Cool dude.. you have got all the inner data... and the reality ... To understand LCA you have to first India.. to understand India you have to understand democracy...
Who said IAF is not willing to use it.. Have some commensense.. if IAF is not willing why development and testing is still going on?.. why MK-2 is proposed.. As far as Vietnam is consider we have to give them Mk-2 only.. it will have huge payload and great agility and super firepower.. If US...
We have to check whether the Arjun's weight can be reduced so that it can be deployed in North-East border... which is a vital important.. all the current heavy war machines can be placed on western border... it will be a steel wall ... but more importance is the North-East as well as in Kashmir...
Truth or not... we are not disagreeing with you.. This is internet and there are lot of onlookers here.. Lot of people here do have friends in DRDO.. but what ever we know we keep it with ourself
So the news is finally true?.. I guess Vietnam has got a monkey craft from Russia.. They may not have jammers or good radars... i guess thats where India is going to help.. in addition Vietnam uses the same craft like China... so there is no reason to be surprised with the result... as they get...
First of all RAF will not pay the development cost while buying the fighter because they have invested it.. That is the thin line you have to understand.. RAF will get at fly away price because the development cost is invested to developed it.. Secondly RAF is selling them to Oman and Not EADS...
Russia already doing it for cheap and is trust worthy.... giving $100 million dollars is not going to be much of an impact.. it is indeed for national security
First of all UK is selling there 3 year old to others not EADS... which means UK has already paid to EADS... and the report is saying it is a win-win situation because the orders they have placed will be diverted to Oman(which means new planes will go to RAF and older planes go to Oman).. so as...
Man... I will tell you business doesnt work that way.. You are giving a new business model ( a loss model)... If you telling about lifecycle cost which the government is considering the deciding factor.. Dassault will not be in a posistion to increase the lifecycle cost to cover the development...
Sancho... That is wrong to say if the product runs for 30-40 years the manufacture will get the money in return (this is not a bank interest scheme)... If you buy a product and you go in AMC... you will have resource and the money will also need in things like manufacturing , transportation etc...
While your JF-17 can keep our MKI at bay ... it is nothing interesting to say that JF-17 is more worthy that Mig-29 ....
while you people cant accept that Mig29 can track 10 target simultaneously and attack 4 of them simultaneously with a detection as far as 120 KM(while your JFT lacks...
why are you taking things so personal? chill what is supposed to happen will happen.. and this is not your style right?.. you are more technical person and you suit more in that kind of discussion... There is no need to take a dig with us... we have done nothing wrong ... and you haven't done...