How Did India Manage to Build an Advanced Fighter Jet Like the Tejas?

[Tornado23]

Old article that was posted onto this forum before and laughed at before.

I'd recommend saving your oxygen on this post. Most probably a karma farm post or flamebait

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Wrong section here...post it in the 'stupid and funny' section of PDF...

So people can laugh, till they cry.

 

[HostileInsurgent]

Yes how did india manage to build a fighter jet full of foreign components in 30 years?

MK1As will have reduced foreign components, MK1 had some issues with indigenous equipments which have been sorted out.

 

[Ghost Hobbit]

lol what you provide a proofs, some MS paint images by the IAF, dude i am software and graphic designer in USA, i can make these kind of Images better than your IAF, if you can give me coordinates, Foreign policy magazine said no F-16 was lost, and same Magazine saying good for your LCA/Tejas that become respectable to you?? isn't double standard from you guys LOL

are you suggesting IAF has created photshop images of the radar plot?

 

[khail007]

How Did India Manage to Build an Advanced Fighter Jet Like the Tejas?
When it comes to sensitive industries like defense, democracy and the rule of law do matter.
BY SALVATORE BABONES | FEBRUARY 24, 2021, 6:04 AM

Indian Air Force Tejas fighter jets perform at the Aero India air show at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bangaluru, on Feb. 3. JEWEL SAMAD/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
India’s biennial military aircraft show, Aero India, went off without a hitch in early February in the southern Indian tech capital of Bengaluru. Despite the travails of pandemic-era traveling, the United States sent a deputy undersecretary, a Navy admiral, and three Air Force generals. It also sent a nuclear-capable B-1B bomber. But the real star of the show was what escorted the U.S. aircraft in the sky: an Indian-built Tejas fighter jet. With a name that means “radiant” in the ancient Sanskrit language, the Tejas is the first supersonic multirole fighter aircraft designed and built entirely in India.
How has a relatively poor country like India that is more famous for call centers than for precision manufacturing managed such a dramatic technological leap? In a word: cooperation. India is keen to build defense-industry partnerships with more advanced countries, and—even more importantly—advanced countries are keen to partner with India. Not only does it have one of the world’s largest military procurement budgets and a large pool of talented engineers, but India also has a strong tradition of rule of law that protects intellectual property and ensures the enforceability of contracts—in stark contrast to China, which is fast losing access to many advanced Western technologies. That makes India a better partner for international technology companies that it, for now, still depends on.
With the Tejas, India joins an elite group of countries that have demonstrated the capacity to develop and manufacture so-called fourth-generation fighters: combat aircraft characterized by electronic fly-by-wire control systems, onboard situation awareness displays, and over-the-horizon strike capabilities. The United States led the way in the late 1970s with the dual-engine F-15 and single-engine F-16, while China began producing similar fourth-generation fighters only in the early 2000s. With the F-22 and F-35, the United States has since begun to produce fifth-generation fighters—adding stealth capacity among other advances—while other countries, including India, are eager to catch up.
The Tejas is a flagship project of the government’s Atmanirbhar Bharat or Self-Reliant India program. So far, India’s defense industry isn’t nearly as self-reliant as the government might like it to be, and the Tejas—assembled by India’s state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics in Bengaluru—is a good example: The government estimates that the fighter is just 60 percent Indian by value, though that figure is expected to rise over time. The biggest-ticket foreign components are the plane’s General Electric F404 jet engine and Israel Aerospace Industries’ radar and electronic warfare systems. Take away these key components, and all you have is an empty airframe.
For India, that’s not a problem: As a democratic country that honors contracts and respects intellectual property law, it is able to buy advanced technology that it cannot produce itself. That gives the country a major advantage over its regional rivals, China and Pakistan, which simply are not trusted by their suppliers. China’s jet fighter development programs have been repeatedly held back by Russia’s unwillingness to supply high-performance engines for fear of Chinese reverse-engineering. And key components of Pakistan’s locally manufactured JF-17 are entirely sourced from China, as is the design.

How Did India Manage to Build an Advanced Fighter Jet Like the Tejas?

When it comes to sensitive industries like defense, democracy and the rule of law do matter.

foreignpolicy.com

Below is how the 'Copy Rats' did it:
Idea From = Wright Brothers
Design n Structure From = France
Engine = From USA
Avionics + EW From = Israel

So from above efforts the 'Indigenous' Teja came into existence to usually ride on truck trailers.

