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Lol. No chance. Only 4.5 gen fighters IAF will buy from now on is LCA, MKI and Rafale. There’s no room for any other type.

Actually this is significant news. This order is for next batch of SPs (SP21-40) that will be FOC standard. This means production won’t be stalled (earlier some people mistakingly stated that production wouldn’t commence and sub-assembly orders wouldn’t be ordered until after FOC had been...

Smokescreen makes it sound like there is something nefarious about the intentions. Instead it is a simple procedural affair that bean counters insist upon and politicians are happy to oblige to cover their a$$es. You cannot buy 100+ fighter jets with localised production, ToT, after sales...

Anyone tracking CAATSA/S400 drama? US Democrats now pushing too end any possible hope for CAATSA wavier for India and they will be getting back control of the Congress in November. This is the end for F-16/18/35 hopes in India and likely Gripen also (F414 engine and other parts). LCA...

No, no and no again. 1) trainer issue is settled 2)next batch (FOC standard Sp-21 onwards) is already on the jig so there isn’t the issue that without FOC production will halt, HAL has fairly said early FOC SPs can have a few confessions. By the way, the idea of concurrency (beginning...

Sadly this is the thinking of the majority of the defence brass, IN is an exception in SOME cases. They are so aclimitised to importing everything and basing their requirements on brochures given to them by foreign OEMs. There is VERY little interaction at an institutional level between the...

The facilities that IAF have created at Sular are amazing, shows they are committed to the LCA, I just wish that they weren’t so “spoilt”, should’ve ordered 60-80 LCA Mk.1 from The outset then asked for 83 MK.1A, his would keep production ticking over in the interim. Production is a real...

March was when the last SP was delivered, this isn’t good enough, they said they would attain 12/year this FY, HAL has no more excuses- the issue with the second production line that lead to delays with SP-5 won’t be repeated.

Some radio altimiters and smart displays? Wow........

Guess HAL needs certainty and thus has gone for this global tender. Best case scenario UTTAM completes testing by Jan 2019 but ramping up production and integrating it with LCA’s weapons is a whole other challenge, the off the shelf procurement was the most logical option considering Mk1A is...

Take it easy bro, no one is trying to sabotage UTTAM, it was always meant to come for Mk2, a few fanboys May have gotten ahead of themselves and prophesied that the Mk1A would be the recipient of the Uttam but that was always an impossibility considering UTTAM will only enter testing this year...

Stop throwing these lies out there bro, F-35 is not and will never be (without a HUGE shift in Indian alignment) on the table, let us not even entertain such fantasies it just muddies the waters and creates unrealistic standards.

F*ck yeah bro! Go make us proud :)

Is it Type rating time bro? .....

Any ideas why the SPJ can’t be placed at station g? Weight limits?

Irrelevant now. Under new SPM private sector JVs are encouraged, there’s no insistence to work with HAL. And there already is a Dassault Reliance JV- DRAL and it is the ONLY JV that is actually doing work TODAY that actually has any facilities right now, all others (TASL/LM...

You realise this is true for EVERY OEM, why single out Dassault? In fact US OEMs are even more restricted as by LAW they cannot even sell sensitive American tech to any country without official sanction from US CONGRESS. Rafale is the only affordable choice because of the sunk costs already...

1) seriously doubt Americans will allow AIM-120C to be integrated with Chinese radar 2) LCA BVRAAM (DERBY MK.3/I-DERBY ER) > AIM-120C

That’s far too ambitious, where didn’t this hope come from bro? HAL never promised to deliver so many this month, they said 3 in March and that has been achieved.

Cannot count on export orders, and this is mostly because India’s completely flawed/non-existent arms export policy. Only recently have even modest products been offered to friendly nations and that too in a rather passive manner. Is India going to be able to compete in the notoriously...