At least the both aircraft you mentioned have majority of the equipments in their own countries and imported from others ... Is it the case with LCA Tejas ? Building an aircraft means that you build most all of the components by yourself ... Something which isn't definitely the case with your delayed aircraft ... No , we do not believe in reinventing the wheel ... With limited resources , a BVR capable aircraft with more than decent capabilities which can replace all our 3rd Gen aircrafts and kick start our industries is more than enough for us ! Add to it the continuous evolution and you get a beast ...
Pakistan will have a production line for JFT at Kamra somewhere in 2015 so it isn't that far away ... Even the engine will replaced by the WS-10 ... Nobody's claiming JFT's indigenous ...
What you are doing now (getting into a JV with foreign country to build a fighter,
mostly by the foreign partner) India already did a decade ago. We produced over
200 MKIs and we have already replaced 100s of old MIG-21 and MiG-23s with them.
Now we're trying to build our own fighter with in-house R&D regarding its
design, aerodynamics, flight characteristcs etc all by ourselves. LCA's majority
components are from Indian companies, there are many things imported but
we'll gradually build on them with indigenous alternatives. But I don't see
pakistan doing anything like that with your chinese-JV fighter JF-17.
Tejas is primaruly an Indian fighter with foreign components. And its' India's
first home-grown fighter design (HF-24 was designed by Kurt Tank). But jf-17
is a chinese design and all chinese technology.
Sweden has produced many fighters like Draken and Viggen before Gripen
by itself and still it imports engines and radars, whats wrong with India doing
the same? Atleast the design of the fighter is our own.
And btw, India had already developed its own MMR radar for LCA and we
even tested it abroad a HS-748 testbed. But EL/M2032 from Israel was found
to be better than the indigenous radar, hence IAF selected it.
India has also developed its own turbofan engine GTX-35VS. The only problem
is that it doesn't give enough thrust for this jet, but we'll improve on it and Im sure
LCA will fly with Kaveri engine. But the engine si there and it will power a lot of
things not just LCA - it'll be used on the AURA UCAV and IN is looking to procure
the marine gas turbine version for powering some corvettes.
Back it up with proof ... Weren't you telling us in previous post that how Pakistan funds 100% of the development now since PLAAF didn't buy the aircraft ?
Contradictory statements , kiddo ?
I has already told you to watch your mouth before calling others kids. Read again
mister, i was talking about FC-20 there, not JF-17. When i say jf-17's funding i mean
the development funds (which are already over). 50% pak and 50% china. but
LCA is 100% Indian cash.