U.S. Industry Hit By LCA Clearance Problem

[sancho]

No , its important Sancho . Even if LCA wouldn't had become success, atleast it gave us platform and some working industral base to work for indigenous products .
Look at the contribution of LCA is shaping up Su30.
LCA navy even if not , inducted will help us in experience for developing a naval fighter or a naval UAV in future . BTW i am also fascinated by LCA-UAV announcement.
We never know how AMCA comes up , may be IN decides to go for them after development .

There is a huge difference between LCA and N-LCA! LCA will come in numbers (40 MK1 and at least 100 MK2), will be capable for air defense, close air support, even in the anti ship role and will give us much experience. N-LCA instead will come only in small numbers (6 are ordered so far) and used from STOBAR carriers they will have a very limited payload to be useful as an carrier fighters.

To be honest, I hoped they would come up with that unmanned idea for the Bisons, but for LCA that did not even have the first version operational, it is just another dream that will delay things.
Why they make things so difficult? Just concentrate on MK1 and 2, which are the most important versions, get them operational and learn from that experience. Try to use that for further upgrades with more payload, weapon stations and Kaveri-Snecma engine, or integrate that all in the development of MCA, or even better a UCAV. That would be much more useful than wasting time by getting limited experience with a 4 gen carrier fighter that has no future.

The whole development is too delayed to still remain on early plans and dreams, we have to focus on the important parts and go on.

 

[Dash]

There is a huge difference between LCA and N-LCA! LCA will come in numbers (40 MK1 and at least 100 MK2), will be capable for air defense, close air support, even in the anti ship role and will give us much experience. N-LCA instead will come only in small numbers (6 are ordered so far) and used from STOBAR carriers they will have a very limited payload to be useful as an carrier fighters.

To be honest, I hoped they would come up with that unmanned idea for the Bisons, but for LCA that did not even have the first version operational, it is just another dream that will delay things.
Why they make things so difficult? Just concentrate on MK1 and 2, which are the most important versions, get them operational and learn from that experience. Try to use that for further upgrades with more payload, weapon stations and Kaveri-Snecma engine, or integrate that all in the development of MCA, or even better a UCAV. That would be much more useful than wasting time by getting limited experience with a 4 gen carrier fighter that has no future.

The whole development is too delayed to still remain on early plans and dreams, we have to focus on the important parts and go on.

LCA navy even if not , inducted will help us in experience for developing a naval fighter or a naval UAV in future . BTW i am also fascinated by LCA-UAV announcement.

Are the NAVAL UAVs only Helis? Even I am nit very happy with the announcement that they wil convert LCA to a UAV, which is not a reality.
I still dont understand why N-LCA is going on when only 6 numbers are needed, understood that it will give us a platform, but if you dont induct in large numbers you will never know how to inprovise and where. let alone improvisation, it cant be taken to a state of full scale potent fighter.

I just dont find a logic for N-LCA, when you have RFIs to get F-35. However I must say that N LCA if considered for future then it might serve our future Aircraft carriers, but its hard to know if this machine will be upto the mark by then.

It all depends on how better they make the current LCA performance,engine, avionics and all..