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No way, More than a decade of effort on evaluation and exhaustive negotiations for a mere 54 jets, will question the wisdom of IAF planners. Rafale will form the back bone of IAF. Will make the "Middle Order" formidable. Like Mr.Dependable Dravid, it will "Defend" our airspace as a Wall, at times it will "Open" the attack, always it will "Keep" the enemy guessing, and "Slog" down the line when needed. Hope Rafale and the Light Weight Fighter co exist in numbers.So gripen is coming? That means rafale numbers will be capped at 36+18?
No way, More than a decade of effort on evaluation and exhaustive negotiations for a mere 54 jets, will question the wisdom of IAF planners. Rafale will form the back bone of IAF. Will make the "Middle Order" formidable. Like Mr.Dependable Dravid, it will "Defend" our airspace as a Wall, at times it will "Open" the attack, always it will "Keep" the enemy guessing, and "Slog" down the line when needed. Hope Rafale and the Light Weight Fighter co exist in numbers.
GTRE(Gas Turbine Research and Development Establishment) is a part of DRDO, instead of DRDO I typed HAL..
Again I'm telling you, Comparing to all those achievements by GTRE or DRDO in terms of Propulsion systems is not right.. What we do is assemble in KD, SKD kits or at the maximum get the parts manufactured locally with specs and Drawings provided by the OEM.. The only indigenous effort was during GTRE-X or Kaveri project, but it is stuck at a very critical phase.. Where as the VOLVO has done far more than that.. VOLVO has developed their own FADEC by early nineties.. DRDO or GTRE had done it after the development of KAVERI.. VOLVO has understood the GE engines and designed their own Y-Ducts in the compressor inlet to have better fuel efficiency than the original GE engines.. They have also developed certain crucial parts as per the requirement of Swedish Airspace to have better reliability and to sustain Bird hits.. Now that is indegenous.. They have the techs required but they didn't needed a completely indegenous product because there was no need for that and the swedes also had no export restrictions in terms of the Engines(Except for those countries under sanctions). Now Compare the situations and tell me if you want to compare the Two in the same league???
@A.P. Richelieu @PARIKRAMA @Taygibay If you guys could add to what I quoted above..??
No.. My reply was when you compared to Grippen, with the current day Specifications to LCA MK1A.. As on date comparison is what I had given there.. Grippen with its Selex Made AESA and LCA with ELTA made Pulse Doppler..
No.. U just have to check the SAAB page to see how advanced they are in terms of Avionics and Radars and for how many years and how many countries they have exported their radar systems too.. But if you compare SAAB and BEL or DRDO on the same levels then it is like comparing to apples and oranges..
Bofors Howitzers is a SAAB made weapon and we all know how it kicks *** even today, it is an evidence to SAAB's quality.. SAAB had a legacy of Building highly advanced fighter Jets such as Viggen, Grippen etc from scratch for more than 40 years.. They have successfully exported those fighter jets and kept the end users satisfied with the performance and after sales service.. They were the first in the world to successfully create and deploy a canard wing fighter jets in the world.. They have created their own GAN modules based AESA Radar and it is about to enter production.. They have enough experience and expertise in modifying and finetuning GE , P&W engines according to their needs..
They are also in the process of designing a 5th generation fighter jet for international market.. I would say these qualities are enough for a company to venture in MII.. And moreover, it is SAAB which is going to invest Billions.. Not the Indian Govt.. They just need a market to sell if they come up with something awesome..
Just my views..
May be.. I did not get into the minute details of which technology owned by or developed by which organisation.. I was speculating the Abilities of SAAB as a technology developer and manufacturer and compared it with a Budding organisation like HAL.. But these details you've mentioned above are new to me..I understand your point of view and i do like SAAB products. However, Viggen was not technically speaking a canard delta plane, but a double delta (nvm, detail). During the same period, Dassault implemented canards on Mirage III S (another detail). SAAB (in fact the intellectual property is owned by Chalmers university) ability to build GaN modules comes from the very same european programs as UMS, QinetiQ, SELEX etc. capabilities (Korrigan and some others (manga, magnus + national programs). One can therefore expect that technology involved will be very similar.