An amazing post indeed sir ...
-Your absolutely right ... we wasted 5 years over J-10 which was meant to be the reaction for MMRCA ... You know the deal you were yapping about since the last 8-10years which is effectively dead and a new deal for a third of the original numbers is in the works ... which too is going down the drain .... Lets not forget at one point AL-31 was not available to us and WS-10 was not considered as reliable ... well today we can get the J-10 with AL-31 and turns out WS-10 has overcome the reliability issues it was facing ... 5 years wasted right ....
Wasted means , their is not such deal at all people is flying with their imagination. Today also you dont have any plan for J-10 with Al-31 , because Russian are giving more engine for you / spare parts.
-Good for you, you've gained soo much of an advantage ... lets make a list shall we ...
-Increased SU-30 MKI's (known for being a maintenance headache with low availability, but to be fair a good fighter jet)
IAF working on the availability part already.
-MMRCA (original plan 126, original deal effectively dead ... with the Indian side negotiating for the 1/3rd of the original MMRCA deal and that too is going through problems)
Well its no Point of Inducting 2 different type of plane in same time.
India plan changes as per time and need
by 2018-19 when MMRCA is completed , then Russian 5th gen started inducting or making and SU30- to Super Su-30 will start.
Therefore no use of having large number of planes. when you are going to have 5th gen why invest more then 4.5 gen MMRCA.
-LCA Tejas ( the jet that supposedly can do anything the F-16 can .. except ofcourse replace a jet from the late 50's in the Mig-21 .. to the point where Hal was like .. we can give you another version in the MK1A of Tejas .. in 2018 if you want and IAF still waiting on MKII, supposedly post 2020 which is if everything goes according to plan as we have witnessed that it almost does every time ... )
I cannot even explain you the AC technology. The IAF reluctance is due to ego issues nothing else. Indian Aero space technology is maturing now.
In 2018 , IAF SU-30MKI will be started upgraded to Super SU-30MKI.
-PAK-FA ( the jet that IAF originally planned to induct in numbers revolving around 200, then reports came out of a reduction citing a number near 120+ and then today the number has gone down to 65 so less then a third as compared to the original plan)
-Let's not even discuss the wet dreams of AMCA and company ...
So please continue with your amazing performance ... the folks on our side wish you continue with the amazing work ..
Did you know why number came down? India want to build its own PAK-FA ver. , but since it take more then 3-4 years to develop that version, India will buy only 65 numbers of those version which is used by Russian AF.
India build and modify plane as per its needs . India want Twin Seat PAK-FA like SU-30MKI. Indian SU-30MKI was Twin Seat while at that time Russian SU-30 is single Seat. Twin seat was developed for India only.
incomplete knowledge is always dangerous.
brag when you actually do something to us
didnt we done in 71?