Featured India, US Close To Signing $700 Million Deal To Acquire 100 'GE 404' Engines For Tejas Mk1A Fighter Jets

[White and Green with M/S]

uhm...but tejas baby has been using the f414s for a while...but whatever...

No, Tejas currently uses F-404 not F414

 

[Juggernaut_Flat_Plane_V8]

Everything (including tech support) in India is based on theory, not actual use.

You can call vacuum cleaner tech support in India and talk to an idiot who will rattle off some solutions from a prepared script and has never used a vacuum cleaner himself. How will they know - considering their income of a few dollars a day at best? They could hardly afford to rent a shared room in an apartment, much less buy a vacuum.

Same thing with clothes dryers, dishwashers, leaf blowers, and any modern American appliance you can think of. Total BS and miscalculation by the American companies who fob off these contracts to lying/cheating dhokeybaaj Indian support outsourcers who will say yes to any question asked.

I actually got many of these tele-support idiots in India (after I got totally wrong instructions ) to admit they have no practical experience with the appliances they were "supporting". WTF are these Indian support outfits thinking?

These are no better than scammers and India is now known as the scam capital of the world because of these reasons. Good for India.

If this is the case with "normal" home appliances, then Allah forbid how these Indians will support a new FADEC engine like the F414, which they absolutely will have zero clue about.

By the way - trying to shoehorn the F414 into the Tejas Mk.2 will require not only reconfigured plumbing (given that the F414 fan shroud is a lot larger than the F404 which the Tejas current version flies with) but it will also require some redesign of the fuselage, if not the underlying frame components and the main undercarriage housing. The nozzle is shorter and the center of gravity of the engine (obviously the heaviest component within the airframe) has now changed.

The Tejas is not a large platform and every inch is critical.

Throw the Kaveri engine into the mix for fitting into the Tejas at some point (if the SNECMA sahibs come back and fix Kaveri too), then you have the makings of a 2nd Gen fighter being used against 5th Gen fighters twenty years from now.

In Indian parlance it is "Fun-taastikkk".....

India is trying to do whatever it can......Why is a Bangladeshi having any issue with it?

 

[Beast]

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This is what will be rolled out in Summer 2022 on this GE414 engines

Is that Gripen or Tejas?

 

[HostileInsurgent]

Hang on, did we not have every Indian on this forum give us their wet dreams about first MK2 flight this year? Now pushed back to 2023?

When did anyone say first flight this year here? It has been posted multiple times here that prototype rollout by 2022 and prototype flight by 2023.

Is that Gripen or Tejas?

LCA MK2

 

[Yasser76]

When did anyone say first flight this year here? It has been posted multiple times here that prototype rollout by 2022 and prototype flight by 2023.

LCA MK2

Go through the many threads, first flight was claimed for 2021, then 2022 now it is 2023. Chances of it being pushed back again are high I think, especially if India does not get this Covid outbreak under control.

Bizarre state of affairs as in all likelyhood JF-17 Production will come to an end as MK2 building starts.
Early JF-17s may actually start being retired around 2030 as new build MK2As enter service.

 

[HostileInsurgent]

Go through the many threads, first flight was claimed for 2021, then 2022 now it is 2023. Chances of it being pushed back again are high I think, especially if India does not get this Covid outbreak under control.

Bizarre state of affairs as in all likelyhood JF-17 Production will come to an end as MK2 building starts.
Early JF-17s may actually start being retired around 2030 as new build MK2As enter service.

Share proofs not “go through threads”.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

When did anyone say first flight this year here? It has been posted multiple times here that prototype rollout by 2022 and prototype flight by 2023.

isn't this date for MK-1A, your MK-2 is lot different from standard LCA/Tejas MK-1, which means it mechanically structurally different from standard Tejas, Medium weight (MK-2) vs light weight (Standard MK-1) which means it takes time to adjust aerodynamics and other technical issues by the engineers and technicians before first flight/roll out, so in my best guesstimate your MK-2 will fly 2025-2028 time frame, its not that easy that you think

 

[HostileInsurgent]

isn't this date for MK-1A, your MK-2 is lot different from standard LCA/Tejas MK-1, which means it mechanically structurally different from standard Tejas, Medium weight (MK-2) vs light weight (Standard MK-1) which means it takes time to adjust aerodynamics and other technical issues by the engineers and technicians before first flight/roll out, so in my best guesstimate your MK-2 will fly 2025-2028 time frame, its not that easy that you think

Prototype construction is already undergoing and will be rolled out next year, and will fly in 2023.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

Prototype construction is already undergoing and will be rolled out next year, and will fly in 2023.

give me a break, so you telling us that MK-2 and MK-1A will fly almost simultaneously?? and provide the source for that

 

[HostileInsurgent]

give me a break, so you telling us that MK-2 and MK-1A will fly almost simultaneously?? and provide the source for that

LCA MK1A will roll out in 2023 of production variant, LCA MK2 will be prototype.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

LCA MK1A will roll out in 2023 of production variant, LCA MK2 will be prototype.

source???

 

[maverick1977]

so much disinformation from Indian side.

Are there any operational Tejas Squadron ?

 

[White and Green with M/S]

so much disinformation from Indian side.

Are there any operational Tejas Squadron ?

yes they have recently operationalized one Squadron

 

[HostileInsurgent]

yes they have recently operationalized one Squadron

2nd sqaudron established last year.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

2nd sqaudron established last year.

can you give me a hint where it stationed???