1000 arjun or 500 lca will surely have a good impact on the force moral and just the opposite on enemy.
No it won't. The enemy thinks practically. 1000 Arjun and 500 LCA would mean 1000 tanks inferior to the T-90 and 500 aircraft inferior to the F-16/J-11. The enemy will be happy. The current Arjun regiments are not very happy nowadays due to quality issues and lack of supplies.
The users will only be happy with advanced systems which work, not ornaments.
just imagine current fleet with around 300-400 serving tejas. enough to shut mouth of all.
Rather it would only shut the mouths of Pakis on other forums. Nothing to do with national security, all to do with chest beating by kids.
~300 MKIs followed by ~300 PAKFA/FGFA is the way to go.
What do you think the enemy will be intimidated by, 600 heavy class fighters or 600 LCAs? The same with 1000 Arjuns or 1000 FMBTs?
( dont reject tejas even the koreans are now thinking of replacing f-4 with something desi and that too be pitted against china back communist korea. in that way our tejas is pretty good)
No they are not. The Koreans are not even sure about the FA-50 let alone an indigenous replacement for the F-4s. They have already announced a tender for new aircraft. F-35/F-15SE is going to win it and will replace the F-4s. Quite like LCA the Koreans have placed orders for only 20 FA-50s. The FA-50s will replace F-5s. Further orders are yet to come.
Indonesia is not yet willing to start work on KF-X, so this plan is on the back burner too. Eventually someday they will build it, and these will replace the light F-5s, not the F-4s. But not right now. Turkey is mostly not interested either because Korea is not looking at equal partners like the Russia/India PAKFA. So, while S Korea is ready to invest 60%, Indonesia can manage only 20%. So, they don't even have a development partner as of today which can cover the other 20%.
The Koreans want 120 aircraft for $13Billion, which is pretty much the same as how much the LCA or Gripen cost for that many aircraft. Funny that. They want an aircraft superior to EF/Rafale and inferior to F-35 at the same cost as the LCA.
The supposed numbers required for KF-X is 200-250 aircraft in order to make it cheap enough for export. So, with Korea asking for 120 followed by Indonesia looking at 50, that will make 170. They still need a partner willing to take another 50 to make the program a no profit/loss venture. And they say that should be less than $50Million a copy. So, they want an aircraft superior to EF/Rafale and still cost as much as the LCA.
