manohar Parikkar worked with both HAL and IAF to address the shortcomings with the original Mk1 FOC version and to have a Tejas Mk1A version as a bridge between the Mk1 and Mk2. It's not only HAL's creation, IAF was as much committed to it as HAL.

License producing Rafael possible, F-21, NO Thank You!!

The one that was cleared in September 2022, these news portals barely do any research and just mix and mash half-researched information from here and there and throw it into an article and call it a day.

The same clowns were reporting that deal for 5 QRSAM systems were signed, they are even more unreliable than IDRW. Unless there are plans to use the 8 GE F-414 engines as Air Conditioners for the MoD, they will be used for Tejas MK2 prototype development.

8 GE F414 engines are already in India LoL,more than enough for prototype development

It's already been released, 8 GE F414 engines made it to India's shores back in 2013-14, more than enough for the 4 prototypes to be made for Tejas MK2.

People of this forum really need to calm their nerves down and think with an open mind rather than getting swayed away with someone else's opinions written in article. First of all, Janes is the same news portal that made tall claims like Indian Army purchasing 5 regiments of QRSAM and Indian...

Seems fake, funds were cleared for prototype construction back in September 2022 itself. Also, the GE F414 engines were selected for Tejas Mk2 in 2010 itself, and deliveries of the initial lot began in September 2015...

Any engine change at this stage of the project is unlikely, you build the aircraft around the engine and not the engine around the aircraft. The CDR of the Tejas Mk2 has been completed and approved by the IAF, changing the engine right now means Tejas Mk2 will have to go back to the drawing...

Sounds BS to me again. GE F414 engines were selected for Tejas Mk2 almost a decade back, and as per some reports, the Initial lot of F414 engines has already been delivered to India. Likely some misinterpretation, Indian Defence Journalism is famous for that

Sounds BS to me. These are the same people who reported procurement of 5 regiments of QRSAM and Lora Tactical BM for Indian Navy when no such deals had taken place.

Upgrade cost of 150 Su30 MKI is pegged at $4 billion, roughly $27 million per jet, about half the amount spent on upgrading those Mirages with a far superior sensor and avionics suite.

And who is going to pay to upgrade those 200+ Mirages?? India paid $52 million per jet to upgrade the Mirage 2000 from H standard to the I standard(similar to 2000-5Mk2), this upgrade did not even feature an AESA radar let alone an engine upgrade. Do you think that France would ever agree to...

License Assembly != technology development

What can I say, People love jumping to conclusions based on some badly transcribed report rather than having the patience to wait till Aero India to clear the air.