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[sancho]

New LCA pics on the website:

Pre IOC Trials in Jamnagar and Goa - Tejas - India's Light Combat Aircraft

Calendar 2014 - Tejas - India's Light Combat Aircraft


I love these side by side views:

 

[Basel]

LCA is a good point defense plane as per its published specs and with Indian air defense and support air crafts like Mig-29 it will be very hard to handle it, only F-35 class fighter will be able to overcome all those obstacles with ease.

 

[PARIKRAMA]

lol.. don take me wrong.. but i love the sarcasm here...

LCA as point defense - True
Hard to handle by other birds - Not true
F35 point - Lol No F 35 will be in South East Asia unless sumthn comes up in a package deal with indian Navy IAC2 or later

The final Product OF LCA is not yet out.. so hold ur horses,.. its a beauty no doubt but making it a proper beast will require some more time.. yet we all have confidence that when the true potential is revealed even in MK1 or later planned MK2, we all will be happy to accept the finished product along with other benefits like solidifying the foundation of our nascent aircraft manufacturing industry and allied services..

 

[Basel]

@PARIKRAMA: if first part of your post refers to my post then its true that in South Asia Indian air defense is one of the best and any point defense air craft like LCA will be hard to handle even if u pit your Super Sukhois against it, because the support it will have available to it in a battle, LCA will not fight alone that makes it very difficult adversary to handle.

But if the same LCA is pitted against JF-17 over Pakistani skies then JF-17 will eat it because it will be playing on its home ground with all available support and LCA alone will be not match for it.

Conclusion: in today's advance net centric warfare environment wars / battles will not be won on single systems, and single high end system can be beaten by use of many moderate systems due to net centric warfare, even 5th gen stealth planes will not be used as single system in any future wars.

 

[sancho]

lol.. don take me wrong.. but i love the sarcasm here...

LCA as point defense - True
Hard to handle by other birds - Not true
F35 point - Lol No F 35 will be in South East Asia unless sumthn comes up in a package deal with indian Navy IAC2 or later

The final Product OF LCA is not yet out.. so hold ur horses,.. its a beauty no doubt but making it a proper beast will require some more time.. yet we all have confidence that when the true potential is revealed even in MK1 or later planned MK2, we all will be happy to accept the finished product along with other benefits like solidifying the foundation of our nascent aircraft manufacturing industry and allied services..

That only depends on what IAF really needs it for. It is the Mig 21 replacement and we know IAF has active passive BVR tactics which included Bisons and MKIs. If we think about the same tactics with LCA MK1, we will see that it already is a huge boost for IAF. The RCS of LCA is far lower than of the Bison, the EW and especially the passive sensors are much better. With data links and BVR missiles added, it will further improve the role and the tactics of IAF in air defence.
LCA will also replace Migs in light CAS roles and again, the current MK1 offers more than enough capability right now with precision strike capability. Lets hope that Helina missiles and lighter Sudarshan LGBs with twin pylons, will be developed and added fast, to make LCA even more useful in that role.
With SPICE 2000 and a SPICE 250 quadpack on the centerline, it even could be used for bunker strikes, or SEAD, but since IAF have even better fighters to do these roles, that might not have much importance. An LCA with Astra, (hopefully a Maitri WVR missile), Helina and Sudarshan would offer more than enough capability and by far more than the Migs or even Mirage 2000 offered during Kargil war.

 

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[Gessler]

@sancho

 

[Basel]

@sancho: nice post but things have change a lot after Kargil war in South Asia.

 

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[sancho]

@sancho: nice post but things have change a lot after Kargil war in South Asia.

And as I said, LCA offers MORE than those fighters offered back then!

 

[Basel]

@sancho: but still it will play same role of old Mig-21s have played since long.

 

[sancho]

@sancho: but still it will play same role of old Mig-21s have played since long.

Yes and no. Yes, because that was the aim as the replacement of the Mig 21, no since it will be able to do the same roles that Mig 21s, 27, as well as the Mirage 2000s, or Jags did back then, but far more effective with modern techs and capabilities. From air defence, air policing, escorts to CAS roles, it already is able to do it.

 

[Basel]

@sancho: means it will played same role what JF-17 is meant for PAF, because it will replace A-5s, F-7s & Mirages.

 

[Last Samuri]

Great pictures guys thanks

 

[rockstarIN]

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There are four bombs each, is it 200 kg each? as that station's max capacity is 800 k.g.

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