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GE-414 TOT permission letter out within 2-3 weeks by US govt? We'll see. He is expecting 10 squadrons, 6 in batch 1 and 4 in batch 2. Air Force is not even mentioning the batch 2. Damn, the wind tunnel testing done abroad requires 1+ year of advance booking. Good to hear that they are...

No, not taking it personally. Its obviously not a personal attack. I think we are too conscious of becoming like the PDF trolls but a simple solution to this is sticking to facts and then weaving them into your arguments in a way that present our weapons in a positive light. BTW, even Brits and...

And I am factually correct, aren't I?

When you've achieved total air superiority over Pakistan after a certain duration of war, the ability to maneuver would be secondary to the amount of boom sticks you can carry. Bhai does it look like I am comparing the entire heavy aircraft to the light aircraft? I am not that dumb bro. If we...

Wiki is not a reliable source, but its citing Sukhoi official as its source. That said, FAS is also a reliable source, so maybe they increased payload capacity to 6000kg later on. That is still 25% less than what Su-30 can do. And TEDBF would carry even more than Su-30 lol. BTW, Tejas Mk1...

Maybe, but I am not sure how much the canards are useful for lift generation. I think the major reason would likely be structural limitation of some kind.

So that restriction being in place, especially as a structural limitation, would mean that a Su-27 carries less payload than a Tejas Mk1, right? YES! New Tejas fact to brag about!

Yeah, that is what I thought as well, until I saw this last night:- ^And the sauce is stated to be https://www.sukhoi.org/eng/planes/military/su27sk/lth/ Didn't they update it to 4500kg in FOC?

Su-27 is not the Su-30 though. So like @mist_consecutive said, they aren't certified to fly the payload of Su-30. What I mean is a country like, say, Indonesia, can't really carry more than a Tejas Mk1 on its Su-27. This is a bit befuddling as even I used to think of the Su-27 as a slightly...

I am not talking about Su-30, rather Su-27. And Su-27 does have a multimode radar, so its not as if it can't carry A2G munitions like bombs etc.

Call me dumb or whatever, but I realized this just today: Tejas Mk2 has the same payload capacity as AMCA, F-35B, KF-21, Mirage, Hornet and MiG-35 And more than J-10C. I mean I knew about Mirage, but the rest? WTF is wrong with me? EDIT: Holy Hell! Su-27 has LESS payload capacity than Tejas...

HAL could be planning to keep the bearings in the inventory then, that is the only explanation. Although why would they? Especially with warranty running out in 24 months, they can't keep in inventory longer than 2 years. One possibility could be that HAL is doing this according to a best case...

How? 31 per annum for four years and 16 in the fifth year. That is around 140 jets which at 20 jets per squadron is 7 squadrons worth. It says production phase bearings are to be supplied in 2026. Not that production will start in 2026. Which indicates that the final assembly of around 31 jets...

Alright, found the source, its this tender: https://hal-india.co.in/Tender_Details.aspx?Mkey=63&lKey=&Ckey=MzkxOTc=&Divkey=MTY= Its in the file titled "PDF1308TB1.pdf" last page. EDIT: Posting here for posterity. Courtesy Alpha Defence and @Vamsi :-

Some firm official deadlines finally! This sounds like its enough for around 7 squadrons? Do we got the sauce?

Western airforces consider them light weight because they follow the Light-Heavy classification. IAF considers them medium weight because they follow the Light-Medium-Heavy classification. In their book, MiG-21 and LCA are light fighters. Although technology creep plays a role in all these...

He may be right about the timeline seeing as they are skipping the TD stage and going straight to PV stage.

Bloody journos. Asking him a loaded question and then misconstruing his statement. He clearly said that AMCA being an ADA project, he can't really put a timeline on it. Here is what he said:- But the journo quoted him out of context. He says 2020-32, not 2035. Later, he says this:- So he just...

But they should have started to do it by now if they wanted to. Redesigning the airframe to take advantage of a new press created 5 years from now would lead to cost and time overruns. You're right, we'll need large presses for almost every major aerospace program we intend to undertake. Large...

They aren't even making titanium bulkheads. Going Aluminum.