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Ecuador is not going to buy anything from India for a short while. Nor we want to risk selling something without maintenance package

When is Mk1A is flying?

I thought they have already delivered 3-4 by now. Guess they are flying/under testing by HAL. Hopefully they would deliver the rest 7 by March 2024.

Don’t think we need to concerned on that part cos Argentina ain’t buying Tejas nor sponsoring development/testing of non British parts on them. They are already bankrupt multiple times. plus I think GE404 uses British parts as well. Let’s do say Arg chooses Tejas. We can always get Russian...

I don’t even know why she agrees to act in shitty scripts and movies. I mean Tejas even don’t have an history of war nor it has even intercepted drones or anything of note. This is needless propaganda. Film on how scientists developed the plane inspite of challenges would be an better genre

Overall the 40 ac order is delayed by one year due to Covid stuff. But I guess it’s ok. By next year 8 trainers are to be delivered. And 1st Mk1A has already flown last year. There were reports, HAL would deliver trainers first and then Mk1A, including 10 from the 831A order. Again not sure if...

Remember LM is also part of FA50. LM doesn’t have an equivalent craft to sell. So they are happy to piggyback on KAI and use their marketing and sales expertise to make sales. I mean HAL planned to tie up with local US company to sell it to US Navy tender. It did not happen. If it had happened...

Not sure how serious it is. Our bureaucrats are known to talk big with just an inquiry. If it’s the case, they would have walked into town sitting onto the top of an elephant. Until unless India actually funds an purchase through low interest loans, I find it hard for the first purchase of...

The Covid delay was originally attributed to the IOC and FOC delays. I was hoping this delay is due to trainers being configured for Mk1A setup. Anyway this is quite disappointing. Hopefully they deliver the 18 trainers by end of next year.

If this is really FOC trainer then we are delayed by more than an year.

I meant if Soviets were today. Jets are less expensive only if you are making by the hundreds or thousands. Example in case is F35. Rafale flyaway costs is 85m approx from media reports. F35 would be reaching that price in a few years. Second, even if we absorb the fly away costs, the...

Jets are getting costlier by the day and even Soviets can’t manufacture 1000s of jets they did for Mig 21 today. Navy reduced their number for 26 cos they are convinced to go for TEDBF now. That TEDBF programme is now floundering is a different argument now as still Qualitative requirements is...

Rafale build in india will be very expensive compared to getting from France. And build for even just 100 with 26 Rafale M would be unsuitable. All the components would have to be imported. As for Su30mki deal IAF and GoI knew from the very onset that they are going to buy 200+ aircraft’s, it’s...

lol yea. I thought it meant something else. 😂😂

Development and testing teams are heavily compartmentalized. The reason is pretty simple, the development team should not be involved in testing. Some companies do it through third party, some do it internally with strict protocols. At this point, the test pilots are not part of IAF, they are...

I work in electronics and I know what I am talking about. Every product goes through phases like DVT-1,2.., EVT and finally PVT, and that’s when mass prototypes are manufactured and tested (much like Beta software releases). This is where the product development is expected to be in the last...

No weapon tests have been done with Uttam FCR yet.

Exactly what I was talking about and reason I call our radar paper tiger at this point. The Americans had a chance to test their missile and radars in actual wars and they had a chance to refine. They assumed it would work, failed and probably worked on to rectify this mistake. But Indian radar...

As I said, flights done by very few experimental test pilots cannot replace hundreds of inputs provided by actual users aka pilots. And weapons test have to be conducted as well on Uttam. Don’t fly the chickens before they are hatched. Uttam will take its own sweet time to mature and that can...

All of the so called updates from Indranil is BS at this point. Until unless an radar is deployed, data gathered, none can call an paper radar, leading edge. As much hardware for radar, software is also much important in ignoring clutters and what not. And that data can only be gathered when...