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We have signed them plenty of times.. with GE. If we ever wanted to expedite it.. simply ask Russian for the same with their new fifth gen engine etc.. Or atleast let Safran design the one for Tejas and co. GE will itself come crawling for the pie this way or other.

Don't do much conspiracy and stuff. RR is good but they weren't offering everything as it may seem. And Safran have a very refined engine. GE is a step ahead. We have already designed Tejas based on GE class engine from the get go. And the engine performed flawlessly. We had seen the...

There is more to an airframe life than just composite which comes in production. Also we haven't yet got the 9000 flying hours by HAL. We will have to wait to see that. Even Dassault claim 6000 hours for Rafale. So it's pretty good . Anyway I am hopeful that Mk1a onwards we will streamline...

Lol 1. Al 31 doesn't need to be used for long to have problems it doesn't have as many flying hours either in comparison to GE engines either. 2. We went for GE engines long before UPA existed . So just don't throw anything out of nowhere. 3. Tejas was built around GE engine and we wanted to...

We have invested heavily with RAFALE now so it's unwise to waste all that money. Rest , they are good naval jets but there was a reason USAF opted for F-16s and F-15s and not F-18s. Regarding Sukhoi we have the jet, we will upgrade them ourselves with Indian avionics by the end of this...

Where you get that info from ? 1. Context ? Nope you have been just shifting here and there. 2. Al 31 has shown many mid air engine failures in normal flying conditions and their fault core components for which we have complained multiple times so let's not talk about war time for now. 3...

The engine life of FE -414 is much more than the AL 31 we got also its low maintenance in comparison. While the airframe life of Tejas might be around 4000+ flying hours or may be 6 in later batches of mk2. But yes we will need atleast 500 plus of those with 200+ Tejas and 100 something for...

1. Don't change Goalposts. 2. I havent found any statement about increase in dry thrust but if they are modifying the core there might be some . Though it doesn't make much difference as the dry thrust is enough and pretty fuel efficient to keep Tejas like small jet in the air for longer...

Hmm may be... It's "turbofan " though. They basically want to control India through fighter jet deal. Make us dependent on them. It's not somehow ... They studied this before and with marginal increase they can increase the afterburner thrust by 10-15 % that is inbetween 105-113 range. 2...

Nothing bro ... Just throwing arrows in air .. some may struck the target and turnout to be true. But yes it is very likely that they will mention predators and engine development in the statement about defence cooperation.

You can learn a great deal out of this rest depends on how you use the learning which we will not as usual. Not really , the increase in cost is due to multiple factors. First being our workforce being very inefficient due to several reason . But mainly since we have to build different...

In these 22 years 2+ squadron are already in service. Logic dictates those who know how to (copy) build a 4th gen aircraft should have been able to build a fifth gen much easier with all the infrastructure in hand. Also we weren't getting gifts from Western industries like chinese did. For...

Chinese used Russian engine in their fifth gen . Ejection seats of MB are used world over. As far as Tejas is concerned Dassault was the preliminary design consultant in the beginning. Why it became serious with only canard design ? 😂 Su 30 has canards but Su 35 don't . Does that mean Su 35...

Cost... Rafales are on expensive side... And GOI isn't willing to open purse. Unfortunately all the options IAF seeks are expensive. Other than this they will have F-16s and Gripen . It's just a pressure tactics by IAF to make GOI buy more. Most probably they will renegotiate with...

From West ? They basically stole everything from Nazi Germans.

We would have pursued it anyway... Instead of Mk1a though you would have seen mk2+ with learning from Mirage production and design coming into it. But yes instead of 274 Sukhoi you might be seeing 140-200 max. Mig 21 would have been retired early by 2012-17 schedule. And if and if... Many...

For those 200+ we had option of our own inhouse production and upgraded one from the get go. Israel offered to modify Mirage too. French even offered to have kaveri engine on Rafale if ready. We would have our own engine manufacturing line with M53 and could have been used for Tejas if needed...

Lol you basically stole their stuff which is something we could have done too but ethics are something which coronese... don't understand.

We learnt a lot through Sukhoi and mig 21 Jaguar manufacturing. China learnt and improvised through same process. Mirage was top of the line...in light fighter category. still it's a good jet . If we had 200+ Mirages armed with mica etc. on the border situation would have been completely...

Have answered same thing multiple times.. There was no comic book level demand but just. Do you think the current Tejas mk2 path is comic level stuff ? MRFA aka MMRCA wasn't for just 126 either initially it was 240 Mirages then 126+ more .option etc etc. having 126 potent one is...