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Re: Tejas and Cold Start Doctrine We didn't want a dedicated CAS aircraft, we wanted strike aircraft. Mig-27 was much better in terms of strike.

Re: Tejas and Cold Start Doctrine For CAS you need very low speeds, not supersonic. Read up on A-10 and Su-25.

Re: Tejas and Cold Start Doctrine The Jaguar is capable of being integrated with Aim-120C. Let's just buy some and then call Jaguar air superiority aircraft.

Re: Tejas and Cold Start Doctrine We paid for the Mig-27s with rice and wheat. We couldn't afford more $$ for Jaguars. Mig-21 line was dying out by then, so it was cheaper to switch to Mig-27 production. We bought a bunch of Mig-23s also.

The electronics will be at par for both tanks. This will be quite consistent in the future also. Yes, that's how it goes. The oldest T-90 will be two decades old by 2020. This could be around the time when the first Mk2 regiment is set up. The Rafale deal is almost done. The 63 options...

T-90S was developed and ready in 1998. Arjun was fully developed and ready only in 2008. It still had to clear winter trials which it did in 2010. Arjun being superior to T-90 is only because T-90 was ready in 1998 and will undergo upgrades soon, to bring it to Arjun Mk2 level or even go beyond...

Try Russia, Israel and France. Google MF-STAR. Not all of them. But many, yes. Many of them from JVs with foreign companies. Indigenization of the pressure gauge is not a big deal. Barak-8 is mostly Israeli. Google MF-STAR. Brahmos is also a JV with Russia having done most of the...

Russia has never imposed sanctions on us and France had delayed deliveries and support due to a war, but even they haven't sanctioned us. Majority of our stuff comes from Russia, France and Israel. So, no threat of sanctions even if we test and use nuclear weapons. Wikipedia has a lot of...

If you read the article clearly it says 85% indigenization in 15 years. And guess how many of that is foreign JVs? There is a long time to go. And the remaining 15% are still critical systems. By then LCA and Arjun will also achieve similar figures, if not higher. MKI and T-90 are already...

By that standards, pretty much everything that IAF and IA induct are made in India as well. OFB makes T-90, artillery and guns. HAL makes MKI. They are plain wrong. And they will receive a proper answer anyway. How so? Everything I say here is what IAF, IN and IA are doing. Are they...

Look up where the engines, weapons and electronics are coming from. Even wiki has that info.

Live in your delusion. Bureaucracy sits on the file, that's what it means when we say the ministry is sitting on files. Basically, both are sitting on the file. That's why the PIL aims for a hassle free induction.

No. Only the Kamorta class has such high level of indigenization. Both Arjun and LCA are more indigenous than most of the IN capital ships. Most of the radar, engine, weapons systems and electronics are still imported for IN ships. Designing and building the hull is the easiest part...

All of the navy's critical parts are imported. Even they acknowledge that it is a problem that they cannot solve in the short term, and that it will take decades to fix it, maybe longer.

It's "just" a PIL. And yes, we don't have any say in what they want. They are the professionals after all. The PIL does not want a plan of action formulated, they want to know what's the plan of action already taken. The answers are all there, especially if GoI is willing to take the blame...

It's just a PIL, they will ask anything. I don't know what you are hung about about? Most of this is mainly directed towards the navy because the resignation of a chief is a big deal. They are the ones who are still using very old subs and procured second hand systems, (Trenton and Gorky)...

Very highly likely to be fake news.

They want to allow the Service Chiefs to talk to the court about non-performance of MoD's procedures in the acquisition process. They want the import and indigenous acquisition procedures overhauled to make it hassle-free so that the armed forces can procure weapons in time instead of using...

@Singh Please check my post after #271.

Most of the stuff I type you won't find it from just one source, you will need multiple sources talking about multiple things. I consolidate all of that in a single post. Else start with typing "AL-31 engine contract J-10 China" and stuff like that.