Bhadra quoted out of context and just for the hack of it... Bhadra is the love bird ...
Gripen is operational. Is Tejas operational ?:bs:
So far as foreign mal is concerned, MoD decides what to import and DRDO decide what they can assemble after import ... both are foreign mal.. and both decide based on the sizes of their pockets..
Please do not bring the forces into it ... they only want good mal..
rather than mal which fills their pockets...
I and many others are sick of your sustained defamation to cover up your theft.... pay attention to research rather than Re - search your pocket for its emptiness...
Only things that are worth looking at in your replies are the fun smilies.
You can buy foreign mal for eons but they will not let you replace a single subsystem with local ones unless a SU-30 MKI like MOU is drawn up, which will never happen with western hardware.
And you will be frozen as a sucking client forever. A joke to be called regional power!!!
But the armor and gun barrel tech of Arjun were ported to T-90 when the Russians declined to give TOT with the aim of slowing local production here and force IA to buy directly buy from Russia. So the gun barrel tech and armor of T-90s in IA gleaned out from Arjun program free of cost,.Only DPSUs will allow that . Any private entity will not allow it.
And still the T-90 imported by our beloved armed forces with crooked trials is non functional for prolonger operations in desert, for which the IA is unashamedly asking DRDO to fix AC!!!! Why because russsians and all other foreign MNCs have declined to fit it. It still has no AC and its electronics will pack up in desert heat.
but the much criticized Arjun is a functional tank in desert. Our beloved IA is sabotaging the whole project by not ordering 500 arjun mk1s at one go , Because IA knows if they do the logistics will stablize and batch improvement will take place and there will be no scope for importing another MBT from russia however faulty , and unsuitable for our desert terrain.
thats why they have ordered just 124 Arjun MBTs and given a long list of 80 changes for arjun mk2. But Sweedish airforce did not dangle a carrot on a stick atttached to SAAB's head and run till gripen NG is reached, gripen As were made and bought them in hundreds in each versions A, B, C, D and now NG.
And despite seeing the worth of arjun mk2 IA is only ordering the same magic number of just 124. Why because if a 500 plus guaranteed order is given then lot of subsystems will be taken up for localization including engines and which will lead to stabilization of production and further lowering of cost eliminating scope for further MBT imports.
If at all IAF was serious about its falling fleet number it need not have run the ten year long cicus called MMRCA, the Su-30 MKI production was stabilizing fast, they could have asked HAL to set up additional Su-30 MKI production line and asked the GOI to buy any available ASEA radar on the market and make it truly multirole. this would have eliminated the need for 8 billion worth just 38 rafales .
Our MMRCA backing chairmarshals in beloved IAf went on pretending there is no plan B for MMRCA, till manohar parrikar flatly announced that ASEA equipped super sukhoi upgraded Su-30 MKI will be the plan B and stopped the gravy train called MMRCA.
Manohar Parrikar took care to order 36 rafales immediately to arrest depleting fleet strength of IAF and provided a plan B for monumental MMRCA forex waste by giving them Plan B.
Many people said the same thing on many forums , we dont need MMRCA in 200 numbers and additional su-30 fighters with upgrades and tejas will do the job. Every one toeing this line was called a clown who doesn't understand airwar. But finally when manohar Parrikar said that "savings " from 126 MMRCA fighters will be better utilzed in adding more tejas everybody was quite.
bulk of our armed forces men sweat it out in the borders under most punishing conditions and are ready to put their life on line trusting whatever equippment GOI gives them.But it is the higher decision making bodies of central govts , both in armed forces and MOD ,that play all these games of there is no substitute for imports and get the import gravy train running, by slyly inculcating in every indian mind that we are racially inferior to the west and even chinese when it comes to defence production,
In the same way the Oborgs developed for tejas are now going to be implemented on SU 30 MKI.Also it was the much hated HAL which won the IAF contract to fit brahmos on Su-30 MKI beating the russian firm .
Impressed with the avionics fit of Su-30 MKI russian airforce is ordering around 64 sets of mission computers and radar computers to their SU-30 SM fleet.Most of the avionics development effort on Su-30 MI and jaguar Darin upgrade were seeded in tejas program.
ALso the first 500 flights of tejas carried over five years which validated control laws for fly by wire tech-Relaxed Static Stability fighters will form a common database to all ou future RSS fly by wire efforts, even SAAB has to outsource this tech to US firm after a few prototypes crashed in their Gripen test flight program.
Also the composite tech developed for tejas is now being used on SU-30 MKI fuselage parts leading to significant weight savings and RCS reductions.
So even when they drag on ,much hated indigenous programs leave a trail of tech that will enrich all equipments of indian armed forces, For people grating on INSAS being faulty , can never answer why all the contenders failed in indian multi cal rifle trials.
4 of the 5 MMRCA multi billion dollar birds failed the Leh high altitude trials which is crucial for IAF, but tejas in mk1 itself has passed them with ease.
Clnging on to irrlevant and old CAG reports along with dubious opinions of DDM "eggspurts" and annonymous "defence forces officials " to beat the drum that local efforts are waste of money is far from reality.
However I love those smilies, Please add a lot when you reply.
