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Need to handle the accident like mature people. The law of statistics will prevail, sooner or later. When you are undertaking thousands of sorties an occasional failure is part of life. The most advanced F35 has crashed more than once, Chinese fighters have regularly crashed, Su 35's have...

Why are we looking at refurbishment of the R73 missile?. Because I believe we have an inventory numbering in a few thousands. Came across a report alluding to the quoted numbers.If you have a reliable official source to dispute the numbers,please do so. Now,an R73 SAM version is not going to...

Regarding the specific details of the target(whether it was a drone or a heat radiating flare or an electronic target) I don't think we will have access to all the details. But if the AAM's are repeatedly failing against a particular type of threat then obviously answers have to be found. But...

While 100% reliability and performance cannot be guaranteed for any weapon system, nonetheless the matter should be investigated. But a single test firing cannot be used to arrive at a conclusion. Important to find out out what is the failure percentage. Whether it matches the manufacturer's...

You are probably confusing the issues. The Tejas is an Indian designed and developed plane.That too a single engine one. Any crash with an unproven Kavery turbofan will affect morale and delay it's induction. Unless one is very very confident of the reliable performance of the Kavery engine...

If only the HTFE 25 had been ready a few years ago. But at least we have an Flying Test Bed for the HTFE 25.Subject to the HTFE being of suitable size and weight. One Adour engine along with one HTFE 25. Not being pessimistic but since the Jaguar is quite an old aircraft even a crash of one...

Any chance of the Afterburner version of the HTFE - 25 being installed in the Jaguar fighter. Probably the HTFE 25 engine dimensions and the air intake design needed for it have to match the space available in the Jaguar engine bay. An very ambitious plan.But such an endeavor would not only...

No,both have their own defined roles. Do we need to scramble an MWF every time an inferior quality Pak JF!7 comes near or enters Indian airspace. The Tejas Mk2 will be overkill for the JF17. The LCA mk1/mk1a was originally conceived as an replacement for the Mig21.The Air Force did not ask for...

Appreciate your moderate response. I admit it must have taken some fortitude and strength not to retaliate in invectives. I don't support any member using phrases like 'globohomos'. It should be condemned. The temptation to resort to personal level attacks and insults when one is unable to...

You speak the truth. Many guys are even comparing it to the F16 and one even to the J20. It is like asking an Flyweight boxer to take on an Heavyweight boxer(the legendary Mohammed Ali was an Heavyweight boxer) in the ring. Grossly unfair expectation that the flyweight will win against the...

I would be very happy if HAL had at least one successful foreign sale of an major weapon system. But where is the example. I agree that it could be entirely possible that faulty operation of the ALH by the Equador Air Force pilots could have been an major contributing factor to the accidents...

Well, nowadays most weapon systems are improved in successive iterations. So, even if the early Dhruvs did not have an glass cockpit or an vibration dampening system, it cannot be used as an excuse. The obvious question that arises then is - why sell an heli with defects in the first place to...

Bro, all of us will be very happy if we manage to break into the highly competitive international high performance combat aircraft market. Will be a very significant achievement. But, for God's sake don't mess up the contract. The last thing we need is a repetition of the fiasco over the...

Great. Trying to maximise the utility of the Tejas platform. An LIFT version, Growler version etc. Though originally an strategy followed by many Western arms companies, India should apply this design philosophy to almost all indigenous weapons platforms. Already many versions of the Dornier...

Good that you have put the spotlight on the deficiency. Even now as far as electronic components go, we import quite a lot. God forbid if tomorrow the US and the Western block decides to embargo India we would be in hot waters. The only readily available option is Russia. But Russia is...

Well, sourcing high technology components and systems from the US is OK as we are yet to develop indigenous alternatives. The reality is that the US is still the leader in many technologies including semiconductors. I guess Europe and Russia will be taking second place. But the current...

The information you have provided is not known to many. I trust you have verified the content. Many were under the impression that Russia was the chief source of technology for the initial Astra mk1 versions. Including the data link which is supposed to be the clone of the R77 BVR data link...

And the NLCA will get the AESA radar of the LCA mk1a and other goodies.?.

Well OK if the NLCA can only do air defence role initially. But there were reports that the undercarriage of NLCA is over designed and weight reduction is possible. If true then maybe some increase in payload capacity is possible.??.

The performance of the NLCA will be keenly watched. If it does OK with no major issues and also meets or exceeds the availability of the Mig29 K, it will be a tribute to our aerospace scientists and engineers. Designing an carrier aircraft is not an easy task. The tremendous stress on the...