sancho
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he is a informed guy.
He might be informed, but as in the C17 issue recently, he propably is talking about old / total requirements. IAF will not buy 200 x LCAs, simply by the fact that it would take far too long to produce it. Even the initial 40 + 80 order is not expected to be available before 2022 and by a time, when the 126 MMRCAs could be in the final delivery stage, which means going for the optionals and inducting them at the same time as the LCA MK2 that are now on order makes more sense, then waiting longer just to add more LCAs that also are far less capable. And as I said before, in exactly that time IAF will also induct FGFA, Rustom H and maybe is even close to Aura and in the development of AMCA. LCA simply has the wrong timing now, which puts it in far too much competition and with far too less capability to justify that numbers. The total LCA procurements, including N-LCAs could be around 200 and maybe even the 2 x MK1 squads might be replaced with propper MK2 squads, but that still doesn't get it to 200 in IAF.