GRIPEN has GE F414 ENGINE
IAF NEED OTHER THAN TEJAS DUE TO SLOW PRODUCTION and high rate retirement of fleets,
2 squadrons are to be retired by 2018-2019
Wait for AERO India 2017.
There Will be a fruitful announcement about the procurement of MRCA
F-16's are good but can't be upgraded to...
THERE WILL BE TWO DEDICATED PRODUCTION LINES TO BE INSTALLED. 1 FOR TEJAS AND OTHER FOR DIFFERENT MANUFACTURER.
BOTH PROGRAMS WILL RUN IN PARALLEL
SP3 JOINED IAF MORE ARE IN PIPELINE.
TOTAL 123 are ordered
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There is no lack of Capability in production as you can see HAL in production of su-30, hawk AJT, Dornier 228 etc.
They just slow down because there are bit changes are continuously undergoing.
We may look this configuration in near future but right now I can say , as this Aircraft gone...
Rafale will serve 75+ % availability as mentioned in the contracts.
There is a lot of money required to maintain the availability hence France lower down its availability to cut down the expenses