Yes ADA fooled all about replacing Mig-21s and killed many pilots but who fooled IAF about BFT? Why did not IAF considered replacing their BFTs with ejection seat equipped BFTs long before HPT-32s started showing signs of stalling?
Right, and you think that is done overnight. It isn't a plastic chair that you replace once it breaks.
IAF took a better method by installing a crash recovery chute to save the whole aircraft and is used was a stop gap measure.
Btw, how many do you think crashed? Out of 75 procured, 17 have crashed. While it is high, it is not as high as you think that it requires immediate replacement. It has been in service since 1984 afterall.
Despite the problems on Deepak, do you think HAL would have allowed the IAF to go for a basic trainer when it was being flight tested or undergoing production. If there is an equivalent available, the armed forces aren't allowed import of the same by law unless the DPSU allows imports due to delays. It is by law. Heck it is far easier to bring down Govts in India than force DRDO to allow imports.
What do you think is happening now? Where is the follow on BFT to the Deepak from HAL? Funny why IAF is importing now...
And despite having M-MRCA process on roll since past 7 years why is that IAF is yet to induct single fighter?
2007 to 2012 is not 7, it is 5. IAF did send out RFPs in 2004 and that was withdrawn upon the govt's insistence and not done by IAF. Then again, the flight tests conducted by IAF was the most comprehensive tests in a tender ever carried out. So, are you blaming the IAF to be overly professional? 6 years to validate and sign on the dotted line is a big deal, especially with our bureaucracy.
Actually the RFP was sent in Aug 2007 and the companies responded only in April 2008. So, taking April 2008 to Jan 2012, when the preferred bidder was chosen the actual time elapsed was just 45 months. That's 3.75 years. Even better, the time IAF took to send out the RFP, test the aircraft and select the two best birds was completed in July 2010. So, from the time the companies answered the RFPs to IAF announced the two aircraft it was just 26 months or 2.17 years. That's barely anything for a deal so large. The rest of the time was merely the time taken to settle the offsets and hand over the files to the MoF for final price breakdown. So, a lot of that had to do more with the companies deciding how they want to satisfy the offset, industrial and ToT clause than anything to do with IAF or MoD.
So, look at that, I brought down the claimed 7 years to 2.17 years. Only recently was the IAF allowed to resume negotiation of the contract. Without any more political delays like our dear MP did, we will see the deal signed soon, as soon as the specs and configuration are finalized.
..............Easy to blame ADA alone and not consider road blocks ADA faced in the process..........
Hahahahaha! We have seen their roadblocks. A year to get approvals, after they get it they cannot make it. Nice roadblock. When the first model was made there were structural deficiencies making TD-1 unflyable. Let's blame the roadblocks. When a FBW was needed, Dassault offered an analog FBW. But no!!! ADA wanted to develop one on it's own, a Digitial one. And they take 6 years making one. Who do we blame? Let's blame IAF. Engine was a disaster. Approvals were given in 1989, in 2001 the blades were flying around trying to kill the test team. Let's blame GoI for not twisting laws of Physics here like they twist public opinion.
Quite much of Mig-21 crash is attribute to Human Error, which is by product of improper training cadets received.
Like a magical ~30%. What about the other ~70%. Let's blame IAF for pushing an aircraft beyond it's life, maintain whatever they managed without any credible spares supplies and at the same time blame rookie pilots because ADA was dillydallying on a promise made back in 1983 when DRDO suggested they will make LCA while IAF was laughing their asses off on that suggestion. Little did the IAF know they will spend the the first decade of the new millennium crying.
Do you actually believe that the only reason ADA delayed LCA is because of IAF. That's fart the media has been feeding to the ignorant masses since years. Too much patriotism and too little realism.
There is a difference between roadblocks and making substandard equipment. Gates removing funding for the Zimwault is a roadblock. Unavailability of IL-76 platforms for Phalcon AWACS is a roadblock. The F-35 having multiple issues regardless of removing political hurdles and reducing requirements is not a roadblock. It means the F-35's issues make it substandard and has nothing to do with USAF requirements or DoDs red tape. Similarly, the LCA is a substandard aircraft, regardless of the roadblocks. You can say Physics is the roadblock for LCA. It is funny why I don't see the US media blaming the USAF for the F-35 delays. Actually we saw heads roll at Lockheed Martin for the F-35 delays. In India, ADA is enjoying more work instead. Maybe that's how a developed country works and that's how we work. Oh! well. Nobody to blame but the IAF.
