I was expecting this kind of comment from Americans and Chineese as peace between India and Pakistan doesn't suit your future plans.....
On Topic-
I don't understand why these kind of comments comes from people who are not in power or whoose thinking doesn't matter....
I think their is some mistake here......
Normal take off weight - 9.1 Tonne{jet with full internal Fuel}
Maximum Take Off Weight - 12.7 {Jet+Fuel+External Load}
That means
Maximum External load - 3.6 Tonne {12.7 Tonne - 9.1 Tonne}
Dam Chineese and their naming problem can't they stick to one name.....sometimes i am not even able to understand which plane they are talking about.....
Jf 17,FC-1,Fierce Dragon
J10,FC-20,Vigorous Dragon, and Now F-10
MIG21{Soviet} chineese names F-7,J-7 and then its BGI,PGI...
Their is no need to place any of our National asset in Afghanistan....The best way to go forward is to provide training and equipments to Afghan soilders,pilots and their special forces.......Let them stand on their own feet....
Dude world is changing....Btw this partnership is perfect example of
'' Waqt Aane Pad Gadhe Ko Bhi Baap Banana Padta Hai''
They know that time of Europe is almost over and in modern era they won't able to fund their weapon project by themselves....
I don't have any problem with the delay...But i definatly have problem with the time they disclosed INS Arihant and INS Vikrant program...I think they should have waited for the sea trials of these project before disclosing it infront of Media....
So its
40 Tejas Mk1 for IAF
83 Tejas Mk2 for IAF
46 Naval Tejas For Naval Air Arm..
So the total number will be 160+ not bad althrough i was thinking IAF will go for 10 Squad of Tejas...
Believe me guys the main difference between Pre 2004 India and Currunt India is that
Pre 2004 India-
We{Indian Govt and Indian People} were like Baniya's...we had money but we didn't like to show off....we were used to save it for future...
Currunt India-
We are behaving like Typical...
All thanks to corrupt Govt and their Corrupt Babu's.....
CWG Scam
CoalGate Scam
2G Scam
Adarsh Scam
Scam on Land Deals
MNREGA Scams {By state Govt }
Scam on defence deals
Wastage of food grain worth Billions of Dollars
After all these scams this was bound to happen...Damm they...
The way things are going i am damm sure that by 2022 IAF will be the 4th Most powerfull Airforce with around
400+High End Fighters.. {Su30Mki,Rafale,PAKFA}
200 Mid Fighter..{Mig29Upg,Mirage 2K9,TejasMk2}
150 Low End..{LCA Mk1,Jaguar}...
High End Fighter-
4++ fighter
Twin Engine...
@AP Come back to planet Earth...PAF in top 10 airforces with present inventory is a Big Joke....dude currently you don't even have 100 opertional 4+ Gen fighter jets which can fire BVR missiles....
But ya with present orders by 2018 PAF 03 move to 15Th position....
150 Mid...
^^^I agree with you Sir..These cancellation are definatly tarnishing our image in weapon market...
Nope That's not going to happen buddy as they can't get any kickback by procuring MBT Arjun or Arjun Mk2..
For your information Gripen belongs to Light Fighter jet Category.....
Tejas Size
Lenght of Jas 39 Gripen C/D is around 14.1 meter and on the other hand
lenght of Tejas Mk2 will be around 14.2 meter.....
If they would have used Delta wings with Cannards model then most probably Tejas would have achieved 2 Mach speed with present engine only and Cannards would have made it much more manuverable then present Tejas......
To be frank that model was more or less similar to Grippen .....
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