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[flowli]

呵呵，这个贴子里回贴的印度朋友真多！
LCA仍在试飞，JF－17已经成军了，呵呵！！！

 

[nitesh]

飞机所使用的空军没有军队
并请不要Troll公司与这诗职位

 

[Marshal]

飞机所使用的空军没有军队
并请不要Troll公司与这诗职位

why are you guys talking in French??? ...why dont you try in African???

 

[Neo]

呵呵，这个贴子里回贴的印度朋友真多！
LCA仍在试飞，JF－17已经成军了，呵呵！！！

Flowli ，請不要寫在國語。
謝謝您 !

 

[nitesh]

The Hindu : Karnataka News : Kaveri engine programme delinked from the Tejas

Kaveri engine programme delinked from the Tejas

Ravi Sharma
BANGALORE: In a move that will significantly affect two of India’s most ambitious aerospace endeavours, the Kaveri engine and Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programmes are to be delinked from one another.

The projected development costs of the two programmes presently totals around Rs. 9,000 crores.

Launched specifically as the engine for the LCA, the developers of the Kaveri - the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) – have, despite spending almost 20 years and Rs. 2,000 crore, not been unable to come up with a workable product.

And more crucially even if the Kaveri does materialise in the years to come its present design configuration will not be able to satisfactorily power an overweight Tejas.

Relief
The delinking of the two programmes will bring relief to the customers of the Tejas, the Air Force, since it was they who had indicated over a year ago that the Kaveri with its present design configuration will not be able to power an overweight Tejas, to air staff requirements (ASRs).

The Air Force also indicated that they would place substantial orders for the LCA only if it meets their ASRs.

Dual path
Given the scenario of a long delayed Kaveri engine jeopardising the LCA programme, the top echelons of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have decided to pursue a dual path. The delinking now allows the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the designers of the Tejas, to go ahead in issuing a request for proposal (RFP) for a more powerful engine that can produce a thrust of around 95 kilo Newtons (kN).

The thrust that the Air Force has projected will be needed if the overweight (by 1.5 tonnes) Tejas is to be powered to meet ASRs.

The RFP is likely to be sent out to two global engine houses - the European consortium Eurojet Turbo for their EJ200 and General Electric for the GE F414.

French assistance
The delinking though is not the end of the road for the Kaveri. A committee headed by Air Vice Marshal M. Matheswaran, has been asked by Air Headquarters to scrutinise an offer made by the French engine house Snecma to co-develop and co-produce an engine along with the GTRE.

Snecma will have to convince the committee that they can indeed co-develop with the GTRE, an engine with a thrust of around 95 kilo kN. Crucial aspects like the transfer of technology to GTRE, number of engines to be produced and costs involved will be studied by the committee.

The delinking will mean that the Tejas will get a ready made engine in the immediate future, while an indigenous GTRE-Snecma developed Kaveri could fructify in five or six years.

 

[nitesh]

Zee News - IAF to induct LCA Tejas by 2015
LCA TO BE INDUCTED BY 2015

Shillong, Sept 27: The Indian Air Force will induct the home-grown light combat aircraft Tejas by 2015, Air Chief Marshal FH Major said on Friday.

Admitting that the Tejas programme was running behind schedule, Major said, the IAF has recently decided to absorb 20 Tejas aircraft and ten others with old engines for training.

Designed and developed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the single-engine supersonic fighter controlled by the pilot with electronically on-board computers, was mooted to replace the ageing fleet of MIGs.

About reports that the aircraft would be able to carry only limited weaponry, Major said, it was conceived in 1982. A new configuration has been developed and it has proved to be very capable, he added.

Of late, experts had found complications such as that Tejas' US aeroengine GE404 did not have requisite thrust to give it power to carry its full load of weaponry.

LCA's present GE404 engines gives a thrust of only 80-85 kilo newtons, while the weapon payload of the fighter needed a thrust of 95-100 kilo newtons.

Major admitted that there was some problems with the engine and search was on for a new one.

"We are looking for a new engine and the RFP in this regard is expected to be issued soon," the Air chief said.

 

[nitesh]

LCA to be fitted with Israeli multi-mode radar

Oct 03, 2008

Ravi Sharma

BANGALORE: The indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas will, after years of delay, soon be fitted with its primary mission sensor, the multi-mode radar (MMR).

P.S. Subramaniam, Programme Director, Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the defence laboratory that is designing the LCA, told The Hindu that “airworthy units” of the Israeli – manufactured MMR would be arriving here early next week for integration into the aircraft. The Elta designed and developed MMR, Elta EL/M-2052 which will be an interim option since India is developing an indigenous one, has already undergone tests on the flight test bed and ground rig in Israel.

