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Thanks, should be interesting for some people. And they must be happy with it, because it's affordable, adds industrial benefits and most importantly, operational capabilities to PAF, that the F16s doesn't! So JF 17 gives PAF a lot, but so would LCA to PAF, while both are only low end fighters...

The funny part is, that those who are so eager to take a shot at LCA because of the CAG report now, either didn't undertand what it's actually talking about, or doesn't even know the capabilities of PAFs fighters either. CAG says LCA has problems with the RWR, does PAF's F16 B52 has RWR? CAG...

Not at all, since there are plenty of good sides of the project, let alone the fighter too. It's even good that we have such an agency that keeps check on such developments and put pressure on DRDO to fix the problems.

If I had made a political statement, I would had refered to another party or politician, which I haven't. In fact, I was talking about the differences between the politicians of the same party itself and of what IAF officials publicaly stated. You seems to be new to the forum and new to the...

True, but the same is the case for the government as a whole, so he seems to be in line with party politics, rather than be out of the box. That's what disappoints me the most, I hoped for a strong DM that is able to stand against the PM or the FM, for the need of the forces if necessary and not...

Yes Parrikar is talking a lot of crap these days and the sad part is, it's not even his fault, since he only tries to publically justify the move the PM did against the needs of IAF and against of what Parrikar did since he is in office. And yes, we need to worry that the government is already...

Disappointing when all the problems are shown like that, but an interesting read!

Thanks!

They don't have to be military experts to evaluate the planned capabilities of the fighters and the time lines, in comparison to what actually was achieved till now. That's why they refer to the ASR capabilities and point their fingers to the problems and not criticizing the fighter in general...

No, accidents happens and since it's the first lost aircraft, one can't say it's a major problem as yet. For IAF it will depend on the requirements if the A400 will be considered or not.

We do have to keep improve things, but we also have to understand where the problem is and what actually is changing. The issue here is not on our side, but on the US side, since they still have to move to comply to our offset requirements, which Russians, Israelis or European do already. Since...

Basically yes, since they only set the basic requirements and were responsible for the evaluation, but any realy decisions were done by MoD, be it the change from MRCA to MMRCA, be it the shortlisting of Rafale and EF, or the selection of Rafale as L1. None of this was in the hand of IAF and...

The replies of the author doesn't really make sense. He is showing the Mirage to be as unproven back than, as the HTT40 would be now, but the point is, that the pilots that would use the HTT 40 are unexperienced newbees, while Mirage pilots would be experienced once, which can handle a problem...

It's not, since it's a fact! LCA is a DRDO project, not an IAF one. They and ADA designed the fighter and chose the subsystems, not IAF. The only part IAF played was, giving the general specs and capabilities they need in a 4th gen light class fighter in the ASR. What DRDO and ADA makes with...

That doesn't make any sense! The upgrade for the M2K was decided only in the recent years, while the LCA ASR is available for decades, so the one has nothing to do with the other. Also, the design of the fighter is the main problem, since ADA and DRDO designed it, to be the smallest fighter in...

As you know, I would be more than happy if that gets reality, since that's what I'm saying for a long time too, but in the current situation I don't see that happening, The government is clearly on a low procurement path, delaying and cutting major procurements. The V22s are pretty expensive as...

If you are refering to me, you are mistaken, since I don't politicize but simply stick to facts and realities. I don't care which party is in power, but what the benefit for the forces is and this deal is going on for too long and the fact is, that there is no difference in it between the...

If the news is true, IAF won't get their hands on them and it surely won't be used in disaster relief missions. It rather inducates the focus on special ops and CSAR, which the IAF can't provide with the CH 47 and infact sidelines IAF and their CH47 procurement. As I said all the time, it would...

Which doesn't make much difference, since it seems to factor the results of the FOC attempt last year with the LSP8 as well, otherwise they couldn't evaluate the shortcomings of the RWR or jammers. It basically tells us some new reasons, why FOC wasn't achieved and it still stands at IOC2 level...

@SpArK , @Abingdonboy , @PARIKRAMA Can you guys please help to keep the list updated! I don't have the time to follow defence news every day at the moment and we should keep a collection of the crash reports that we can always refer to. Would be nice if you can add the once I missed in the...