No export to Malaysia is possible. India doesn't want to export. Exporting military items require lot of care which is not yet Indian forte.
Right. We just accidentaly sent a Tejas team to Malaysia to compete with the JF-17 and the Korean plane. We also accidentally replied to the RFI from Royal Malaysian Air Force. Seriously man. We are trying to export it. It will fail if RMAF decides that the other planes are better. Not because India is "inexperienced" or "lacks care", whatever that means.
Why import Rafale when Tejas is there? It is because Tejas was a mistake. India was short sighted and made a wrong decision to make a small plane. As a result, there was a plane which is suboptimal. Hence getting Rafale design to compensate for this mistake.
I've heard about this stupid idea called MWF. I don't know man, it seems silly. The Rafale and the MWF are so similar that there's no use, we should get rid of the MWF. Just buy more Rafales.
The MWF induction is expected to be around 2025, and the MMRCA induction shouldn't be much earlier, if all goes well. The MWF is going to fly with the F414. Rafale will fly with M88. I won't believe otherwise until I see concrete evidence that Kaveri is successful, and that ADA or HAL is trying to integrate it.
MWF & AMCA will fly with F414 as that is being used for development. But eventual indigenisation is obvious. I can't understand how one can be so foolish and think that F414 will be a permanent choice! What is the point of getting imported weapons in such critical area?
We don't know how long it will take for new engines to come. Kaveri unfortunately failed. If the MoD has any brains, they really are funding the K9 and K10, and hopefully at least one of them will be successful. Until they are successful though, our planes will fly with the F414. And it doesn't seem like the K9 or K10 will be in time for MWF.
This is updated recently after certification by France. It is the correct figure. Till 2017, the number was 78kN which got changed after testing
So they corrected the figure. Apparently the engine performed better than expected, but it isn't news worthy? Use your brain, Kaveri is dud. Sorry to say it, but unless DRDO integrates it into something, its a failure. We should instead immediately divert all of our resources into a new engine (K9 and K10) and maybe some residual people can try fixing the Kaveri.