Another LCA v/s JF-17 thread in making. Its our plane we will do anything to make it competitive according to today's other planes.
We developed it, then the requirement changed they we start incorporating new techs. Is it so hard to get it?
If we would have completed it in time without considering the capabilities of planes that LCA has to encounter, we might have ended up having 3rd gen plane with no use. And same people like you will be laughing at LCA for being inferior.
Make up your mind. THink logically. How weapon's are made. Did we ask why haven't you built your own Frigate, SSBN, ACC, Attack Helicopters. Its about what doctrine you want to follow. How much self dependent you want to become?
You say Pakistan don't have any ambition of being regional power leave aside global power in near decades. But my dear friends, India has this ambition and to do so we have to build these things by our own. Just like China did? They wouldn't have got enough power to put US on back foot in SCS if they didn't have complexes to build their own planes, subs, ACC, frigates, destroyers.
Understand the entire dynamics rather than looking Tejas as a lost cause. How can we move on to UCAV if we can't have our homw made fighters. We don't want to be dependent on Russia and US, that's why we are taking steps just like China did. It will take time but when time frame of a nation is considered, few decades don't mean anything.
Do you even know foreign policies of few countries are drafted considering way ahead of just one decade. Same is with defense strategy.
Read more about it.
If war breaks out after 2015, we wcan produce as many LCA as we like at short notice and won't have to be dependent on other countries. If our engines are ready, then we will have clear edge on Pakistan's JF-17 as it uses russian engines.
Things of this magnitude can't always get in time. Even for US, who has built state of the art Raptor are having problems in oxygen related concerns and not to forget facing difficulties with JSF.
Even China is struggling with its own engines.
We want to be in league f US, Russia, UK, France, China......the UNSC members, that's our aim, and we need our own fighters as of now.
I can go on and on...but lets give yu a chance on asking more "logical" questions.