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i am just waiting to see this hunk in action .... wonder how many people will get the bashing who have critised it and themselves dont have BVR capability
IAF is willing to support indigenous programs as long as the products arrive on time, Barbora says. “We are not asking for the Moon. We are willing to wait, but give us what has been promised as per the deadline. We understand it’s not easy to make an aircraft.”
“The Tejas Mark I is already as good or better as the light fighters in the IAF,” declares ADA chief, PS Subramaniam, referring to the MiG-21 BISON. “The air force should order at least 60 of them.”
But, the IAF is less exuberant.
Senior air marshals point out to Business Standard that, if they grant the Tejas IOC at the end of 2010, it will be in the long-term interest of the fighter programme, not because the Tejas has met all its targets. The Tejas does not fly as fast as originally planned; its acceleration is significantly less; and the Tejas has not been tested yet in carrying much of the weaponry it is designed to
Air Marshal Nak Brown will head the IAF’s team
It will be issues on the ground that will take centre stage in Bangalore . With questions over the LCA’s combat performance especially climb, acceleration and how fast it could turn at certain altitudes having cropped up during the recent sea trails at Arakonnam, a detailed assessment of what can be managed within the time frame will have to be undertaken. Sources said the IAF would have to be asked to lower certain aspects of their air staff requirements for the LCA, which at the moment were unrealistic.
According to the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s Chief Controller Research and Development (Aeronautics and Material Science) D. Banerjee, there is no doubt that the aircraft and engine have to improve, but any improvements will have to suit the time frame.
“The IAF will have to be asked how many aircraft they take with the current performance.”
Dr. Banerjee under whom ADA functions, told The Hindu that improvements can be made to the aero dynamism of the aircraft by ‘technical cleaning’ to remove drag, and also improving the LCA’s propulsion system.
Too much is hidden between the lines -
How come every ACM and air-force official echo same feelings
Same question's remain unanswered
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Someone is lying Big-time .
Its time we see both sides of coin , we have only seen one side of it .
KAVERI-M88-3 HYBRID
To further develop the Kaveri engine to power future generation of UAV's and Next Generation Fighter Aircrafts (NGFA) a Joint Venture between Snecma Engine Manufacture from France and GTRE from India was formed in Mid 2008 to develop a 100KN Thrust engine, Snecma will bring in M88-3 Core and use the Technology developed for Kaveri to make this new engines,it is expected that the first working Prototype will be ready within 5 to 6 years
i picked this up from lca tejas org ......
dev time is 5-6 yrs ....that mean it wud be ready by 2013-14 , same time for tejas mk2 ...
but the ongoing competition is only between fe414 and ej 200 .... why so ??????
coze IAF want proven engine which already flown and also JV of engine not sign yet it mean it will not ready before 2016.