FOREIGN FIGHTER JETS AREN'T BETTER THAN ALL-INDIAN TEJAS, PERIOD

[khail007]

IMO, every product has pros and cons; success of the products depends upon the specific use of it in the given environment/condition by the end user.
Tejas is also vulnerable to such conditions - it's success or failure depends upon the use of it by IAF. So let IAF decide it; just wait and watch. Definitely it will be suitable for some specific role/slot.

 

[faithfulguy]

The IAF is wrong

Common street idiot, fan boys are right


How can the indian military reject the Desert Ferrari Arjun and Tejas

Its all the corrupt babus and presstitues I tell ya!

LOL. To compare F-16 and Tejas shows the credibility of this article.

 

[Papa Dragon]

IMO, every product has pros and cons; success of the products depends upon the specific use of it in the given environment/condition by the end user.
Tejas is also vulnerable to such conditions - it's success or failure depends upon the use of it by IAF. So let IAF decide it; just wait and watch. Definitely it will be suitable for some specific role/slot.

IAF's top brass is way more corrupt than what the common man knows and with the availability of various options from different countries and each one of them trying to lure IAF's top brass with kickbacks, commissions, honey traps and a range of other goodies, they are bound to be corrupt and will kill any indigenous project in favor of kickbacks and that is what happened so far.

The same applies for IA too, why do you think Arjun has a limited order even after out-performing T90s when they were pitted against each other in comparison trails! and eventually IA came up with unreasonable claims to modify Arjun which they know wouldn't be possible anytime soon and they could demand for more T-90s or foreign tanks just like how they recently floated the FRCV tender

 

[Raider 21]

The article refers to the F-16 as a "museum piece", a "wretched old antique".

All the F-16 production lines are closing down, only India can save it by making a really big order.

Anything that is not in their inventory and that is being flown by their neighbour to the west will be referred to that. It burns the author, to hype up a major delayed aircraft program and then have it compared to a proven warplane with a great combat record.....the LCA has had input from UK, US, France and Russia yet it started to enter service recently.

According to the written article above and the one below, it seems HAL and the IAF are confused on what to do.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...g-21-fighter-planes-ajit-doval/1/1086425.html