Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) at Aero India: Single or Twin Seat?

[kurup]

If AMCA could come out that fast as you said then LCA will be thrown into tradh bin in no time.

LCA is even cheaper, why now?

So are you going to throw J10 in dust bin because J31 is being developed.

Take J31 for example, we build the prototype first before we exhibit the model of it on Zhuhai airshow. DRDO is just the other way around, which shows you something without grasp in hand let Indian fellows wait for another decades and finding any possible excuse elaborating the delay.
This kind of stuff is really laughable.

In china , success and failures are not released publically because the party doesnot feel accountable to the people .

In India , it is direct opposite . Whether success or failures , the news will be published because the govt is accountable to the people.

Some will laugh about the idea , some will say it is part of their right to freedom.

 

[kurup]

 

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[Jayanta]

DRDO cannot even make a good card board model...the Fin with no LE sweep is an outrage.Surely someone must have cared to see the fin of the Raptor/ F35/PKFA. This is the work of someone who does it for pay and not passion.! Why? All our top people are chosen for “high administrative abilities” and not for “high technical flair” . So we have large sound Organizations but not necessarily excellent aeroplanes. Elsewhere the pamper the Engineers-even the prickly ones- just as we pamper Sachin who gets the runs. The team manager carries the water so that the troops can stay on the firing line!

The sad point is for this model to have been made it must have been sanctioned at a fairly high level- say G at least. No one saw the gross errors and pitfalls in the shape- there are several .The model must have had the Western aero community quietly laughing up its sleeves. The danger is that shoddy project work leads to bad concepts lurking in the programme and they can be the devil to iron out later. In one’s more cynical moments one is tempted to think that perhaps that is the Original objective.