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Good Post, What I see here is India waiting for few more years when it becomes more stronger and Pakistan weaker and weaker. i.e. after a decade it will not make any sense for Pakistan to pump in money in a loosing war. So a status quo works in our favor, also due to india's economic raise...

Hi All, Why we need this older platform why not bigger and better TU-160, Infact there is chance that TU-160 Prod line might open again and India can take few.

Yeah, integration is planned by end of year, as FOC is not a hindrance to production so no issues. They have enough time to integrate Derby and Python 5.

http://www.livefistdefence.com/2013/02/lca-tejas-sports-python-derby.html Some latest updates on python 5 - http://www.livefistdefence.com/2016/06/revealed-the-lca-tejas-that-the-iaf-has-chosen.html

@PARIKRAMA Thanks for the article but there is no new information mentioned in the article like 1. Whether the Base of MK1a will be based on Naval MK1 ( As Prasun has mentioned) 2. Updates on the design refinement for drag reduction? 3. Weight reduction? 4. Its mentioned by HAL chief that MK1a...

unfortunately these bombs are meant for India. US has bent the rules for Pakistan in 80s and 90s and now its our turn :D. Thats true even though it has the financial muscle its slowly getting isolated everywhere... Of course it has got good strategists... but China needs to do reality check and...

Well what I mean is it was not done by scientist but elected government and army and poor scientist was just a facilitator. Well US was considerate not to prosecute government but just an individual. I agree even Pakistan needs a way for survival even at the cost nuclear proliferation:)

Not sure whether we can call this cherry picking, but according to your Najam Set hi US caught Pakistan selling centrifuges to North Korea in exchange for irbms. since Pakistan did not have credible delivery systems during 1990 this was done by none other than Benazir Bhutto

I agree with you that these 3 fighters are the best solution to our operational needs.But the abyss that has been created with lack of induction of new airframes ( apart from MKI) cant be plugged by just these three. I believe there is a need for another fighter and if purchased/inducted from...

OK, My understanding was all other components like engine, self protection suite etc are available for upgrade but only radar was the missing piece. I also heard that IAF was looking at other options for radar ( may be 2052 etc). So as per your understanding whats stopping this deal to move...

Last I heard was - IAF was not impressed with the Aesa option given for the upgrade. Not sure far this is true. May be IAF is waiting for T-50 to get operational and ask for this radar.

Makes sense, but what about Navy's requirement.

Hi Carlosa, What I mean is -- the engine is not the current issue but other LRU etc are. Since you may have to remove some LRUs to reach/replace the engine. The LRUs will be better arranged in the modified avatar leading to reduction in time taken for replacement.

Yes currently it takes quite a lot of time for engine replacement. as of now we do not have exact numbers as its not is active service. and the MK1A configuration should address this kind of service issue as well.

The Problem of LCA MK1 was not primarily Thrust to Weight but Drag, Serviceability, Self protection. The Current version has pretty decent thrust to weight ratio. What is intended in MK1A is slight reduction in drag, slight reduction of weight ( there is lot of dead weight inside added for CG)...

IAF is buying the newer version i.e. I-Derby ER, and this is being integrated to LCA. this is a modern missile ( debut 2015) and as per the companies claim its 80% performance of Meteor at 1/3 cost and much better than all other operational BVRs including Amraam and Mica. Also we do not want...

Well thats true both resemble quite a lot from the pics above. But I believe the chinese plane seems to be not a delta winged. could you please let us know what this plane is?

This is an old article done by Vivek Ahuja very informative... Here is the link to his blog http://thebetacoefficient.blogspot.in/2015/04/lca-tejas-versus-f-16-in-combat-part-i.html

Israel will anyway get involved with AMCA ( Knowing our technical know how on critical systems like Radar etc) but if they get involved for joint then we can expect miracles remember they have operational understanding of some great birds like F15. It will definitely be a Win-Win situation if...

This article looks half baked. The main reason why we need Rafale is Sead, deep penetration terrian hugging mode etc which only mirage in our current inventory is partially capable of ( Ofcourse we do have Jaguar but they are not in this league (Single role fighter)). and infact the cost of last...