Yes, it makes perfect sense to order the additional aircraft in newer config.
How many GTX37-14U and GTX37-14UB were produced to power fighter jets?
Trump has caught the tail of Lizard and is playing with it before throwing it back into the water.:biggrin2:
How many fighters or planes did India designed to start with?
India had followed the path of license production and stayed true to it unlike someone near enough who are notorious for industrial espionage. Although it had not worked fine for India in long run.
To use an indigenous engine, one needs to have a indigenous platform to use it. Tell me one nation who produces a jet engine but don't have a home grown jet program to use it. So you see, India too has started from scratch long back in 1950s itself. But it is absence of political will and money which has constrained the effort.
BTW one more arrest was made in US on industrial espionage case. A foreign employ of Apple was charged on design theft of a stealth unmaned vehicle Apple was working on. Do you know who was he and where from he got job offer before doing the theft?
So, after all these pretty words, there is only one thing related to the discussion here: unlike what Indian fanboys believe, the reason of Kaveri trouble is it did get started from scratch.
How many fighters or planes did India designed to start with?
India had followed the path of license production and stayed true to it unlike someone near enough who are notorious for industrial espionage. Although it had not worked fine for India in long run.
To use an indigenous engine, one needs to have a indigenous platform to use it. Tell me one nation who produces a jet engine but don't have a home grown jet program to use it. So you see, India too has started from scratch long back in 1950s itself. But it is absence of political will and money which has constrained the effort.
BTW one more arrest was made in US on industrial espionage case. A foreign employ of Apple was charged on design theft of a stealth unmaned vehicle Apple was working on. Do you know who was he and where from he got job offer before doing the theft?
You have to start somewhere. If all goes well, Tejas MK2 will be a product like Gripen E in next decade. HOwever we need an ecosystem to complement that. Building up private companies on the backbone of PSUs in India will achieve this.
Yes.... India started its Jet Engine program from scratch. It just didn't stole the tech from others as someone who is notorious for that.
No su 30 mki has indigenous content....I hv forgotten the percentage though
In Su30 made in India, India is having almost 100% indigenous technology. Only a few technology like IRST is from Russia. Engine, Radar, avionics etc are all India made with full indigenisation. Some royalty payment like imports of nuts, bolts etc at high cost is done.
do you have any source/link?...................................
This is something I have explained in over 100 posts. I am too tired to repost the sources. Read the above post and follow the sources as given in the link of the different posts in the Kaveri engine thread of this forum.
That is number of parts. Of the 40000 parts, over 10000 are nuts, bolts, fasteners and other simple things. That is not correct way of defining indigenisation
JF-17 was designed for Pak specifically, they participated the work from beginning.
There's more Indian content in Su-30MKI than there is Paki content in JF-17.
So, what did they contribute?
