Hopefully PAKFA gets the stamp and the signatures. With PAKFA completed its flight tests, may be one of these these companies are bidding to manufacture or assemble it in India.
Exactly.
Unfortunately India can't escape it. We can't match chinese build up with gun to gun. They have similar access to Russian tech as we do so we got no choice but to rely on western tech to get an advantage until we become self reliable. Which requires in house competition driven private...
Include Russia in that list also. The level of involvement of Indian PSU's in PAKFA tells a lot.
What are you going to do with TOT when the institutions we've got are not capable of absorbing it. Rafale TOT saga is still fresh. Dassault clearly told us that PSU's are in no position to...
I would say scrap AMCA on the whole as there is no such thing as "medium" predefined in a project of this class.
Put a RFI for a 5th gen jet in numbers required for both Airforce and Naval versions with Make in India condition. Let them compete, collaborate for it.
We are already getting ready to be dependent on US. Take example of GE engines, as we stand today, two of our important projects are to be dependent on GE engines.
In any future major fighter acquisition, naval version has to be considered as well, be it Rafales or F18's.
NEW DELHI, DEC.12, 2015: American aerospace major Boeing Company has offered to shift its F/A-18 Super Hornet combat plane assembly line to India if given an assurance that 200 of these jets would be ordered for the Indian armed forces, Arming India has learnt from informed sources.
This is...
My maths sucks.
Well in that case, in three years it might go upto 750% then what, keeping resilience in mind ? :undecided:
Which makes it even more important for pakistan to legitimise and increase trade with India.
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan’s external debt is projected to grow to a whopping $90 billion in the next four years and the country will need $20 billion a year just to meet its external financing requirements amid concerns that all constitutional arrangements put in place to manage debt have become...
Interesting.
For an example a ride of 2 hr from punjab to Delhi which is taking bloody 8 hr plus would definately will be a hit if priced between 3000 to 3500 Rs.
Fate of GE F414 is bright as they should be getting uprated by GE and DRDO to EPE standard.
The thing is why it wasn't chosen before would be interesting.