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most likely IJT or if it ever happens, HLFT-42 will take place of retiring Hawks or those Kirans if any in service Tejas part of Surya Kiran aerobatics team seems overkill for us, 'specially when we direly needs numbers in actual fighting squadrons

even a gujju science magazine had mentioned about China's interest in LCA project around 2004 times here highlighted with red lines Article is a question from readers about in terms of performance how LCA Tejas compares with much renowned Eurofighter; and after comparative explanation the...

I wonder if Mk1 Tejas did not get those desi SPECTRA like protection suit on it, because of power consumption constraints? because we had to do lots of rework to get an AESA like ELTA or Uttam on it already and putting another dedicated power hogging electronic warfare and protection thing would...

didn't they try that "Mayawi" system for missile warning and other ew jamming ? was it shifted for Mk1A or Mk2 ?

laser warning receivers?

Ghost of Karnavati

yes why not :troll: it's totally ok to carpet bomb the paxtani vehicles in parking lot

🤔 judging from wing shape and all, is that Mig-29 of some flavour ? also from where ? what is that pod above the ruusi missile ?

but even then, developing capabilities is a must, back then IAF and HAL/ADA did not consider the protection pod part and now we have to start over while others are moving towards advanced things; and even on AMCA getting a F-35 style integrated EOTS is a question itself as of now, while China is...

so like, antennas on wingtips or in general far away places from central fuselage, attached via internal wiring to a centrally located SPJ unit ? 🤔 is there any existing example of such things, SPECTRA maybe ?

hhmm in this case can we try to integrate SPJ on Mk2 giving that it's yet to be made, is going to be powered with better engine and is in 'medium' category now we should seriously consider all these things to integrate EOTS, SPJ and so on future jets from beginning at suitable positions...

just a question since i'm noob when it comes to electronics etc; this jamming pod's shape is quite similar to those laser IR targeting pods etc meant for underbelly pylon on Tejas; say, by any engineering magic and all, can we integrate both in one single unit ? granted it may go heavier but...

man just search his name on DFI search bar, at least 20 posts are there criticizing that jackass here, half of them are by our own @ersakthivel only who also dueled with another known tejas critic and gripen fan @Sancho time to time.

This is exactly what i also argued for in past, and with recent HLFT-42 announcement it seems we may go that way to fill the numbers with that for cheap, mass produceable, super sonic fighter-interceptor jet, we SHOULD. (off-topic for this thread but) to all aviation geek-nerds here, what is...

...or just make our own Refueling Drones ? seriously how hard is it ? it's just a flying machine that pumps down fuel to flying jets...we already are making that Ghatak UCAV and what not for combat roles so just fork a refueling uav out of it 🤷‍♂️

This must be after effect of that General Electrics deal for starting joint production of F414 engines here, else without sourcing engines of all IAF would think infinite times before going orders way let's see if we also bring F404 line here or better upgrade all Mk1A with F414 in future (yeah...

needs some ;headwear; and sunglasses and some BGM and it's all good to go :thumbsup:

i wish there was one such declassified paper on SoKorean KAI T-50 as well, because they too have claimed a lot about their jet

Yep they have added a big muzzle brake on it that seem to be diverting half of gases towards downwards same exact thing is also there on JF-17

Mass factor is correct albeit numbers given here for GSh-30-1 is for gun only while ADEN's is with 200 rounds of ammo, empty ADEN weights about 87.1 Kg ; twice than Gsh-30-1; but for a 50s era gun i consider this weight mostly ok if we could go through an indigeneous modernisation effort with...