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Stupid logic they’ve already demonstrated they can deliver~30 ALH/year and that’s from their existing (maxxed out) production line in BLR, Tumkur is a massive greenfield facility that they can scale up as required and is designated purely for helicopter manufacturing the only thing missing...

Rawat talked about that, not sure what the current one is interested in

total package cost (training, spares, simulators, weapons etc) which I’m 90% sure will include a PBN also 36 Rafales cost ~$8bn USD and this was in 2015 prices (maybe 30% more now) but I don’t think $15bn is the price for 100 but 83+100

The reporting in this is very vague and doesn’t really explain the specifics but the ANI report says IAF is the ‘lead agency’ for the 156 but it’s a joint purchase with the majority going to the IA. Not sure why the IAF is the lead agency when the IA is getting the larger chunk but alas Indian...

Stupid logic. Production is always lagging, if you wait until you have all 83 in service the production line will long since be idle

3-4 years before a contract at best

Where’s the AON? RFI? RFQ? CCS? CAS can say whatever he likes, these guys all make a lot of noise. Contracts are all that matter

https://x.com/ani_digital/status/1707719760111153494?s=46&t=8QPJecNQmmoeL0BRyMQdjg These jokers are just making things up now. After 100 more LCA MK1A and 6 more NETRA MK1, this same guy comes out with this? Even this article makes no sense, the numbers are totally different to the...

They’ll drag tanks out another 2-3 years (enough time to get their gold plated AH-64s) then declare attack helicopters obsolete and they are issuing RFIs for UCAVs there’s no way more than ~40 LCH are ever in service (I hope I’m wrong)

It is used on the LUH

Drag reduction, potentially acoustics too

If they make any such size order in the next 5 years I’ll be shocked

What delays to LCH? They are meeting their production timelines for the LSP batch, the issue for HAL is that they still haven’t received any orders beyond 10+5 so within the next few months the entire line will be idle Same situation for LUH some serious jokers inside MoD and the armed forces...

It’s a collective failure for sure (why CCS has yet to sanction AMCA and IMRH is cannot understand) but when you see the nonsense of not ordering LCH until 5 years after it has entered production or committing to only 6+6 LUH when your requirements are 400++ when all they want to talk about is...

1) a$$ backwards. Scale comes FROM orders. You can’t ask them to scale first then orders will come (actually the geniuses inside Indian armed force HQs do expect this) 2) what product out there does LCH’s mission better than LCH? All of the products I mentioned have passed the various stages of...

I can’t even get my head around what a mess the Indian military is making of this. A few years back one could have rightly blamed the Indian developers but today the bottleneck is simply not ordering what is tested and ready for production, it’s actually mind blowing that they have systems like...

Peacetime mindset. They’d rather wait for the final product than be ready in the interim because ‘chances are’ they won’t need them. Indian leadership has got too used to border clashes and has forgotten that a military should be ready 24/7 for an all out war. The good/bad thing is China will...

Pars-3 was always being spoken about as the likely winner But these things are from so long ago that it’s basically irrelevant https://www.mbda-systems.com/press-releases/mbdas-pars-3-lr-short-listed-for-indian-army-procurement-project/

The print never misses an opportunity to talk down india but in this instance they are spot on No self protection suite whatsoever- according to HAL CMD this is being tested (IADS-3 from saab) and will be ready for LCH certification in the next few months (not sure if they’ll fit this onto LSP...