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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    This country has only seen HAL. There is no empirical evidence of what private sector can do in building a fighter. However results are encouraging wherever private sector is involved in defence projects. Nothing wrong in trying private sector. Let there be two lines - one in HAL and other in...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    There is no point of having Tejas without the numbers as low numbers Tejas will be simply useless in war. It is not a super-duper fighter. Its benefit lies in filling numerous frontline airbases and act as a tripwire.
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    I hold to my point - HAL has avoided setting up LCA Tejas production facilities for far too long. The CAG report says that clearly. I have said before that the BULK of machines needed are generic and ARE NOT SPECIFIC TO TEJAS. Means HAL does not have capability for other "modern" fighter as...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    Paranoia with private companies will have to go like so many other things that Indians have given up. India was always a capitalist society and will always be. The few decades of socialism will be remembered like a bad dream.
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    There is no way HAL will meet Tejas numbers. The problem with HAL is clear - it was forced into screw driver tech too long. Its manpower is accustomed to easy life. Productivity at HAL is EXTREMELY LOW. Unless Mr Parikkar knows magic or has some supernatural powers, there is no way enough Tejas...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    @Khagesh, the realistic situation is that LCA FOC needs to be completed, and HAL capacity needs to be augmented. The LCA will roll out but the number is too small to make any decent impact on IAF. This unfortunately creates a situation which requires imports. Let us see how Mr Parikkar manages...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    I repeat that the biggest misfortune of tejas is HAL. HAL is only interested in screw driver work. If a private company was involved from the start, this project would have succeeded with few squadrons flying already.
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    @ersakhtivel, How many Tejas fighters HAL has built already? You keep on repeating 40 order. You forget that all aircrafts (and not only SP series) are paid by MOD. When HAL builds a TD or LSP, that is not built for free. Even the number of mark-1 order is 46 including navy. Plus the prototypes...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    Not sure why people on this forum have so much difficulty seeing the simple things. If a component comes from foreign sources, it does not need machinery at HAL. It only needs a lead time - that is order must be placed well in time before the part is needed. This has been done for the engines...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    @ersakthivel, there is a fear that HAL is intentionally delaying LCA production. There may be n number of factors behind it, but that is for sleuths like you. Your argument about investment simply does not cut it. The government is already footing the bill for the entire development program...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    If HAL is unable to build Tejas, then only options left is government can bring in a private sector player. If HAL opposes a private player (as the case is perhaps) then next option is to bring in a foreign product to be built by a private player. Of course the correct approach should have been...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    The financial year in India runs from April to March. When I say 14-15, it means April 14 to March 15. Your ignorance about financial years tells me you are NOT a government type. This makes any information from you a bit suspect. The IAF order of 40 does not mean that 40 has to be delivered in...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    Pulkit, HAL has to submit projected production figures to MOD. For LCA, 2 were projected in 14-15 and 6 in 15-16. If HAL actually delivers 1 in 14-15 and 4 in 15-16; that is a slippage of 3 units already. The delays add up. The issue is when IAF will be able to form the first squadron...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    @ersakthivel, I believe that IAF no longer wants Mig-21 replacement. The needs have changed. There are AWACS with both adversaries. The low level advantage is gone. BVR capability has become common place. Now is the time for brute force - big radar, long range weapons etc. This is the reason...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    The question is why Parikkar will move all the way against the wishes of IAF? More likely Parikkar will narrow the ground between IAF and ADA by pushing both to compromise. The minister is already pushing HAL to deliver Tejas numbers. I have fears though that there are some people in HAL who are...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    @pmaitra, funds are NOT a problem for Tejas. Nobody is blocking funds anymore. The reasons now could be institutional sloth, people working at cross-purposes, foreign influence etc. The minister has said clearly that he wants Tejas made as fast as possible. I do not know what more is to be said.
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    It is clear that HAL has not ramped up Tejas production to 8 per year as promised. At 8 per year, HAL was supposed to deliver 20 IOC standard fighters within 2014-2017 timeframe. Only one SP1 has been delivered at close of 16 months. It is unclear what progress has been made by HAL lately, so...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    Posters must not allude capabilities to Tejas which it does not possess. No point playing the same game as was played with Rafael earlier. For example p2prada said rafale RCS as .01 while it is more like 1 in reality. Tejas is a small point defence fighter and light bomber, its benefit is in...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    The Tejas delivery at current rate will doom the project. The benefit of small single engine point defence fighter is in numbers, else bigger 2 engine longer range fighters are much better. If number of squadrons are lower than IAF should logically go for bigger planes with higher range. Spread...
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    ADA Tejas (LCA) News and Discussions

    I agree with you that shutting down HF-24 was a mistake. But it happened during cold war when both USSR and USA were developing military planes very quickly and Indian technology would have trailed badly without big commitment from GOI. Today situation has changed. Indian military budget is...
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