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Who told you that F22 was not for strike role? F35 is a cheaper alternative as F22 had major issue in maintenance and expense.

Tealth aircrafts are for air superiority and strike roles. AMCA is no exception. In air superiority also, the stealthier the plane is, lesser detection

What is the point of WVR missile without BVR missile. With AESA radar, BVR is minimum requirements About the internal bay having 2 A2G missile carrying ability, that is what you get for internal storage. If you want more then you have to use pylons

When they say 8G, they mean 8G at all altitudes and in all climates. The so called 9G works only in the colder climates of Europe or USA. The engines can't handle that in Indian climate. The engines will not be overpowered to 115kN as the turbofans work efficiently at maximum power and hence the...

Kaveri K9 is not F404 level engine. If the bypass is increased, it will become F414 class engine. The bypass of 0.16 is too small and will be increased. The F414 is for initial prototypes only, not permanent solution. F414 is a reliable engine and hence prototypes need the reliability for...

Can you point me where the supercruise ability of Tejas is mentioned? Otherwise, you can't claim that the info was excluded. ADA may not be giving importance to Super cruise and hence does not put it as a parameter anywhere consistently

Let us compare AMCA with F35: Empty weight: AMCA- 12-13 tonnes; F35- 13 tons Fuel: AMCA- 6tonnes; F35- 8.5tons Internal payload: AMCA- 6xAstra or 2x500kg LGB + 2xAstra =1.5tons; F35- 2x1000kg LGB + 2xAIM9 =2.5tons External payload: AMCA- 5tons; F35- 6+tons F35 with 6.5tons fuel and 1.5ton...

100kN Kaveri is what is in line. The EPE F414 is for 110kN and that is still a dream. The Kaveri is likely to match F414 engines AFAIK and flat rated to F404 level

Internal fuel + payload is 20 tonnes. So, to increase internal payload, the fuel will have to be reduced. I guess, it will be 6tonne fuel and 1-2 tonne payload internally. If the total weight is just 25tonnes, the 100kN Kaveri engine itself can power it to glory. The plane will have higher TWR...

Russia and China also have RAM coating technology. But, unlike USA, Russia is not hyping on stealth. No matter what coating is used, the radar cross section won't be 0. It is not that RAM coating on MiG21 can make it stealth plane. So, considering the advancement in radar system to GaAs AESA and...

What is advanced manufacturing facility? Hiw can an advanced facility exist without advanced technology being transferred? You want some advanced manufacturing facility to manufacture simple metallic airframe?

As long as the basic design is suitable for 5th generation operation, it is better to first get the plane functional and then upgrade it to full potential along with all the feedback for improvement. AMCA with 4.5 generation technology may be the need mass manufacturing of medium payload...

Maybe the idea is to have HAL make Tejas plane and provide expertise to the private sector to make AMCA. There is no actual competition between HAL and private sector. It is just the government policy of building a military industrial complex that requires redundancy. In war, if one of the...

The most important aspect of all aircrafts today is Fly-By-Wire. FBW is the hardest aspect of modern fighters. There is no way one can steal the codes for it. So, without the codes, one will have to develop one's own codes. And since no person thinks exactly like the other, there are bound to...

USA not only keeps tab over communications but also reduce the technology level if these agreements are not signed. USA wants to keep a person as an ombudsman in India to ensure that the technology is in safe hands. The key technology provided by USA will be transmitting information in USA...

USA has made it clear that BECA and CISMOA/COMCASA have to be signed before they even allow India to try their technology.

It is not about the need for stealth but about inability to use stealth in carrier operation due to logistics. So, the internal bays are removed and the space better filled with fuel. The wing station and pylons are what will be important. So, the stealth feature is unnecessary. The AMCA should...

That typical loadout is for stealth mission- 2LGB+2 Astra. This is not suitable for carrier based operation except in a few situations. There is no air superiority in the ocean. You simply take out all enemy ships and clear the oceans. Only on land whereby the enemy has too many installations...

Actually, the stealth mission can carry 1 missile or 2 PGM. Even a super carrier is likely to have just 30 planes and rest 10 choppers (to have AEWACS and attack missile boats and other terrorist boats approaching). Also, we can't afford to waste precious fuel of 5ton or more per sortie to...

Writing long articles with no content but their own whims and fancies have become a fashion these days. These people don't even know what technology is coming from ToT and what is not but simply go on ranting that for some strange reason India is not capable of developing its own technology...