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I think the apprehension to purchase rafale or for that any foreign jet is very something else. It's political capital. Last time we bought 36 of those for 8/9 billion USD and it raised a storm of shit. Purchase of any foreign tactical aircraft is going to be very very difficult going forward...

I am sorry but shouldnt Mongolia claim all of china?

Granted,That totally depends on wether we act preemptively or not,If we do then Cheeni air force can be neutered in 12-24 hours with minimal losses of not then we might end up taking a blow.Plus cheenis are also developing a Long range stealth bomber like the B-2 so we gotta watch out for that...

All of this is good but we need to build up squadron numbers fast,really really fast. Chinese have some 7 military airbases in tibet and xinjiang in close proximity.Granted they cannot take off with fuel and payload in those regions but they also have a good fleet of tanker aircrafts and bombers...

Mk1a can carry little over 4 tonnes but will have to sacrifice on its internal fuel.Its limited by it's wing design and fuselage length.It sacrifices a lot of things.Mainly smaller fuselage and smaller wings.That negate any space for any meaningful loadout that can be hung below it.The wings...

I've been saying this for quite some time now. All Tejas needs is a dual ejector rack and it is a kick ass all round fighter.Mk2 MWF will be even better(hope it gets those triple ejector rack like F-21/Rafale). It'll be able to perform missions better than mirage 2000 and mig-29 hands down...

Both are different things. Despite HAL making quite a lot of things for Su-30mki(which has a much bigger order) still ends up costing more here than it will cost directly purchasing from russia.

And price will escalate further.

MWF will have enough payload and thrust to make up for one less engine.So MWF is the perfect replacement for Mog-29 UPG.And MWF will bring almost everything the rafale brings to the airforce.IRST,Integrated EW,Good payload(6 tonnes) and adequate range and on top of low turn around times and low...

Imports are out of question. We dont have money and wont have for quite some time.At least 5-7 years. Plus In 9-10 years of time MWF will be ready negating the need for any imported jet.

Okay so a quick economic lesson to IAF chief. 114 Fighter aircrafts that they want to purchase will cost as of now some 19 billion USD(airframes themselves cost 100 million USD plus and then there is training spares maintenance weapons package india specific upgrades and infrastructure...

They have already cut the budget by a huge margin and dont make payments on time then why do you think with Corona pandemic they wont cut the budget further more.I wouldnt be shocked to see 0 rupee for capital expenditure. Budget cuts will happen and military will be the first...

Even i know Tejas itself isnt adequate but it will get the job done barely with other resources and assets.A lot more needs to be done on all fronts. Long range standoff weapons need to be integrated,Towed EW has to be validated.Tactics and training protocols need to be devised and what not...

Okay. So Where is the money to purchase 36-54(2-3 squadrons) of Rafale? ______________________________ ALready the GST collection has shrunk by 30000 crore in just 1 month.There is no money to go and wont be for another 2-3 years. We should purchase what we can afford not something we cant...

I have 0 doubt that rafale is the best present day 4.5+ gen fighter aircraft made till date.It has adequate real estate and good fuel capacity.Its EW is great and fine.Hell if we had the money i would have asked for 10 Rafale squadrons but present day economic realities are different.We have to...

400 Of Rafale and Su-30mki isnt gonna happen.That basically translates to 7 squadrons(126 jets) of Rafale and we currently have 2 squadrons on order(36jets). 36 is the final number that we have and any more of imports will cripple the budget for a long time.Already the budget has depressed the...

With proper amount of funding and orders HAL can deliver 24 aircrafts per year.Plus quality hasnt been an issue. And 10 squadrons(180 jets) will be delivered till 2029/30,When MWF comes online it will be produced.So 18-24 jets per year of production is enough for now.When MWF comes we may have...

Breaking news. We dont have money. __________________________ So simply order 10 squadrons of Tejas mk1a in total and be done with imported fighter drama. Right now the best course would be to order more mk1a an go full throttle on mk2 MWF and Su-30mki upgrade.Order Netra AWACS 6-9 of them...

Wet dream.

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