 

[Ghost Hobbit]

Below is how the 'Copy Rats' did it:
Idea From = Wright Brothers
Design n Structure From = France
Engine = From USA
Avionics + EW From = Israel

So from above efforts the 'Indigenous' Teja came into existence to usually ride on truck trailers.

Lol. Foreig Policy magazine is the gold standard on strategic affairs. No one wants to know what you think. The gods have spoken.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

are you suggesting IAF has created photshop images of the radar plot?

yes its a PS proofs after 3 month from Incident, when same magazine from Pentagon confirmed there was no PAF F-16 were Missing, so

Lol. Foreig Policy magazine is the gold standard on strategic affairs. No one wants to know what you think. The gods have spoken.

And same magazine told the world there was no PAF F-16 were missing on 27 FEB, isn't double standard by you guys isn't it dude

 

[HostileInsurgent]

Lol. Foreig Policy magazine is the gold standard on strategic affairs. No one wants to know what you think. The gods have spoken.

Let them speak whatever they want, they themsleves manufacture only the front fuselage of JF-17, avionics are imported, engines and gun is Russian and weapons are Chinese.

in MK1A we’ll have our own E/W Suite, Radar, and avionics and radome.
AMCA will have maximum indgenous content, as I’ve mentioned in my article...

India’s Next Generation Fighter Aircraft, The AMCA.

AMCA or the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft is a fifth-generation fighter aircraft which will be manufactured by HAL. The AMCA programme…

flyingdaggers45.medium.com

 

[Ghost Hobbit]

yes its a PS proofs after 3 month from Incident, when same magazine from Pentagon confirmed there was no PAF F-16 were Missing, so

And same magazine told the world there was no PAF F-16 were missing on 27 FEB, isn't double standard by you guys isn't it dude

No the magazine never said anything about the F 16 incident. That's just a fantasy concocted by PDf members.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

No the magazine never said anything about the F 16 incident. That's just a fantasy concocted by PDf members.

can post that specific article by Foreign policy magazine here for you???

 

[Tornado23]

No the magazine never said anything about the F 16 incident. That's just a fantasy concocted by PDf members.

Ooohhhh bad timing

Did India Shoot Down a Pakistani Jet? U.S. Count Says No.

New Delhi and Islamabad had conflicting accounts of a February dogfight.

foreignpolicy.com

 

[Ghost Hobbit]

Ooohhhh bad timing

Did India Shoot Down a Pakistani Jet? U.S. Count Says No.

New Delhi and Islamabad had conflicting accounts of a February dogfight.

foreignpolicy.com

That was before they did the counting, they later retracted. A rare miss.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

No the magazine never said anything about the F 16 incident. That's just a fantasy concocted by PDf members.

Here you go

Did India Shoot Down a Pakistani Jet? U.S. Count Says No.
New Delhi and Islamabad had conflicting accounts of a February dogfight.
BY LARA SELIGMAN | APRIL 4, 2019, 7:50 PM

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves at a public rally in Kolkata, India, on April 3. (Atul Loke/Getty Images) ATUL LOKE/GETTY IMAGES
India’s claim that one of its fighter pilots shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial battle between the two nuclear powers in February appears to be wrong. Two senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the situation told Foreign Policy that U.S. personnel recently counted Islamabad’s F-16s and found none missing.
The findings directly contradict the account of Indian Air Force officials, who said that Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman managed to shoot down a Pakistani F-16 before his own plane was downed by a Pakistani missile.
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It is possible that in the heat of combat, Varthaman, flying a vintage MiG-21 Bison, got a lock on the Pakistani F-16, fired, and genuinely believed he scored a hit. But the count, conducted by U.S. authorities on the ground in Pakistan, sheds doubt on New Delhi’s version of events, suggesting that Indian authorities may have misled the international community about what happened that day.
The news comes just days before the start of India’s general elections, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking another term in office. In the weeks leading up to the election, tensions between India and Pakistan escalated to levels not seen in decades after a Pakistan-based militant group killed more than 40 Indian security officers in a Feb. 14 suicide bombing in India-controlled Kashmir. Both sides have been accused of spreading disinformation and fanning nationalistic flames.
Although the news likely won’t sway Indian voters, Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political science at MIT, said the way the events have unfolded may affect India’s efforts to deter Pakistan in the future.

