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Your query already answered earlier ;)

2-3 months = June 2015 at least ;) take whatever date is declared, deduce the time period, multiply by a factor of 2 if program is in initial stages and 4 if in final stages and you get the actual date :)

"Abandon hope all ye who enter here" :- Motto of the Indian Military Industrial complex.

No 'sir' please. No need to whinge on one single aspect of the system without understanding the implications and requirements from which it arose. I am going to be concise this time around. -It's a light helicopter. -Helicopter borne guns are effectively useless against anything other than soft...

It's more than enough. Any airborne cannon is either useless against modern armour or using it requires low passes which puts the platform at risk. 300 to 400 rounds is more than enough in anti personal and fire support role. For other roles it is dead weight which affects high altitude...

Gatling guns are heavy, too much recoil and vibration for a light helicopter which adversely affects the accuracy, consumes too much ammo. The A-10 was designed around that gun. It was meant to attack hordes of Soviet armor that threatened to run over west germany. Guns are not the preferred...

I agree, that job should have been done by your parents. I have that report open in front of me, it sits happily in my notes on my hard drive, quoting from that report :- http://www.cag.gov.in/html/reports/commercial/2010-11_10PA/chap3.pdf Strange ways of DFI, last night I was accused...

Patently incorrect. The quote was with respect to raw materials and not sub components. Big difference. For eg there were no indigenous suppliers of carbon fiber that can match the quality of stuff supplied by Alenia until very recently. Who the hell cares, you can head back to that forum...

Your expert opinions have been registered and forwarded to HAL's rotorcraft division. The technical critique forced an urgent design review and the design team have decided to cut out the bloated parts. Here's a sneek peak to what LCH TD-3 will look like.

Not much info available, except that such a suite in in the works. It should be equal or better than the self defence suite that DARE has proposed for Mi-17V5 with laser warning, missile warning, ESM sensors. It might possibly have some improvements keeping in mind the SEAD/DEAD roles the LCH...