Flying Soon! LCA NLP-1

[AADHAAR]

With steam catapults on the AC and a 12 degree ski jump, you don't need an F 414 engine for TO!

Cheers!

I don't think, the "ski-jump" is the main problem.

The main problem is "arrested-recovery" .... and within that recovery phase .... the "controlled crash".

You may note that naval aircraft don't "land" on an aircraft carrier but are "crashed" on the deck .... only that it is a "controlled crash".

Imagine a aircraft coming down as a thud and hitting the ground ..... the landing gears have to absorb the shock ... and the airframe .... and indeed each and every component should be able to withstand the impact.

Naval Tejas has a lot of value for us.. given the number of aircraft carriers in the pipeline.

I wonder if naval Tejas could take on an individual payload of atleast 1 Brahmos (700 kg weight)... if so, it will be really really useful.

Tejas has a roundtrip range of atleast 600-800 km ... add to it 300 km range of Brahmos.

Brahmos on naval Tejas would enhance the range of the deadly Brahmos to 1000 kms !!!!!

2-3 Brahmos hitting a chinese surface ship would be sufficient to sink it ... while our aircraft carriers are 1000 kms away.. considerably far away from any counter attack.

perhaps, 10 Brahmos hits on a US supercarrier ... would doom it too. Off course, if we ever need to hit a US super carrier, we will be worrying about many other things ... than the fate of the super carrier.

 

[sancho]

F16 is MRCA (Medium role combat aircraft) while Tejas is LCA (Light combat aircraft). In defense technology size matters (sometime). F16 can incorporate more avionics/electronics suite/better radar/ better weapon.

While due to size limitation LCA can not. In similar generation (F16B/C, LCA both 4th gen and F16 BLK52-60,LCA MKII 4.5 Gen) bigger is better. F16 is undoubtedly better than LCA.

Not really, LCA is a 4th gen fighter just like F16 Block 52 as well, with similar techs and weapons, the difference is only the weight class. LCA MK2 with increased weightclass could have been fielded into MMRCA as well, because it will be a 4.5 generation fighter based on techs and medium class based on weight, just like the F16 Block 60.