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It doesn't matter how I think. It matters what Indian generals thinks about "substandard Chinese weapon". Obviously and unfortunately they don't agree with you.

May its performance is only on the same level of PESA, but the size of this kind of AESA is far smaller than PESA. So, for those 3rd world countries' old 3rd generation fighter jets which only have small internal size, this AESA can fit, PESA can't! Not every developing country wants to match...

1. Air cool AESA radar - KLJ-7A is only one of the several Chinese AESA radar. It was specifically developed for export fighter jet. So far, none evidence shows that Chinese is using it on her own military fighter jet. 2. The advantage of this kind of radar is "will help offset the internal...

Most of the times (>90%), that is the designer or planner's fault. It is the basic rule of designing: As a designer, the manufacturing departments' capabilities of mass production must be part of your consideration; As a planner, you need to make sure every sub-system developer to reach mass...

2025 first flight, 2028 full introduction. Only 3-4 years test flight/development, very ambitious and optimistic: adding the canard is a huge change.

Be aware of the fact: it took Russians 5-6 years to add canard on their Su-30 after their Su-30 entered service even though they already had other plane with canard designing experience before that. Considering Indian scientists had much less experience in aerodynamic design comparing to...

Oh, yes, a strong Indian navy will come to South China Sea and leave Indian Ocean to US navy to look after. Sorry, Indian generals are not stupid, neither are Americans. Sure, Indian army already gets some kind of alien technologies which will provide a stable logistics support over Himalayas...

Steal the whole production line from Soviet? You are funny! You don't need to steal because Russians already gave you everything you need to produce.

No, completely different process. Unlike India, Chinese has to produce their Mig-21 without Russian assistance, which means Chinese scientists had to figure out every manufacturing detail, from the basic screw to manufacturing equipment, from aerodynamic design to electronic system. It took them...

Computer model is only simulating based on assumption that everything is developed as project. But we all know there are lots of uncertainties in such a complicated project. Some new components can't be developed in time. Some new materials have negative effects on other part in the actual...

All these are just design targets, no one can guarantee how much will be achieved. For a new player in fighter jet industry like India, it won't be a surprise if some or most of targets are failed. Even US failed some of her targets in F-35 project.

No, the Chinese version of RD-93 is WS-13 which was developed as back up for WS-19 for J-35 and RD-33 for JF-17. But It has never been mass-produced as: 1. WS-19's R&D seems to go smoothly; 2. Russia has no intention to stop exporting RD-33 to Pakistan; 3. Pakistan refuse to be the test bed for...

No, manage the risk is not just avoiding the risk. You need estimate the possibility of the bad things happen, when it will happen, and what is the consequence, is there any way that you can reduce the impact. If we take US engine as an example. The thing is that how possible US will impose a...

Well, every weapons or high-tech equipment imported has the risk of being banned in the future when you have problems with supplying countries. You need to manage that risk not avoid that risk completely! Even if you rely on indigenous products, there is some components are being imported or...

It is those pilots who will sit their asses on the engines not those politicians. Until the indigenous engine is matured, no one wants to risk his life with it.

Yah, keyboard warriors know much more than those spent their whole life on wars. If they are wrong, they will lose their job, their pension, even their lives. If you are wrong, you will lose......nothing!

Not that simple. It is certainly good to have more competitors in the market. But it is wishful thinking that private companies will outperform the state-own companies in this area in short time. If you look around the world, you will find that: except those private companies with long history...

No, different issue. Dassault's production line has the capacity of 36 Rafale annually at full rate. The lack of order force them to keep low production speed. If there is a war tomorrow, they can expand the production over 100 per year in short period of notice. HAL, on the other hand, is...

Before laughing at others, please check the fact first. The first Rafale's tech demonstrator was rolled out in Dec-1985 and took its maiden flight in Jul-1986. The formal production started in 1992, then it was suspended in 1994 due to the budget cut of the end of cold war and resumed in 1997...

Not sure if that will work out. US managed to do that on their F-22, but even their press machine was 40,000 ton (if my memory is right) capacity. And don't forget, their metal and wielding technologies have been far ahead of anyone else.