Search results

No, I don't have a source. Normally I don't keep internet sources on me all the time. I only save very specific content or information that I cannot easily commit to memory. In this case the relevance of the information, it is irrelevant info. If I come across a quote I will post it. And it...

The Jaguar crash rate is quite acceptable, especially looking at the numbers operational and the kind of environment they operate in. At first we leased 18 Jaguars and we returned 9 back to the UK while retaining the other 9. Then we placed orders for 168 more in different tranches from 1979...

Look man. I will tell this again. Ersakthivel is an idiot. The part of his post which you quoted is pretty much nonsense. Our total Mirage-2000 purchases since the 80s was 59 aircraft. Today we have 49. 10 have crashed over the last 30 years. In 1982 we purchased 40 and 9 more in 1986. We...

The minute the aircraft hits the 120 mark, it is handling far more stress than a ship. The minute the aircraft takes off the stress on the airframe is so high that there is not a single ship in the world that compares to it. An aircraft should be so well designed that its wing can be ripped off...

Delhi Class destroyer Diesel Engine - Ukranian Gas Turbine - Ukranian Air Search radar - Ukranian Surface search radar - Dutch Navigation/SATCOM - Ukranian LF Sonar - French Only 2 other Sonars are Indian. Weapons Switchblade - Russian Torpedo launchers - Russian Barak - Israeli...

Most of our aircraft are HAL built aircraft. Only Mig-29 and Mirage-2000 were fully imported.

Twinblade, Sob worked in HAL for quite a number of years. He is right. HAL could have been more serious with their project. We are seeing only one side of the story written by a very biased author and you know the latter is true.

I know about both the gun and the material. The complexity difference between a ship and a tank is that the designers have much higher levels of sophistication due to the small size of the tank. The smaller the design, the higher the complexity in designing such a system, the very reason why...

At the same level, a fighter and a tank are much more complex to design than a ship. The threshold of operation is much higher. A tank must survive a 120mm gun hit from point blank range, a ship doesn't have such a high requirement. And a fighter needs to be made with materials with the...

Sir, let's be realisitc. Most of the core technologies required by IA and IAF are much more complex than what IN requires. Even though a nuke sub is complex, the design itself utilizes foreign help based on old technology. We can say Arihant is like the Mirage-2000 of the Navy while the IAF...

That's the thing. Ship design is far far easier compared to aircraft or tank designs. Just look at how many ship designs and projects exist as compared to aircraft or tank projects. As of today there are dozens of ships designs available. Even the smallest countries have a ship design bureau. IN...

IN's requirements are nowhere as complex as IAF's. Apart from that, most of the core IN systems are imported. Engine, weapons, sensors, helicopter. What else is left apart from that? Hull is the easiest to make. Take the nuke sub, it is probably a decade or two behind the Russians, Americans...

That is what GTRE means by JV. Indian funded, foreign made Indian product. The foreign core will be mated to some Indian made items. Only that's extra. Saturn, P&W, GE, Salyut, EADS, Snecma and a few others are competing in a GTRE tender for the JV. Saturn has already done what you...

The Tejas Debate Continues | TKS' Tales This says the same. Apprehensions about the FBW were high. The air force preferred a more conservative approach of a hybrid system with French collaboration wile the DRDO opted for a more daring quad digital path with American help. The French entities...

Sir, I can guarantee that the LCA's specs were unilaterally upped by ADA. This was repeated by P Rajkumar also. He pointed out that the specs for LCA were very basic in the 1985 RFP equivalent to the early models of JF-17. The RFP did not even have digital FBW, meaning IAF never asked for it...

This isn't true. The LCA specifications were unilaterally upped by ADA on their own. For eg, IAF never asked for digital FBW, ADA decided to put it. I don't know the specifics but even the radar specs are not the same as what IAF asked for. It was much more simpler. From what I know IAF never...

The British asked for money to design the engine for Marut. It was GoI which refused. It was much later that GoI decided to join the Egyptian engine program. Anyway, with respect to the trainer, it is everybody's fault.