I think by 3017 HAL/ADA/GTRE/What-so-ever-alphabetical-soup-agency will be able to get a limited serial production of the engine. Too bad earth will be out of petroleum by then.
There is a clear pattern emerging if one cares to note. The technology wanted shifts every year, and the developers are always playing catch up. Whether it was the Tejas, the Arjun, or now this engine it is proudly said that we will make better then ever before. Maybe the French knock some sense into the DRDO or maybe they keep on skimming the Indians and their 'not good enough' mentality.
The Russians will not take kindly to the French being allowed that near their fighters. the engine is the heart of the plane and would reveal too much on the workings of the planes.
Well, if US can digest Chinese being near to Pakistani F-16... I guess anything is possible.
Does not make it okay for projects to be mismanaged. The whole point of the projects, at least some of them was to a have a mediocre system which was home made and cheap to free up money for expensive purchases from abroad.
Yes, you see them wanting to give us the latest in technology now. And strapping an engine on is not like changing shoes...
Russia is no US. They can not afford to lose India as a customer, especially when China is moving out of their order books very fast.
What your nation honestly needs is to kick out all the officials meant to decide requirements in the air force and army and replace them with the people from your navy. They are not bolstering the latest in everything, but they get stuff done. Now with a fleet ready they have the luxury of having what they want on it in terms of specifications in anti ship and SAM's etc.
That is too optimistic a view to take. Few points here for me make it seem otherwise. The first and foremost reason is they are managing to retake some of the Middle East market and even managing to make new in roads.
There is a much general problem in India. That is of disconnect between Indian military production houses, Indian R&D centres and Indian forces. R&D folks want to swing their academic dongs without any regard for practicality of their research to enter in production, production houses are using manufacturing capabilities from 1950s or 60s and trying to produce a product with 90s R&D while forces want 2010s capability.
When you have an ill-reputation of being the largest importer of weapons, you get some privileges too. Like shooing Russians away from MMRCA and they still keep coming back to us to sell their Mig-35. Again and again and again.
the era of the Mig is coming to an end, but that is for another day. They will sell it anywhere they can, and too survive have been thrown a bone, i.e. money for a 5th generation concept. Let us see if they can do what Sukhoi did to them at one time....
Everything in India is Indigenous....irrespective of the fact, you take help from big bro Russia or notYou guys are so cute. You lift the word 'indigenous' to a whole new level.
Seriously speaking, i don't think they can.can primitive India be able to make WWII standard piston engines yet? or should I say, are they capable of assemble a WWII era piston engine with directly imported foreign parts yet?`````to me this article is yet another joke from joke India
Well, an easy way to explain is this. A customer usually demands impossible things knowing little but atleast knowing what they need the product to do. After discussion with various experts the requirements change, not to mention the what is available in the store/country and what could be possible. So basically the Indian side issues request for information, based on that requirements change. The downside is that these talks, take a long time and usually transparent as everything is considered including budget. However when a higher power barges in, it'll speed up the process but rest assured when politicians get technical, there is double dealing or corruption involved, ie closed door agreements. Hardly happens with Indias large projects because of various overseeing authorities.
They don't think thats a valid point.
The personal rifle is rather inexpensive to operate compared to multi million dollar air frames. You do have point that F-16/ Flankers will be around for a long time but not the same line as the AK47 i'd think.
This is not the issue. The public sector controlled the defense manufacturing in India. The navy, used private/public shipyards who took risks. Change is happening but the technology that the public sector created will need to be handed over to responsible private players. So those 2 billionaires in India fighting for this right.
This tinkering will not effect the weapons combat ability. The only things off limits is the radar for known reasons, and perhaps the chaff/flare launchers. But over all, this doesn't give them much. The Flanker is not longer cutting edge and never was. Its advantage comes from its long range hence the name Flanker. The aircraft that flanks enemies.
Seriously speaking, i don't think they can.
Dude dont reply to chini trolls they do deviate from the topic in every Indian related post.