“As details come out, it looks worse and worse for the Indians,” Narang said. “It looks increasingly like India failed to impose significant costs on Pakistan, but lost a plane and a helicopter of its own in the process.”
The dogfight between the two nations occurred on Feb. 27, when India says a group of Pakistani jets entered its airspace in response to the first Indian air raid on Pakistani territory since a 1971 war. India scrambled its own jets and gave chase. During the aerial battle that ensued, Varthaman took a missile hit and ejected safely into Pakistani territory.
He was captured by the Pakistani army and released days later in an effort to de-escalate the crisis.
One of the senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the count said that Pakistan invited the United States to physically count its F-16 planes after the incident as part of an end-user agreement signed when the foreign military sale was finalized. Generally in such agreements, the United States requires the receiving country to allow U.S. officials to inspect the equipment regularly to ensure it is accounted for and protected. Some of Pakistan’s F-16s were acquired from Jordan through a third-party transfer, but even these are subject to the end-user agreement, said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the Teal Group, an aerospace and defense firm.
“If you are a user of American defense products … you need to go through a very clear process to send those weapons to a third party,” explained Aboulafia, noting that the United States has a rigid process in place to try to ensure its equipment does not fall into the hands of “hostile actors.”
Did India Shoot Down a Pakistani Jet? U.S. Count Says No. – Foreign Policy

 

[Ghost Hobbit]

Here you go

Did India Shoot Down a Pakistani Jet? U.S. Count Says No.
New Delhi and Islamabad had conflicting accounts of a February dogfight.
BY LARA SELIGMAN | APRIL 4, 2019, 7:50 PM

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves at a public rally in Kolkata, India, on April 3. (Atul Loke/Getty Images) ATUL LOKE/GETTY IMAGES
India’s claim that one of its fighter pilots shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial battle between the two nuclear powers in February appears to be wrong. Two senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the situation told Foreign Policy that U.S. personnel recently counted Islamabad’s F-16s and found none missing.
The findings directly contradict the account of Indian Air Force officials, who said that Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman managed to shoot down a Pakistani F-16 before his own plane was downed by a Pakistani missile.
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It is possible that in the heat of combat, Varthaman, flying a vintage MiG-21 Bison, got a lock on the Pakistani F-16, fired, and genuinely believed he scored a hit. But the count, conducted by U.S. authorities on the ground in Pakistan, sheds doubt on New Delhi’s version of events, suggesting that Indian authorities may have misled the international community about what happened that day.
The news comes just days before the start of India’s general elections, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking another term in office. In the weeks leading up to the election, tensions between India and Pakistan escalated to levels not seen in decades after a Pakistan-based militant group killed more than 40 Indian security officers in a Feb. 14 suicide bombing in India-controlled Kashmir. Both sides have been accused of spreading disinformation and fanning nationalistic flames.
Although the news likely won’t sway Indian voters, Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political science at MIT, said the way the events have unfolded may affect India’s efforts to deter Pakistan in the future.

“As details come out, it looks worse and worse for the Indians,” Narang said. “It looks increasingly like India failed to impose significant costs on Pakistan, but lost a plane and a helicopter of its own in the process.”
The dogfight between the two nations occurred on Feb. 27, when India says a group of Pakistani jets entered its airspace in response to the first Indian air raid on Pakistani territory since a 1971 war. India scrambled its own jets and gave chase. During the aerial battle that ensued, Varthaman took a missile hit and ejected safely into Pakistani territory.
He was captured by the Pakistani army and released days later in an effort to de-escalate the crisis.
One of the senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the count said that Pakistan invited the United States to physically count its F-16 planes after the incident as part of an end-user agreement signed when the foreign military sale was finalized. Generally in such agreements, the United States requires the receiving country to allow U.S. officials to inspect the equipment regularly to ensure it is accounted for and protected. Some of Pakistan’s F-16s were acquired from Jordan through a third-party transfer, but even these are subject to the end-user agreement, said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the Teal Group, an aerospace and defense firm.
“If you are a user of American defense products … you need to go through a very clear process to send those weapons to a third party,” explained Aboulafia, noting that the United States has a rigid process in place to try to ensure its equipment does not fall into the hands of “hostile actors.”
Did India Shoot Down a Pakistani Jet? U.S. Count Says No. – Foreign Policy

This article is obviously an opinion piece. Subjective content is not analysis.

 

[Windjammer]

How Did India Manage to Build an Advanced Fighter Jet Like the Tejas?

By getting help from every major Aircraft manufacturer in the world.

rediff.com: Admiral J G Nadkarni (retd) on the sad tale of the Light Combat Aircraft

Besides after some 30 years, most aircraft are at the end of life cycle while Tejas is just beginning to enter service.