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Those interested in the technical details are invited to comment here: Canards vs Levcons

I agree with most of your post except the second line: "Canard down wash energises vortice airflow on the upper wing ,which aids in low pressure creation & lift." This is not necessarily true. As a matter of fact, canards can interfere with the airflow over the wings and reduce the lift the...

500 ft is the lower limit as defined in the document. That is low altitude as far as I am concerned. I started off with paragraphs. Now it is one-liners. In future, I will consider one-worders, like "nope." :) What are my claims about LCA? Are you going to quote me verbatim or are you going...

I believe they have already tested wind-tunnel models of the LCA with canards years ago.

Thanks. I learnt something new today - BAI. Appreciated.

@soikot banerjee, are you the same person as the one below? Whoever it is, good comment, and deservedly upvoted by someone from HAL.

I don't need to provide any source because I did not make any claim yet. When I make a claim, I will back it up with a source. When I claimed altitude limits for CAS, I backed it up with a source pertinent to modern warfare that our friend Sancho terms as "outdated." Our friend Sancho is asking...

"only the misconseption that an A10 would do attacks with it's gun all the time" - Could you quote anyone who said that the A-10 would do attacks with its gun all the time? "Even in WW1 . . ." - You are fixated on the World Wars. A-10 and Sukhoi-25 were not used in the World Wars, neither was...

What exactly does this document prove? As far as I can see, it doesn't prove anything that you have said that I have quoted (except the portion that I haven't read). Where on earth is that definition? Certainly not in the document you have pasted above. Altitude/speed has no relevance, is it...

The document from USAF talks about dive angles and it is not just bombing, but also using the machine gun or Gatlin-Gun while in a pitch down orientation. The question I asked about a delta wing aircraft in a pitch down low altitude mission is because I wanted to discuss how it would handle in...

You are quite correct in what you are saying except that it has nothing to do with what I said. Read my post again and read the quotes from the USAF document, and it is about recent combat, not about WW2 as you allege. I do not advocate dive bombing when we have Precision Guided Bombs. I think...

Thank you for quoting this article. I have read it too. I don't know how thoroughly you read it. I will quote a few things from this very article you have quoted. But first, let me go back to your earlier comment. Here are my points: §1. Mirage-2000 was not used for Close Air Support. It was...

Could you please provide the details of the mission? I assume it is not classified. I wish to get details about the mission, possibly a description of flight path, speed, altitude. If it is classified, we won't know much from it.

Neither MiG-21 nor Mirage-2000 are CAS aircraft. Whether they took part in CAS or not is irrelevant. India can afford a dedicated CAS aircraft. LCA should not be used for CAS. I am aware that some countries have used the MiG-21 for CAS (the Russians use the Sukhoi-25). When did India use the...

"Loiter time is very valuable in CAS." - Agree. "Troops require ground support in frequent manner." - Agree. "The aircraft make strike runs and loiter at designated altitude before its called again for ground strikes .." Agree if the aircraft is a straight wing aircraft. Disagree if it is a...

Thank you. The rest of the information is fine. This is what the source says: This is what you said: It looks like the plane itself is not stable w.r.t. pitch. It is the Control Laws that maintain ("recover" [sic.]) stability. Static Relaxed Stability I am not very sure where the CG of...

I remember very clearly discussing this several years ago and still the Aeronautical Development Agency's publicity department (or whatever they call it) continues to repeat the same old shtick. This time, they are packaging Close Air Support as Battle Field Air Support.

Good explanation. I have one question. What is the source of this information below?

Don't count your chickens yet. What if Kaveri ultimately meets the requirements and in doing so, increases in size/length? :)

Sorry guys, I erred in my previous post. I meant to say that the landing gear was strengthened in the Naval-LCA. I got ballast weight confused with weight of the landing gear. In Naval-LCA, they had to use stronger landing gear and therefore, the landing gear was heavier. @TPFscopes Yes...