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@satish thanks,was just going to investigate high alpha of gripen. Do u know how much alpha the f-35 can pull off? @vijay how would u like it if u were strapped in rear seat of mk-2 first fligt with a jammed election seat, with your idea of engine with no foreign object damage, unmodified power...

@satish thanks,was just going to investigate high alpha of gripen. Do u know how much alpha the f-35 can pull off?

Majority of members may not agree with me, then Again I've found myself on the wrong side of majority plenty of times still won out in the end. I completely believe that what IAF wan't is Tejas mk-2 to go toe to toe with pakistani f-16 as part of the rapid reaction force now comprising of...

@vijay can you read both my previous two post and give a comment? I guess I've attributed your concerns to that 2016 time line as well. Fact is if there was adequate mk-1 orders to tide down till mk-2 enters production, there would have been no problems. honestly mk-1 is a full fledged aircraft...

Contd post 1285 Unfortunately, the 1962 war was a brutal wake up call to the politico elite and the pandora's box of imports was opened, with the soviet easy monetary policy our coffers could take it. India till the rest of the cold war remained a soviet client in the security arena, always warm...

@p2prada Your arguements revolve around the fact that ADA is unproven and Tejas is being shown down IAF a**. Lets take a breather. If only proven people can do better, there would have been no Einstein, our innovation on the physical world would have been confined to Newton. If we take your MBA...

Not only selex but all the others failed to deposit funds required for the co-development venture. One thing thats necessary is source codes for the radar, which as part of the co-development will be Indian. That way atleast we escape this mmrca fiasco of radar tot upto the level permitted by...

Flying in the face of facts The operational flight of the Tejas, the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft, has been met with muted applause. New Delhi flags off the same 'Made in India' piece of defence equipment again and again. Every defence minister has declared the Arjun tank ready for...

All IAF wants in fourth generation and fifth generation stamps given my foreign vendors to their respective aircrafts, wait till u see a double decker grippen in an Indian medium fifth generation fighter aircraft competition. But HAL giving it could be unpalatable for Ac Naik. aren't we over the...

Yeah u support mmrca because our neighbours are nuclear armed. Tell me which would u pick to deal when theatened by paki of crossing nuclear threshold, get Nuclear bombs of India loaded on all triads or reconfigure a bunch of 126 aircraft to perform a strike mission on nuclear installations...

For one thing, LCA tejas will be 3000 % more indigenous than any transfer of technology will bring to the country. The reason is unlike the deep licence of su-30 mki, the shallow technology of mmrca and all the other licencing that had been done by HAL, in this programme the raw materials...

The Indian government could fund a further development of f404 with technologies from f414 upgrades into developing a 90 kn engine perhaps called IN40 exclusively for us and induct 80 more mk-1 till 2016, but it will be unacceptable to IAF, they don't wan't any practical solutions. Namma oor...

@ vijay lol, I too would like to take the mk-2 off in 12 months, may be even less. But the first lot of eight engines will only be delivered by early 2014, it should take atleast bench testing of x000 hours and fly by wire flight testing of 200 hours on atleast two- four aircrafts to certify it...

If IAF was just looking for a 4th generation stamp, ADA should have taken a mig-21 and made it a technology demonstrator for fly by wire, then ask HAL to produce fly by wire 4th gen mig-21 2000 to repace 400+ 3rd generation mig-21 in service, 4th generation mig-21 replacing 3rd generation ones...

ADA is funded for research only and thus cannot do the advertising. HAL is the profittering agency involved in production with some fiscal autonomy, But it has hardly any words to write about Tejas in its website, let alone make promos. Besides to market good promos, u need to hire professions...

Why r u so desperate to dis-credit Tejas programme? The development may have beened seeded in 1983, but the conditions were not completely favourable for Indian programmes, we were very much confident of soviet protecton. The requirements of Engine itself was frmed only in 1985, so kaveri...

If u got to take a leak u r welcomed to, u don't need to wait till IOC of Tejas. If MMRCA decision is made, and an aircraft enters service. those aircraft flying in face of chinese Su-35 and J-20 will be the late previous century combat aircraft. If IAF can shed its ego and induct Tejas with...

U really think calling for order of 126 planes is going to turn around our security environment in a jiffy, there are lot more factors than that. see my quoting of the FONA in my previous quote. I like to post a previous post of mine, since this has come to MMRCA VS LCA IAF to achieve 34...

"LCA not what we want" should not be taken in the context of "LCA not what we need or require". There are lot of stuff like the F-22 the USAF and the A-12 the US navy would like to have. But their tactical utility matters more when opting for a platform than fancy planes sitting on decks. Given...

Looks like the IAF chief is finally trying to come to terms with the real world. A good jesture would be clearing the financial resources for 20 tejas mk-1 long pending on his desk. I hope he would attend the inaguration of IOC, even if he has lot of negative stuff to say, he can vet it out...