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If the idea is expansion beyond HAL. Then why not make it more practical? Draft a policy and go the ATAGS way. Select two contractors, ask each to build one NGTD. Whosoever comes with a better-manufactured aircraft gets manufacturing order for 2/3rd of total AMCA and runner-up getting 1/3rd of...

So basically ADA is considering other options besides HAL for manufacturing AMCA. Which makes me wonder who could they be? Does any of TATA, Mahindra or L&T have the requisite capability for manufacturing flying TDs of a 5th generation aircraft? Is this a too radical move. I would say Yes.

Engine, Engine and Engine alone will suffice. And if French is smart they would not let ~30 billion USD go.

In fact, every other 5th generation fighter concept and design-- optimised more for air-to-air than air-to-ground-- out there looks close cousins of F-22. AMCA has see design evolution. From vertical tail-less MCA circa 2002 to 3B08 now. Which clearly suggests that once Ghatak was approved the...

For some strange reasons ever since Admiral Lamba assumed the office of CNS, I am witnessing a strange trajectory taking Navy away from preferring indigenous. They have already killed N-LCA which is --as it can not be replaced-- the stepping stone to Naval AMCA. However, Navy which could waste...

Meaning they are not same............. An answer to your query.

This version has the potential to give Gripen run for its money. Let alone Gripen E becoming the workhorse of IAF by becoming single-engine fighter winner.......But this is what we think. The Air Marshals along with (now sadly) Admirals think that there are multiple benefits of buying a foreign...

The Same logic is being peddled for the last 6 years. That's one-third of the time it usually takes to induct IOC version of any fighter jet. And this was the whole point. We don't know how long it will take to complete negotiations and get the first batch of Indian PAK-FA aka FGFA. For...

That's because of we on two horses at the same time. Which is not FGFA and AMCA but whether to get it done from outside or do it ourselves? Russians need money for PAK-FA so they will keep pressing and import loving IAF will keep bending even if it is not happy with the technical parameters of...

I think all three nations are having their UCAV programs running before Iran took down RQ-170. One may want to look into but what exactly? It was a reconnaissance UAV with encrypted software.

This is serpentine air intake of AURA program whose intake starts at and above nose section, going through the spine and meeting turbine intake fan, just like nEURon's. After the cancellation of M-MRCA tender, Shiv Aroor seems to have lost it completely. AURA nEURon

Basic errors in modeling. Swept angle of both Main wing and elevator has to same. Which is not in the graphic above.

That time is not very far in future. In fact i expect PAF to start inducting J-31 anytime from 2020 onwards. PLAAF on other hand has already started inducting J-20s. I don't want to sound cynical but it seems a deliberate case is being made. IAF delayed FGFA over engine and radar as if they...

India has a superpower on its eastern and northern side and a slave of which on its western border who won't shy of going extra length to please his master. For that reason we need to be prepared for a two front war. We need equipments in numbers. No matter how advance a jet fighter is it can't...

You summed up quite well. Very little to add. India does not have a economy of the size of China. But India is a very big market in itself be it civilian or military. We spend billions of dollars annually on importing defense equipment. Some of these weapons are as low tech or simple as a hand...

Please state those so that we can discuss further. Five years ago a twin engine version of Tejas might have been an option, and yes a good one but now at this point it is no longer the perfect option, specially considering need for a VLO version sometime after 2025. ADA's design team has...

Realistically speaking if detailed design is frozen today, it will take 5 years from now to roll out first prototype. Couple more years to first flight. Atleast 5 years more for IOC. Now if you bring variables like uncertainty on engine. the timeline could stretch even further. That when we are...

You missed what i had written. Read again "I say develop a non stealthy LO version of AMCA with equal or greater capability than Rafale by 2025". As for shaping, well we have been working on it since quite some time and work is already beyond 'preliminary design stage'. And timeline that i...

I have often wondered at our mentality. Here we are going as slow as we rediculously could on AMCA being as frugal as we could. And why because we think there is a fleet of 36 Rafales coming in to keep us secure. And we don't know yet if negotiations will conclude even in next 7 years. I say...

And a good store full of spares, large enough to keep majority of fleet operational at any given time. And it is just one of many benefits IAF could reap if it cancels Rafale.