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If you want a cheap but capable VLO fighter jet in the 5-5.5 gen class which is not only easy to procure but also has a low per hour flying cost, then Sukhoi LFS is your jet . Because it uses so many of already proven tech and parts from its larger cousin , it will be relatively cheaper to...

A titanic volume of water has flowed down the river since I had last posted in this thread. For all those people who were saying that the LTS is a mock-up, well there's some bad news. This isn't a wooden mockup hastily assembled . This is the actual prototype and tech demonstrator. Like we...

Look at the saw tooth protrusion at the point where the ventral inlet meets the fuselage . The protrusion is formed by the pronounced Lerx which also doubles up as a chine. This will definitely generate a vortex beyond a certain angle of attack which will help to achieve a lot of things. Some...

The Sukhoi LTS is here. So it's intake matches exactly with the model seen on Borisov's desk some months ago. The ac is definitely a looker. The LTS has a highly swept delta wing . The aft fuselage matches closely with the Mac Donnell Douglas JAST . Besides, with the Izd 30 nozzle...

Don't you think that we should induct a 5th gen jet instead of playing around and fiddling around with more 4th gens . The only reason VKS hasn't ordered more than 76 Pakfa is because of a scarcity of hard cash. It isn't because Pakfa is inferior to the F-35 and F-22.

Thats why I had been saying from my first post here that it's important to note whether it's the real deal or it's a mock-up. Between, as far as Pakfa is concerned, there are tech incorporated in it which would require our engineers another decade to come up with. Just because we hate commies...

Yep there was a time when I too harboured such grandiose illusions . Well , it isn't our call. But that of the IAF. Let's wait and watch .

Yes this is the important point. What needs to be seen is the whether it's a mock-up or the actual ac itself . If the LFS have had its first flight, then rest assured a lot of the R&d had already been done. Besides, being a Sukhoi project, it feeds on the technologies already developed as part...

Have I ever mentioned that we should cancel our MWF program and invest in a foreign fighter ? What I had always mentioned is that this Sukhoi LFS can be acquired under the MRCA tender. Besides Amca and MWF , we have the 114 MRCA competition. Everyone worth his salt here in this forum know...

We should stick to Tejas mk1A and the MWF when most of the other self respecting airforces get 5th gen jets and also participate in multi nation exercises featuring such acs. Look at S Korea. They have their own program. The first KFX block 1 prototype was unveiled recently . Yet they are...

Checkmate to the F-35. The ac is meant for all those nations who are looking for a F-35 class jet but doesn't want to be bagged down with the luggage that is usually associated with any such procurements. Amca is quite some distance away . Won't fly before 2025.

We don't know whether this jet has already had its first flight . Amca will be ready after 2030. HAL can't stick to its production timeline when it came to Tejas IOC and FOC. And you people believe we will stick to the timelines. It may well be the F-35, I don't care. I am rather frustated...

There's a good chance that we see this beauty get inducted into our airforce in meaningful nos. This singled engined 5th gen LMFS ish jet from the stables of Sukhoi won't pose a challenge to Tejas mk2. But it may ruin the chances of Rafale F4 from being shortlisted in the MRCA contest. We...