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prototype roll out will be 2027ish first flight 2028-29 ish, IOC 2030-31, induction 2032+ Bear in mind that Tejas MK2 will replace the Mirage 2000 and Mig 29 from the mid 2030s. Tejas Mk 1A is replacing the Mig 21 and Jaguar squadrons. AMCA is the new MRFA.

Please don't post nonsense here if you wish to be taken seriously.

We are going to retire the Mirage 2000, MiG 29 and Jaguar squadrons by the 2030s. We don't have the money to make 150-200 Rafale fighter jets in house with ToT and license production ($60-70 billion if initiated today i.e in 2022). All MiG 21 squadrons will be replaced by 2025. Meanwhile the...

Some dalals in Lutyens and Chandigarh will need a bottle of Black Label to sleep tonight. This confirms the death of the MRCA 2.0 project. All Mig 29 and Mirage 2000 fighter jets will be complemented by and then replaced by the Tejas MK2. Meanwhile Mig 21 gets replaced by Tejas MK1A. The Su...

Development includes flight trials, IOC, FOC, LSP, etc as well. 2027 Tejas MK 2 is handed over to IAF. 2028 first squadron is commissioned into IAF just as first Jaguar / Mig 29 squadron gets number plated.

Most military projects are critically dependent on suppliers. Unless HAL can make quartz radomes and IFR probes, we need to monitor this deal very closely.

Any information on major equity partners and money sources? Any links to US defence firms or Chinese state companies or ''businessmen'' or the like?

@Haldiram could you look into this company Advent International 's shareholders? They are buying up the UK based Cobham company which supplies in-flight refuelling probes and quartz crystal domes for Tejas MK1 and possibly MK1A and MK2 in the future. Any Saudi, Chinese or EU based companies...

1. Rafale using SPECTRA are capable of SEAD! That's what a Growler does. You get 2 for 1 in Rafale. 2. How do we differ here? You are repeating exactly what I have said previously. 3. Rafale has a huge number of India specific modifications due to which it is sure shot win for MMRCA 2.0. Even...

When you design a countermeasure, you use your own weapons as a frame of reference and then expand the threat library. Israelis use the AIM 120 C5 which Pakis also have. Thus it would be doubly effective against the aforementioned scenario faced by the MKIs. BTW Bisons don't use the jammers...

You need just 1 per strike package. Countermeasures and evasive manuevers were used.

1. Firing at DMax has nothing to do with terminal guidance. Jammer pods disabled AMRAAMs before they hit MKIs. In Rafale, SPECTRA EW can perform SEAD missions! You thus don't need to buy a Growler variant because Rafale is a 2 in 1. 2. Rafale N doesnt have foldable wings. It is also not in...

1. They lost an F 16 and got their AMRAAMs jammed by Israeli EW pods. 2. You don't use naval aircraft to gain air superiority over land bases unless you can field 50+ fighters per carrier like USN does. The jets are for A2G and if necessary A2A as interceptors and air dominance platforms. 3...

1. Pakistan couldn't react when we bombed them. 2. Indian Navy could buy the SH but that is because IAF and IN requirements are very different. One seeks air superiority over land and the other seeks carrier support to complement it's surface vessels. 3. We have 36 Rafale(s) incoming with 36...

1. SH has TWR of 1:1 and Rafale has TWR of 1.16 ~ 1.19 depending on fuel carried internally. 2. This is from the Libyan Civil War. https://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/feature/5/125860/rafale-in-combat:-“war-for-dummies”.html 3. Rafale has an RCS of 0.1 m^2 as per this research...

RCS of Rafale <<< Superhornet. Radars have the same range and ~ 1000 T/R modules. Growler is a dedicated EW platform. Rafale is almost as good as that. Libya bombing raid was conducted using SEAD by SPECTRA EW. F414 EPE doesn't provide TWR of Rafale. IN MAY buy it since it is the only...

F 18SH is not comparable to Rafale. Not even by a mile. Supercruise, super maneuverability, RCS reduction, SPECTRA EW system and many more features put it ahead of the F 18SH. Only the radars are comparable.

Source for this EPE purchase? Even USN F 18SH has not selected the F414 EPE engines for Block III upgrade.

We have a requirement of one single engine fighter to replace the MiG 21 BiS and the MiG 27 in order to maintain squadron numbers. Before the GoI took Tejas seriously, we were planning to buy F 16 or Gripen for our air force. Coincidentally, after the Pilatus scan, we are going with the HAL...