Hehe
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india...iden-flight/story-361cJFPkScqz6XIf2hzsON.html
We did it without copying. We are building our ships without copying, we can build our SPGs if Army was enthusiastic about them. Chinese have a tendency to be self-sufficient. Our forces are rather happy with buying. Difference is in philosophy not in ability.
Commendable, yes. But a first flight is not a system that is combat ready, something of an oxy-moron in that hindustan times article.
I asked if India's military industrial complex is capable of exporting a functional surveillance and combat drone and you post a prototype on its maiden flight which hasn't been accepted by any of the three arms of the Indian armed forces let alone being ready for export.
Yes you made a drone fly without "copying". Congrats. If that was meant to be an insult, Chinese universities have been flying hundreds of drone prototypes over the past decade. These have either already been exported, accepted into PLA service or are available for export:
Export Designation: Cloud Shadow
CH-4 sold to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Uzbekistan and Egypt
A test in June used a CH-4 to destroy a target at 1000km+ using a satellite link and Beidou guidance:
http://www.popsci.com/chinese-drones-make-key-breakthrough-firing-on-command-by-satellite
Newest member of the Rain bow series UAV's the CH-5 featuring a much greater range and more than double the payload on the CH4A/B
If you want a thread where people will worship your feet and proclaim you their masters, PDF forums are just a click away. We're an enemy country, expect us to be ruthless in showing you your place. :biggrin2:
What I expect is a serious defense forum where actual defense related issues can be discussed without petty nationalistic, hypocritical jibes.
How does "enemy country" come into perspective on a serious defense forum? I never see such on keypublishing or even on amateur forums like matrixgames.
Show me my place? If China has a far superior military industrial complex, then your "place" is probably somewhere in the gutter then. I don't understand how Indians with one of the most under-developed defense industries try to belittle an industry 10 times larger and more sophisticated than their own.
Less ignorant people go on forums to share information and learn, y'all come onto this sub-forum to throw dung like monkeys because China is an "enemy country"?
Again, grow up gents, this forum would be better for it.