I'm a little confused with IOC, too. As you know, CAC has produced more than 48 J-10B for IOC test, and F-35 number is even larger; but for LCA, there is only a single digit number, maybe less than 4 for IOC test.
This piece of news has told us the timeline for FC-31 development:
2016: first prototype roll out(?)
2019: finalize the design
2022: IOC if it can find a launch customer before 2019
2025: FOC
@Deino any comment?
Another blindly propaganda from US. Saudi and UAE import more and wast more than Venezuela, and the King family is much richer than Chavez, but you ignore it. The only truth is: Chavez only takes the power for 16 years while Saudi for more than 60 years, thus Saudi can get much more revenue...
Chavez has done nothing wrong. He made his people share the benefit of high price oil for more than 10 years, which has never happened in the history of Venezuela, and will never happen when the right wing take the power.
The problem is Venezuela has nothing but oil and it is a non-competitive...
@mike2000 is back
If you are a so deeply hater of the left wing, why do not you drop all of your welfare supplied by UK government in favor of the capitalist
Indonesia has approved 89 billion Won for KF-X project, since Indonesia takes up 20% of the cost, so the total development fee is 400 million dollars. My question is this money spent on restudy or the first prototype?
I agree with you that it is not WS-15 but you argument is not correct, too. WS-15 is not necessarily tested on a IL-76, eg, WS-13 and minshan(possiblely WS-17) are not tested on IL-76
The news did not mention C28A at all.
And it only talks about potential buyer such as Egypt, Algeria and China, but we know selling this system to Egypt and China is impossilbe at all.
The reason is quite simple: there are different versions of EL/M-2032 with different antenna size and weight to be fitted in different fighter. So we can guess that FA-50 uses the light version with small size of antenna while F-16 heavy version with big size of antenna.