sancho
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I cant believe you can say such a thing. sancho is one of the most knowledgeable indian members on this forum. He has the respect of a lot of members.
Oke i think we shouldnt accuse some one has trolling if he is not agreeing with your views... he has his own view and he puts the same in the form of proof... if you dont agree just counter it with your point....
Even I too had lot of heated discussion with him many times... just take what is valuable.. so far we have seen him never moved out of the topic...
Thanks guys, but it's not worth to make a big discussion out of it. Hhe might not liked that I corrected some of his points and that's why this is his reaction. I didn't felt the need to reply on it, just like I didn't on his earlier accusations which had gone too OT and to unnecessary flame games with Chinese members.
the main point is no one even trusted the DRDO capabilities to build LCA when the project comes up and then in the senctins comes up.....how could you say then india shouls have gone for co-developing and partner on LCA ...
The engine and radar developments had nothing to do with DRDO, but LRDE and GTRE. These are the 2 parts of the LCA program that failed and caused the delays and that was unnecessary as I explaind. The sanctions had their part, but bad planing and overestimating were the bigger problem!
For example, GTRE had no experience with engine developments and still they was chosen to develop Kaveri engine alone. Why not HAL that had experience with the licence productions of several Russian and western engines?
Why did they planed with Kaveri from the start, why not with a proven stop gap engine first?
Even Dassault fitted the proven GE 404 engine into Rafale prototypes, till M88 was ready! We could have integrated RD93 (single engine version of the RD33 that HAL produces in India), or the Snecma M53-P2 (engine of Mirage 2000), both safe and sanctionproof options that were even in operational service in IAF.
As you can see, there were better ways and good options available, but we wanted to do it alone and paid the price. Now 20 years later we have 2 different foreign engines for LCA and most likely and co-development for Kaveri engine, because we had to admit that we couldn't do it alone and the same can be said about MMR/AESA as well.