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Because you are missing the context it was spoken in. IDF needed more range and payload (though it came at the cost of removal of certain avionics) so they developed Mirage V out of Mirage 3. We need range and payload of Tejas to increase so we are developing Tejas MK-2. But it does not mean...

Again point was the improvement in desired areas, so comparison. Change to better examples if you like but idea was conveyed the first time.

Mirage V was an improvement over Mirage 3 in terms of range and payload and that was the whole point. IAF Tejas MK-1 has shorter range over proposed version of IAF MK-2. You are losing context in which this example was put forth.

Digital Fly By Wire that the Dassault denied selling to us was developed totally indigenously completely. At that time it was very cutting edge. This is something that even SAAB could not do for its Gripen. Though the Tejas as a platform in tail-less delta configuration is a simple design but...

Actual Tejas, the MK-1 as an IOC version is already in service with IAF. The ongoing developments that you might be referring towards are just weaponisation-- gun, BVRAAM etc. Flight performance envelope is already expanded close to the maximum i.e +8 gs and -3.5g. In fact, if you look at the...

"""""""MUMBAI: Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba today said India is indigenously building AIP-enabled submarines. "We are making our own AIP (air independent propulsion) indigenous system with DRDO. At present, project definition is going on. Prototypes based plant is being constructed and once...

Yeah you are right. I am getting tired getting over this Rafale example being used. Though it came out in connection for supporting a point that DRDO will have its AIP ready in or around due time. And that DRDO's performance when working with NAVY yields results of different magnitude wrt. other...

Now a days most of the aircraft features open architecture and most of the weapons just integrates in plug and play mode with pylon interface. That's not the question. By ToT I mean source code for AESA radar and SPECTRA for not just updating their mission files but also upgrading them with...

That's what every other vendor say that their's is the best. Anyway I am not arguing if Rafale is best or not. Certainly it is for France because it can be and will be regularly updated. But can I say for IAF? Answer is no. IAF can not update its fleet of Rafale regularly and will always be...

HAL produced both SU-30MKI and BAE HAWK are gauranteed by their respective OEMs. So please spare me with rants about HAL. Don't give us the technology in the way and amount we want then why buy from France only? There are many vendors. And BTW we just bought our last fighter jet from France...

Actually, these were known even before we projected a requirement to purchase those 36 Rafales. Don't forget we were sitting with Dassault for 4 years across a table doing just that. Yet it took us torturous one and half year to seal the deal. You really think it's that easy. Honestly speaking...

And we have something called INS Arihant; designed jointly by DRDO and Navy and build jointly by HSL and L&T. Still, i did not get your point.

Really? INS Arihant as per some unofficial sources has already entered service. Since this submarine is not under direct control of Navy but SFC Navy has refused to comment. Vikrant is not under trials yet. But by 2018 it will enter. And there aren't any doubts about its success. However...

You forgot to mention Project ATV (INS Arihant), Vikrant-class Carrier (Project 71), Vishakhapatnam-class Destroyers(Project 15B), Kamorta-class corvettes (Project 28), Varunshashtra HWT etc. You know the list is very long and comes with a difference. Which is these are Naval projects, unlike...

And we are used to such nervous opinions wrapped in a veil of fact being passed on us every time we get close to develop any new piece of technology aimed at making us independent in a particular area. Examples are many. Fact of the matter is DRDO developed AIP may or may not find its place in...

In 2002 we had our most threatening terrorist attack in history that is on our Parliament. So what was expected of us? We had put our army on border to pressurise Pakistan to stop its intelligence agency sponsored terrorist attacks in India. And here your Government puts your only carrier in...

My bad, it got mixed out of carelessness. Sorry. I meant "during 2002 hostilities" with Pakistan.

Correct! IAF had modified the Mirages with Isreali help.

Indeed! During Kargil when Navy started manoeuvring fearing escalation of war (due to Pakis unwillingness to vacate the Kargil posts despite having given the levity by us), the French Navy had responded by stationing Charles de Gaulle battle group to maintain what they called tranquillity at...

What i see coming out of this blow is a serious searching for alternatives, one of which will be fast tracking indigenous option.