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The LCA by all accounts is a 4th generation aircraft. As regards two decades- India is trying to build the maximum amount inhouse, including its turbofan - these are not idle tasks- its taken China several decades of toil to clear low rate production of engines (refer JDW). Coming to the...

The point, as subtle as it may be, is that the LCA has developed an ancillary industry that already makes a load of stuff, for which the wheel need not be reinvented. Stay off the juvenile insults please. That merely indicates the paucity of your arguementation. More politics. Do you...

True, but Iran vs Pakistan is an apples to oranges exercise. Iran, thanks to the Shah received far more in manufacturing abilities than most western countries at the time, and it has expanded on its local programs to a far greater extent than most give it credit for. Pak is license producing...

Again please specify the exact work provided. I have looked through my fairly decent collection of military journals, all sorts of links and stuff- I am as of yet unable to come up with any exact contribution in terms of avionics to the JF-17 from the Pak side. The EW suite for the JF-17 per a...

The Weapon Locating Radar is currently being trialled- the Army has not given up on it. Nor has the Army given up on the Arjun, despite all the problems that it faced. The current production batch once cleared can lead to more orders. It would be incorrect to presume that every article...

please specify the pakistani avionics used on the thunder and the help provided to the j-10. thanks.

Thanks for the information, it seems quite similar to what the Indians did for the Bison program, in terms of design customization for their requirements. What I was trying to say was that the work tho' remains majorly OEM intensive, and the customer does not partake in ab-initio R&D. You...

You would be mistaken. Indian MiG-29s have new RWRs and access to the Elta 8222 SPJ, arguably one of the best SPJs in the business nowadays. IAF Mirage 2000s have modern RWRs and have been seen with Remora SPJ's.

The JF-17 is a license production program...dont see much there from Pak in R&D. Blain I agree about costs, 200 aircraft are impossible, 100-120much more reasonable.

Blain Recent reports have suggested that the Indian deal could be for upto 15 Billion USD. With that in mind, and the 17 Billion figure for a 25 year Life cycle + unit costs, the Indians could play around with the numbers and still get some 4-5 Squadrons for 15 Billion USD with lower years...

The engine deal is being signed because the MiG-29s engines are reaching the end of their service life. The original ones supplied by the Russians were incredibly shitty, leading to frequent overhaul in Russia and at HAL. Now it just makes more sense to replace them. I think that people are...

You are mistaken and let me tell you why. The Bisons may have been nominally ready five years back, but series delivery has only been going on for the past three years. In the meanwhile, the systems have gone through further refinement in Indian service, only after which the agreements for...

Teething problems lead to serviceability issue. And the Bisons are being inducted now, whatever made you think that they were inducted ten years back?

Israel and India seem to be going great blazes: Codeveloping EW for LCA Manufacturing IMI Cargo, APAMs and 125mm rounds in India Codeveloping the Barak-NG extended SAM Other deals mentioned include the LORA for the Indian Army for an equivalent to the ATACMS

I am personally aware of more T-84s being negotiated with Ukraine! The Malyshev people were very eager to get their hands on a contract for all the transmissions and engines..

Odds or not, the PA was outfought in 71, and its leadership behaved disgracefully. "Victory has many fathers, defeat is an orphan", rather many excuses! Read the Hamoodur Rehman report to get an idea of how the PA in 71 folded up.

How are they confused? Note this is a multivendor deal. So obviously they will have the following compete: MiG-35 EF Rafale F/A-18 E/F F-16 Block 60 onwards Gripen If anything, they are being sensible.

Teething problems are true for the induction of any complex weapons system, and serviceability ramps up with the induction of maint. and overahul facilities, and greater stabilized processes available at the squadron level (as compared to interim main. procedures). Individual squadrons are...

Your understanding of BVR is simplistic if you are assuming its only for kills. No. BVR is about dissuassion as well. If you are an escort group, escorting three strikers into a mission, and you are locked upon, & cannot break the same, then the mission could be scrubbed. Thats a mission kill...

The PA performance in 71 was a disgrace by any standards. Yes, but the Saudis have improved too. Underrating all their forces is being complacent.