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You do understand that the aircrafts can either excel in one field or be Jack of all trades. Being jack of all trades it is no longer fit to carry out strategic and deep actions. Lets assume a MRCA is asked to do bombing so it needs to carry bombs and not the missiles as that the requirement...

Kindly share the maths behind it. I would love to know how that happens. It should be first targeted benchmark.

Yes, true its no longer a number game but Numbers do boost you up and give confidence. Again I do not get the point here we need single role aircraft who are the working horse of the IAF which are cost effective cheap and maintenance friendly. One can say Tejas is not any of those but with the...

Why 90 MMRCA? This requirement created by IAF has not helped them in any way. What IAF needs to increase the numbers currently is Force Govt to Pull the switch over ADA DRDO and HAL. Make HAL deliver on MK1A . Put two assemblies on the current order and Make DRDO ADA deliver MKII by 2025-2026...

"No Fighter Shortfall" seriously we have been short fro Fighter aircraft for Last 15 Years at least. Lets say I started following defense when Vajpayee Ji Named LCA Tejas and if my memory serves me well we have been having serious shortfalls. Today we have a number with us 42 , the number of...

You stating that GripenE and F16 might kill mk2 which is very much true and even I am against it. But thanks to the standstill during the UPA governmnet and Slow (the did move files)movement during the NDA we have not much options left. We will loose close to 18 squads in next 10 years whereas...

Do they have same standards when it come to foran maal? No. They just don't want Indian product. Imported Air Force

Can Anyone please tell me that's not what IAF Said? Please Please

http://idrw.org/tejas-far-behind-competitors-not-enough-to-protect-indian-skies-iaf/ Tejas – the indigenously made Light-Combat single engine fighter – isn’t enough to protect Indian skies, the India Air Force (IAF) has told the government. The response came after the South Block asked the IAF...

Your comment is not clear . So replying on the query "why we need both Rafales and F - 16s since our own bird is out flying them already before the FOC." We do not need Rafale or F16 in particular but we do need one more Aircraft. Tejas will be inducted in bulk in the Mk2 version till then only...

yes its difficult and tricky but can be done Yes they want a milking cow We are assembling them here not manufactuing just like Su. Rectify me if there is any TOT option in T90s Deal.

Yes technology transfer will be the main motive behind this I doubt, we have other options we are not workign enough on trainer aircrafts they also have huge demand along with the helis there can be no such engine. Anything that has more than 65% indigenous is a good bet for Make IN India. If...

200 plus Rafales will leave us with no budget to buy anything for next two decades. Americans cannot eat our Indigenous aircraft industry as we are yet to have one. Tejas and its production line cannot be called one + Americans are coming in partnership with an Indian Firm so if we can use and...

Your interpretation was not what I meant. I never suggested that. Not been able to build my faith in the top brass of IAF and IA for long now. As Tejas is concerned I was called Tejas Bhakt , Team Tejas etc etc on this same forum. I am all in for Tejas.

yes they do. that's why there was a availability clause in Rafale deal. 28 is not bad given we have 33 in hand. i will be happy with that percentage if we had 42-44 Squad Nice U have a friend in IAF . I know a few in Army and Navy. Ex defense personal tell me that Tejas is fit to be the Work...

Availability is a different scenario, but currently we do have these many squad. Then the other factor is that a sqad can range from 2 Min to 18 aircrafts, these numbers cannot be calculated that way. Every Aircraft has different availability rate. Currently we do have 33 Squads

Not Sure if i favour F16 or not but we cannot replace all the retiring aircrafts with Tejas. We have 33 Squadron 11 less than the required to fight 2 front war. This means 198 Aircrafts Short. We are planning to retire or we will be forced to retire another 10 squadron by 2025-2030 which will...

I believe you are saying that we don't want new type of aircrafts ... when it comes to numbers yes we need more in todays scenario.... The squad fleet of 42(Which is down to 32 or so) is not sufficient to counter balance Pakistan and China Together..... I also do not think other than Tejas...