Indian Aircraft industry was much smaller at that time.
For Indians on PDF, negative ratings represent our capability man. We get a negative rating for bursting each bubble of you guys.
We have very good experience at least have courage to accept we developed good 4th Gen fighter jet with Chinese. PAC have good long experience of overhauling & maintaining the different aircrafts now we have experience of manufacturing fighter jet...no other nation except USA & Russia developing Jets alone even it is not cost effective (save China for fifth Gen fighters)...In future also we should go for J.V...just think if India instead of trying to develop jet alone and failed go for J.V the situation would be much better...even Tejas is not fully home grown, more then 70% parts imported...
I said I was not counting Marut for a specific reason. The world of aviation and aeronautical engineering went through a sea change after WW II. Turbo-fan replaced turbo-prop, hydraulic-mechanical controls were replaced by fly-by-wire avionics, aluminium body replaced by alloys and carbon-composit materials. On-board radars aid in target-seeking, on-board oxygen generator enable pilot to be air-borne for a long time etc. In short every country including US had to go back to drawing board forgetting what they had/ achieved in the past.
You see prototyping and first iteration is always made out of imported components. Only after validation and user-trials, the components & sub-systems inventory is finalised and mass-produced locally. Pakistan doesn't have a viable component/ ancillary industry for JF-17. Nor it is viable to manufacture this obsolete aircraft from grounds up. Pak should have tried to build capacity, bit by bit, like India over decades instead of jumpstarting with the help of China. China itself has not absorbed many high-end aircraft tech and depends upon Russia.
Wasn't the proposal to 'manufacture the F-16 in India' already on the table when India was negotiating the MMRCA contract with difference companies?
You'd be surprised how little control Modi actually has over military planning and acquisitions. His only real role is to accept or deny proposals based upon suggestions from his military advisers, much like Obama.
BREAKING: Pakistan row,India considers proposal to manufacture F-16 fighter jets under Make in india
If 8 jets can do this to India, what will an order of 24 jets do?
yeah i can guess the reasons for that since its the doval who holds the foreign policy these days, but those reasons would be same, Modi is just too unfit to handle all aspects of a statehood. He would be more of a puppet and easy to control y their military establishment.
It's 35% man.
And you guys get nightmare whenever these dreams come true.just like this one..LOL ..yeah right...,happy wet dreaming to you guys then..
if u r implying that f-16 is better then rafele,you are either blinded by nationalism or dont know much about aviation.Going by that logic first flight of F-22 was in 1997, damn Tejas must be held back for another 20 years since it's so ahead of it's time.
@ topic, as i said earlier, had the Americans agreed to the Indian demands ,,,, the MMRCA deal would have long been concluded on the F-16.....but the fan boys think, it never met IAF specifications......far from it. .... one day you may know the real story.
