Simply announcing that you wish to create a 5th gen program and then putting a due date on it the day after tomorrow? 7 years sooner than the realistic timeline of any other nation with 5x your expertise manufacturing, operationalizing, maintaining most component technologies involved?
Did you read my first line? Often, the first line of a post is the first to be read. A habit that is recommended to you for what it's worth.
If this is your definition of "doing well" I completely understand why it took India 30 years to build a single engine samosa that not even the IAF thinks is good enough to replace flying coffin MIG-21s that kill more of your pilots than anything else. I've seen better welding work in a Peshawar bike shop.
Again, you should look at the 30 years with a closer look than you seem prepared to do. It is easy to pick up a figure here and a figure there and come to self-serving conclusions. It is easy to take up the facetious remark of a young person seeking to impress her audience with her ready wit and sense of humour, while displaying the deep streak of envy that seems to grip people who look at the result and feel inadequate.
I am not sure where you get the impression that the IAF is not keen to replace the MiG21s with the Tejas. The Tejas is a work in progress, the first front-line fighter that has been designed and built in India after the HF24, and it will absorb improvements very readily, especially as all the software and integration aspects are in our own hands.
Oh, good luck with your Peshawar bike shop. Presumably that is where you design and build your thousands of bikes and scooters.
Designing and maintaining stealth shape and coating involves precision chemistry and metalwork unlike any other field in the world.
You might like to ask around about the difficulty in going from a low level of aviation technology to one that seeks to emulate and improve upon the MiG21.
We did it, and I have no doubt that we will succeed in making a stealth design, shape, coating and bolts included. I wonder if any aspect of the precision chemistry (in making the composites that form a significant part of the Tejas structure) or the metalwork fails to meet your discerning gaze, or if you therefore believe that your Peshawar bike shop is likely to make planes faster and better.
Countries that build stealth fighters mind the size and depth of each and every screw on the surface of the jet to minimize radar cross section. Some of the metal blemishes I've seen on every single public photo of the Tejas are the size of half a fist
It will light up on radar.
It was not meant to be a stealth design, in case you have forgotten. When the shape was designed, only a substitute for the MiG21 was planned. It is a matter of great regret that your advice and guidance was not sought and a stealth aircraft produced instead of what finally resulted. There would have been such a dramatic boost in performance if that sound step had been taken. After all, what can meet modern aviation technical requirements more accurately than a Peshawar bike shop?
Even Pakistan has given up on the indigenous stealth technology race now and have merged AZM with a partner. We don't care about being able to call it "indigenous" that's why we can drop the pride when necessary and take the help we need to field the superior fighter asap.
There are a number of things that have been 'dropped' by others, that does not particularly interest us. We design and make our own ships, our own boats, our own fighter aircraft (complete with half-a-fist metal blemishes), our own tanks, our own guns and we seek to do much more, not drop them, but to achieve them.
I note with admiration your determination to reach your targets, and drop your pride, and build the superior fighter, and so on. I note also that this fearless and daring spirit imbues your efforts in all fields, including building your own ships, your own boats, your own fighter aircraft, your own tanks and your own guns, of course, with a little help, the 'help we need'; it is also instructive to see the ability to seek such help from such a wide range of helpful partners and associates, right from the 50s onwards. Now that your single-minded determination has got to bike shops in Peshawar, no doubt an awe-struck world will see more marvels emerge from your deep and wide technology. Who knows? even the staggering 800,000 plus bikes manufactured, across 38 manufacturers, might be expanded manifold. We have much to learn.
You sure the deadline isn't 3025?
It is a stupid deadline, but then, we have a stupid government. Even if it is a delayed project, don't you think it is worth it, to try and make it on our own, without stealing industrial secrets and using screwdriver technology?
