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The design study, vessel design, R&D on components will have to start much earlier than the construction. Well that is true, no one knows what we will go for.The French will have CATOBAR on their ships and will also operate the E-2. The British may work on something similar. A hybrid STOVL for the F-35 and CATOBAR for the E-2. Who knows what we may go for? We intend to field these carriers only after 2020.
There is just one contract for development of a EW suit and it’s with BAE and the contract has been awarded to them by LM.On a side note: The F-35 is already way too advanced for us to bother with. There are 2 versions of EW suites on the F-35. One is being built by LM for US and the other is being built by BAE for export.
Anyways, India "may" face similar restrictions with the MRCA deal. Then, I doubt we will go with the American fighters especially considering IAF love to tinker with their aircraft.
By my estimation, when the time to produce a plane comes it will be 30-40 years from now, the technology would have jumped to a whole new level and we will have a cutting edge electronics and aviation industry. Advanced early warning might have a completely different meaning by that time.Then that's fine in the short run. In the long run we will have to look for our own version. No doubt the Chinese and Russians will want to work on their own AEW aircraft too.
ODL for the Indian military, others are not worth in a military configured around something else.Link 22 of course or do you mean the ODL.
Mate of the two planes An-71 is a failure that could not take off a ski-jump carrier on its own power, and the Yak-44 never got past the wooden mock up stage, after receiving no funding from home or abroad its dead, now the engineers working on it are long retired, and i doubt the experience anyone would have kept from a mock up, the requirement is a completely new program.Mate the 2 pictures I posted were both meant for carrier aviation. An-71 and Yak-44.
An interesting read
They have not completed their study for the future carriers, i doubt the decision is final, and they have been quoted saying that fifth generatin planes on the future carriers are a requirement, i think the timeline they have in mind is quite similar to ours, however much needs to happen before anything is for certain.The Russians will go for STOBAR, no STOVL since they plan to use Flankers for their carriers. CATOBAR, I doubt it.
The Russians will employ AEW on carriers since they have already worked on it before. The An-71 and Yak-44 were being built for STOBAR operation.
I guess now is just not the right time to be talking about these projects.