the patent filing reflects the overall R&D standard and spending. these are all simple facts that any 12 years old kid know in my country. building/designing modern aircrafts are
NOT easy for anyone as it just involves too many different aspects. when the
overall R&D is at some very limited capacity, how it could be possible to build high end aircraft?
LCA is a failure because after 25 years of R&D, it is still being "tested", this is very shameful for the people
who refuse to acknowledge this fact. You can check the air force history book of my country, so many projects have already failed, but they were just declared as failed, no string attached. We don't have any project running for 25 years and still being "tested".
Now let's
assume that you guys can successfully conclude this project with all current major difficulties fixed/solved/worked around in 1-2 years, so what? even in this best case (which will NEVER happen in real life), you get a
light combat aircraft which is far worse than JF-17 (about one generation gap in almost all aspects).
Now for the patent discussion again, I can honestly tell you - we had this discussion in China about 20-30 years ago when we got 100% shocked that a single Japanese/US company can produce more patents than we entire nation. However, a bold
however, no one talk in the manner that you just showed, we acknowledged the backwards (which is still the current case when compared with Japan/US) and we set young generation to get problem solved. No one trolling like what you just did.