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Russia has the design which it wants to produce as the single engine fifth gen fighter, for a long time. Eearlier the Mig Corporation was to head the project, but now it seems Sukhoi design bureau have been given the job. They just needs funds. So, they are trying to find partners for the last...

Russian's have sold Al-31 engines as well as S-400 missiles to China in limited number. China buys these stuff in limited numbers only to reverse engineer them into indegeneous products. Also there is no guarantee that that even if we invest in PAK-FA, in the future Russia won't sell it to China...

Work on crystal blade technology in China is going on for last 2 decades. They are not able to perfect it even and hence need technology infusion from reverse engineering al31 engines which they have ordered in limited numbers from Russia. But the point is they have not invested in pak fa but...

Still they didn't invest in PAK-FA programme and decided to invest in their own programes. The Al 31 engines are purchased by them in limited numbers only to reverse engineer them into the WS series and for initial prototypes of J-20. It won't be long before they perfect the WS-15 given the...

In the mid 2000s FGFA was offered to China. Though China needed the engine tech of AL-31 series badly to make its indegeneous WS-15 work but they refused. 10 years down the line they are flying two fifth gen fighters j-20 and j-31. After China's refusal Russia offered it to us but by the time we...

Going through the level of your post you seem to be a bigger donkey than I thought. Also having a Phd is gaining research experience and about subject knowledge. India needs more Phd to improve research and innovations and hence GOI is spending huge sums of money by increasing seats to attract...

Mig 1.44 and Su 47 are relics of the 90s are cannot be classified as stealthy 5th generation platform by today's standard, even PAK-FA barely qualifies that standard according to Russians though IAF disagrees. FGFA tech transfer will not happen even if we invest in R&D of PAK-FA whose R&D phase...

Both PAK-FA and F-35 are not suitable for us. We need to invest more in the FSED phase of AMCA whose design is already frozen.

Being an electronics engineer myself pursuing my doctorate form an IIT, I don't need certificate from a brain dead donkey like you, who don't understand a thing about engineering or science and flashes fake credentials and degrees. If you have you ever gone through any scientific publications...

If you follow the publications of our own aeronautical engineering students from IIT/IISCs/NIT's you will find 100s of types of drones and even stealthy ones being developed and tested. Hence this type of projects is nothing new to us. As much as you would want to beleive otherwise but today we...

Don't post stupid quotes just to belittle the performance of our indegeneous Tejas or AMCA aircraft. As far as Tejas is concerned it has almost reached FOC standard and is much ahead as a 4++ generation fighters than those obsolete 50-60 years old F-16 and Gripen single engine fighters whose...

My personal opinion is that we should drop the FGFA partnership with Russia and invest money in a indegeneous design of a heavy class fighter. Suggestion is that we could develop the 3B01 model of AMCA into our desi heavy class FGFA (which is not selected for AMCA) but a lot of aerodynamic...

Don't misquote me. I said IIT/IISC collaborating with gtre on thrust vectoring and engine nozzle technology. If you have any experience on working on a sponsored project in IIT then you will know DRDO sponsors many project to increase it knowledge and skill base but it doesn't mean that IIT will...

@Steven Rogers NAL Saras is a mere 4-5 ton aircraft. It 's prototype is powered by P&w turboprop engine 1200 hp class. Since you didn't read the document clearly let me post the specification of engine to tested (page 16 of the pdf): Also for engine nozzle design and thrust vectoring...

If you have time read the full doccument : It clearly says 130KN engine project with multi axis TVC is initiated. It will be for AMCA as well as Sukhoi mid life upgrade. Also twitted by Mannu Pubby eminent journalist. All this is disscussed in Kaveri thread in DFI in 2016 itself. Go there and...

Safran tie up is for kaveri engine only and it will enhance the thrust to 110 kn . For AMCA gtre has initiated development of 130 kn(wet)/90 km(dry) engine with multi axis thrust vector control which is unrelated to kaveri and will be of all 31 class and will also power su 30mki during its mid...

Its better to start by investing in our own projects rather than Russian project which clearly has no takers in IAF. What Russia wants is a perpetual cash cow. Before India China was offered this project as JV and it wisely rejected it a decade ago. People like you said the same thing about...

Question was not about technical competency but about IP issues associated with PAK FA. If HAL is technically incompetent then it is better to pour money on an indegeneous design like AMCA than a semi stealth fighter like PAK FA whose design phase is already over and production is to begin. IAF...

HAL is the primary integrator of most of aircraft in IAF inventory. Besides HAL has its own R&D divisons. ADA +HAL is the best aircraft design agency in India. Also HAL plans to manufacture FGFA in Nashik plant.

FGFA can be developed in India itself without Russian involvement in case we decide to formally pull out from the JV. The Project (Advanced Heavy Combat Aircraft AHCA) can be pursued as follows: Airframe : ADA+ HAL Avionics: DARE+BEL RADAR : UTTAM AESA derivative Engine : Kaveri derivative or...