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It is supposed to be an indigenious effort, not a JV....why India is not taking Israeli assistance for tejas?
why India is not taking Israeli assistance for tejas?
why India is not taking Israeli assistance for tejas?
Its is really a small light combat air craft...even smaller than Mig-21s
Good question. First of all India was not pro israel till 2000
Indo-Israel relation: India was pro Palestine for 5 decades after independence. It was Bajpai-Jacob-Jaswant who shifted the trend. Our enemy was same (Terrorists) so our alliance was obvious.
When LCA project was initiated (1993) We had no relation with Israel. We took assistance from USA for FBW (our engineers were working at LM). After Pokhran II the Americans kick us out of there laboratory and they took all of our work. We started from scracth in India. Similarly our ejection seat was from martine becker (British), we made our own ejection seat and get certified by Martine Becker.
Though LCA is indigenous, we take help from french (on design) and Israeli (on avionics and Electronic equipment).
Bolded parts are factually wrong...First our relations with Israel started in 91...That is the time when we started our diplomatic relations with them...Relations with israel were very good even prior ot 2000 and in fact they provide the much needed help in form of LGB during kargil(1999)...
Now as far as why they were not involved - You are partially right...In 1993 we were just cozying up with them...So it is but obvious that including them was not feasible at that time...Secondly it was not a JV anyways and we wanted to built everything on our own....
Though LCA is indigenous, we take help from french (on design) and Israeli (on avionics and Electronic equipment).
That french helped in LCA design is one of the biggest myths; I feel!
Some say they were consulted during the design stage, but it's hard to say if that is true, or if it's just another myth based on the so called similarity to Mirage 2000.
Fact is EADS was consulted in the later stage for some changes to fix problems, but I can't tell for which exactly, although it might be sure that "some" French could have been involved there, since EADS is partialy French.
even if we took help then whats the problem i dont understand.