One of the most crucial pieces of equipment on any fighter aircraft, the MMR determines the operational effectiveness of the machine, with no fighter aircraft being in a position to perform as one without an MMR.

In the LCA the MMR’s primary role will be to detect and locate targets, process the information, lock on the target and pass this input to the mission computer. From the mission computer this information will be utilised by the pilot as he contemplates weapon release activity. The MMR will also create ground and contour maps when selected.

The long delay in the arrival of the MMR has without doubt pushed the Rs.6,000-crore LCA programme back by many a year. Though initially ADA had intended to use the Ericsson Microwave Systems PS-05/A MMR, it was decided in the early 1990s to indigenously develop one.

But the joint efforts by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (Hyderabad) and Electronics and Radar Development Laboratory (Bangalore) along with coordination from the Centre for Airborne Studies (CABS) failed to come up to expectations. This resulted in the ADA running weaponisation tests on the LCA with a weapon delivery pod, which is not a primary sensor, being forced to keep critical tests on hold.

The Hindu : National : LCA to be fitted with Israeli multi-mode radar

 

[Contrarian]

It cannot be the El/M 2052. Thats the Israeli AESA radar. It must be the Elta 2032 MMR.

 

[nitesh]

It cannot be the El/M 2052. Thats the Israeli AESA radar. It must be the Elta 2032 MMR.

Yeah but let the tests begin then we will come to know the exact details.

 

[nitesh]

Aeronautical Development Agency

 

[nitesh]

Light Combat Aircraft to be delivered by 2011: Antony - Yahoo! India News

Light Combat Aircraft to be delivered by 2011: Antony

Sat, Oct 25 03:05 PM
Bangalore, Oct 25 (ANI): Union Defence Minister A K Antony today said that the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) would be delivered to the Indian Air Force by 2011.

Talking to media during his visit at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Antony said, "The final operational clearances for the indigenously developed aircraft will be given by 2010."

Antony, who also witnessed an air show in which latest aircraft including LCA, Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) and SARAS showed their capabilities and strength, said that LCA and ALH 'Dhruv' would be the prized induction in Air Force.

He also cleared all doubts about the engine used in LCA and the development of engine 'Kaveri' and the LCA prototype will take place simultaneously.

Expressing happiness over the functioning of the ALH, the Chief of the Air Staff, F.H. Major said that the process of weaponisation of the helicopter is taking place and the process is on. (ANI)

 

[su-47]

delays and more delays. by the time LCA comes out, it'll be time to induct MCA.

 

[Nihat]

So if FOC is going to be given in late 2010 , that'll mean we can expect any IOC by next yr. , rrrriiiiiiggght ?

 

[Nihat]

No question of abandoning LCA project: Antony

No question of abandoning LCA project: Antony

25 Oct 2008, 1857 hrs IST, PTI

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BANGALORE: Dispelling doubts over the viability of the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), India on Saturday said the project was very much
on track and there was no question of abandoning the programme, which would be completed by 2011.

"I can tell you with all confidence by end of 2010, the LCA is expected to get its full operational clearance and by 2011, I am sure IAF will be able to get the first delivery of the aircraft," Defence Minister A K Antony told reporters here, after reviewing the performance of the blue-chip Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

"There is no question of abandoning of the LCA project," Antony said, promising that the IAF would get a total of 70 Tejas for its proposed seven squadrons.

Noting that DRDO's Aeronautical Development agency-designed LCA project was being hotly debated along with the Arjun Main Battle Tank for the delays in design and development, the Defence Minister said despite the delay of over 26 years - the project was launched in 1982 - LCA was at last becoming a reality. "It is a success," he said defending the LCA project.

"I have discussed the LCA's progress with the officials of HAL, IAF and from the Defence Ministry and they are all happy with its functioning," he added.

He said initially, the IAF would get delivery of 20 LCAs for one of its two squadrons to be raised by 2011 and as a follow-on order, the IAF would raise five more squadrons. In all probability, the first two squadrons would be based in Sulur air base near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

 

[asaad-ul-islam]

I don't get it, why doesn't the IAF just induct LCA to replace the older aircraft like the MiGs? is it absolutely necessary for them keep on raising the standards? this isn't going to help their defense industry one bit. they should just induct it now, and let it mature through different batches.

they should do the same with Arjun, buy a few to help the industry out. Pakistan has the same problem, but on a lower scale. the military does not bother looking at the private industry. we have a ton of UAV's and equipment, all in the private sector. instead we buy sh*ty western tactical UAV's for ridiculous prices.