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They are not Su 33s, but navalised J11Bs, big difference! And we all know that IN prefered naval MKIs too, they just had no option. So more than a decade and even after that PLAN is not standing at the level they are today. Naval stealth fighters, EMALS and fixedwing AEW already under...

Not surprising, they did exceptionally well in all disaster relief operations in the recent years, but the media prefers to highlight C130s and C17s, while it's Indian and Russian helicopters that do the main job! Shiv Aroor even dared to highlight the CH47 after Uttarakhand, although it's not...

Of course, the logic behind the numbers is correct, the problem is only, that USN carriers operates far more fighters at once and also more capable once, which can take on PLAN carriers too. We need Vikramaditya and IAC1 together to equal the Lianoing and still are in disadvantage, because of...

You are missing 2 important points! 1) IAF not IN is responsible for shore based maritime patrol, that's why Mig 29UPG, Jaguar IM and MKI squads will cover the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal area and not IN's Mig 29Ks. 2) You can only operate a specific number of fighters on a carrier, INS...

Exactly and Reliance as most privat industry players is driven by making profits, no matter for what part they produce. The long term gain for Indian aviation, or future Indian developments has no priority and that's divides offset production or assembling of kits, which our industry had done...

IN had the luxury of not having a real opponent so far, but that is changing rapidly, with PLAN reaching into the IOR. But to fight that threat, Migs, NLCAs won't help. To remain in control, we had to ramp up capability and not only numbers! long range ASW capability must have the highest...

None, all they offer is co production, so basically outsourcing to reduce costs. Proper R&D or joint developments of important stuff is not on the table. We might have to wait til Hillary is in office to get more out of the Indo - US relation.

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True, but that's not going to happen, since IAF wants LCA, just in a useful manner, not just for the pride to have an Indian fighter. They want to use it in wars, not just and air shows. That's why they demand from the industry, to deliver according to the requirements and sooner or latter that...

Would be, but they are obviously not interested in real partnerships with India and want to keep us as an export customer, especially Dassault! The Brits on the other side, have offered a partnership in the EF consortium and for future developments from the start and if we would had played it...

That's the crucial difference, licence production under critical ToT of parts produced in India, or assembling kits in India with basic ToT of parts produced abroad. Under the original MMRCA tender, proper licence production is demanded and Reliance will cover the lack of know how, by using...

Production cost + training, initial spares and support, as well as development costs that will be added to exports.

Of cours not, but the J10 is the lowest threat potential, so we need a fighter that can at least counter it, if not more and LCA MK1 certainly is not able to do that. But MMRCA is about more than just a fighter, since the industrial side had an equally important role. So we pay for the mix of...

1) replace 2 single role squads with 1 multi role squad => you can do the same with less numbers 2) add more MKIs or Pak Fa off the shelf from Russian lines => fighters we already have or will have in the fleet 3) finish MMRCA and get more of them off the shelf too The squadron number myth is...

And I am the last person that woudn't agree to that, that's why I say that the foreign visits and are mainly huge PR campaigns and well done for that specific purpose, but at the end of the day, none of them have changed anything substancially for India. The best improvements are the actual...

The same misconception, that I just explained to Yeti. It doesn't matter what fighter will be replaced, because that isn't the benchmark for LCA. The benchmark are similar fighters of the same generation and in our case also what kind of fighters it has to counter! By 2020 we will see plenty of...

IMO DRDO doesn't even know what project management is, so it's not just improving, but getting a base first! :angry: And the Mig 21 comparison is a common misconception, because LCA was meant to replace it in the light class low end field of the fleet, but not with the Mig 21 performance and...

If you want to fill a gap, you buy a fighter that is fast to get and to induct. Neither MMRCAs nor LCA MK1 fulfill the latter, since they are new fighters, which IAF needs to gain operational experience first, before they can properly use it. So the only gap filler today are MKIs, Mirage 2000-5s...

It means, that a proper IRST offers advantages in this specific field, over the EOTS system of the F35 with some IRST modes. The EW suit EODAS is a different matter and would be compared to other EW suits like SPECTRA of the Rafale, DASS of the EF or the coming Himalaya EW suit of the Pak Fa...

Well there is one difference, the name! The official policy is still called "Buy and Make Indian", created under the former MoD, but today you simply call everything "Make in India" that has remotly to do with production in India and you can sell it as something new. :rolleyes: Foreign N-LUH...