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Deliveries started from 2009! Please Read Carefully.The source says clearly, expected final delivery around 2011 / 2012, but they wasn't inducted yet. Neither IRKUT, nor any Indian source confirmed that so far, especially the earlier always reports that. Not to mention that if there were any serious issues about HALs MKI production, MoD would have ordered Super 30s via Irkut again and didn't added the 40 to HALs productionline.
It is now mid 2012. The deliveries got completed before 2012, lot of time for inducting all 40. That info was given by the Defence minister to the parliament, not made up by some illiterate desi journos. HAL has only delivered between 60-70 fighters till date out of 140. The Super-30s too will most probably be semi and fully knocked down kits provided by Irkut.
If you still don't believe the above link, straight from the CAG's mouth - http://cdasecbad.ap.nic.in/sankalan... Comptroller and Auditor General of India.pdf
I'm surprised fellow Indians know this little about India's Premier fighter.
No no no. I'm not going to tutor you on Range RCS equation. Google it and calculate it yourself. The link I gave specifically mentioned 148km, not 130km! and 52 km extra from that. Take the equation and leave the new RCS as X, and substitute 130km, 148km and 3m2 in the respective places. Finally get the magic number 5, as the new RCS. Repeat the same for 160km.AESA radars take 3m2 targets as the base, not like older puls doppler radars and the same applies to Zhuk AE, you just need to read to see that
55Kgs for an increase of 68mm compared to Zhuk ME, the one they promised with 200Km has must have a way bigger diameter and therefor way higher weight. As mentioned, it was reported that they had changed the diameter in the prototypes several times because of weight issues.
The 275kgs 200km radar which they are talking about is infact this very same radar.
Money is a limited resource, especially for a developing country like India.Because more M2Ks were too costly and we had no other options, today we have money and are inducting 4 different types of fighters. Simply logic + offical statements from MoD and IAF about its, that's why speculating about additional fighter types doesn't really makes sense.
If you still won't believe that HAL won't screw up inspite of all the links I gave before, will you believe CAG's?
140 Su-30MKI jets to be manufactured by HAL at a total cost of $4,809 million(Rs 22,122.78 crore). So the average cost of the HAL manufactured fighter is $34.35 million. But that's not the whole story. Rs 22,122.78 crore for 140 aircraft in 2000 had to be revised to Rs 39,224.09 crore in July 2005. The cost is now estimated to be more than Rs 45,000 crore. For exchange rate of 46 Rupees for every U.S dollar that translates to $4809 million, $8527 million & $9783 million respectively. So price of each HAL manufactured Su-30MKI has increased from $34.35 million in 2000, to $61 million in 2005, to finally $70 million currently, according to CAG's(Comptroller and Auditor General of India) estimation. Also now the exchange rate is over 50Rs. Do the math.
The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
Lets see how far they can reduce it. Besides didn't it cost near 3 digit million dollar figures?You do know that we will have Su 30s soon right? They will have the same composite/RAM changes as the Migs and don't need external fuel tanks unlike the Mig, which translates to a similar RCS as Migs with external payloads.
MiG-29K's RCS is now between 1-1.5m2, if regular MiG-29 RCS is taken to be 5m2. It is fair to expect MiG-35 with more composites may/will be lower than that.