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[tallboy123]

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[sancho]

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That's a really interesting article and the part about radar and engine development you mentioned, once again shows, that the whole development suffered from bad planing:

But the ambition to develop a complex jet engine and equally difficult Multi-Mode Radar (MMR) led to delays. Even now, Tejas flies with a US-made engine and an Israeli radar.
Says Rajkumar: “It was an absurd managerial decision to give the task of developing a jet engine to GTRE [Gas Turbine Research Establishment] and radar development to HAL Hyderabad. They never had any experience of doing such complex work. The only organisation that could have developed the radar was LRDE [Electronics and Radar Development Establishment] and the HAL Engine Division in Bangalore, which had the experience of developing engines. Today, with the benefit of hindsight, we can say the decisions were wrong, though we cannot blame anyone.”

As I often said, we didn't had the experience and know how to develop a radar and engine on our own, HAL had experience in licence production of foreign engine, but if I'm not wrong, they never developed an own engine as well. That's why we had to chose other engine, or radars as a stop gap and get co-development partners from the start, just like other countries did it as well.
I disagree with the author, because we must blame somebody for this bad planing and management, to learn from it and make it better the next time. Ignoring them because of pride that LCA now is close to IOC won't help and we already can see the same mistakes again at AMCA.

 

[angeldemon_007]

@ AMCA
Is it possible these designs are for LCA mkII ?//
@ sancho
Is it like, that nobody reads what i write, unless its a reply to someone ??/
Has anybody checked what i wrote on the previous page ?//

 

[AMCA]

@ AMCA
Is it possible these designs are for LCA mkII ?//

Well No, those were the early designs With a Traditional Delta Wing and Canards to Increase the maneuverability but the RCS of the Aircraft Increases too, hence they Designed a Cranked delta Wing along With a Complimentary fuselage To Increase its Super maneuverability Without Increasing the RCS of the Aircraft, Besides we have a Potent Jammer

 

[doctor_who]

after reading the speedat which news are comign from china about j-20,

lca sound like a junk box, because thats where it will be needed if the requirment arise.

even with low quality chinese engg. lca sound like ages behind Chinese force.

it got so delayed that , the real charm is all gone , now its just fan boy fantasy for home country thats making em all celebrate.

 

[AMCA]

after reading the speedat which news are comign from china about j-20,

lca sound like a junk box, because thats where it will be needed if the requirment arise.

even with low quality chinese engg. lca sound like ages behind Chinese force.

it got so delayed that , the real charm is all gone , now its just fan boy fantasy for home country thats making em all celebrate.

Clap Clap!!! Wake Up..... Its Just a Prototype... FGFA is Coming our way too.... So dont worry, Concnetrate on Indigenous technologies, Implement on LCA , Do you know for ALH Dhruv took 10 years while the LCH only took 4.... The first project is always tough and a challenge

 

[luckyyy]

after reading the speedat which news are comign from china about j-20,

lca sound like a junk box, because thats where it will be needed if the requirment arise.

even with low quality chinese engg. lca sound like ages behind Chinese force.

it got so delayed that , the real charm is all gone , now its just fan boy fantasy for home country thats making em all celebrate.

ok , i am one of the fanboy of LCA , LCA making me celebrate , yes & ofcourse , and this celebration is here to stay for next 35 years...

 

[marcos98]

Naval Tejas NP-1 to have its first flight by March : DRDO

SOURCE : IDRW NEWS NETWORK

Dr. Prahlada DRDO’s chief controller in an interview has said that ADE is gearing up for the first flight of Naval Tejas Prototype NP-1 by March this year , Original plans were to have the first flight by end of 2010 but it has been delayed to ensure that all critical new technology which will be integrated in Naval Tejas goes through smoothly in ground test phase .

NP-1 was rolled out in great roll out ceremony which was held in July last year in presence of Defense Minister A.K. Antony which was also attended by high ranking officials from Air force , Navy and DRDO . Dr. Prahlada also told that delay by 3 or 4 months will not have major impact on the whole Naval Tejas Project .

Currently a Special runway development is under way in Indian Navy’s air base in INS Hansa , this runway which will be mock a aircraft carrier runway deck will be used to test Naval Tejas and also future pilots of Navy that includes current fleet of BAe Hawk AJT , Mig-29k , N Tejas and new Multi role aircraft to be acquired soon by Indian Navy for the second and third indigenous aircraft carrier .

 

[AMCA]

No Hurry for Naval LCA as Our AC's will not be ready before 2014, so Let it take time, no probs at all.... Eagerly waiting to see the NP-1 fly though...

 

[jha]

Watch this video and press the button in the right corner if you like it..

 

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[sudhir007]

The Hindu : NATIONAL / TAMIL NADU : Aircraft Operating Centre at Sulur

The Aircraft Operating Centre with 18 ‘Tejas,' Light Combat Aircrafts will start functioning from Sulur (Coimbatore) Airport from June, said R. Swaminathan, Project Director, Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore. Talking to reporters on the sidelines after inaugurating a symposium at Thiagarajar Polytechnic College here on Wednesday, Mr. Swaminathan said that the next centre would be at Tuticorin. “We have manufactured 48 aircraft and these piloted aircraft are equal to F16, F18 and MiG 21,” he said.

 

[gowthamraj]

^ what mig-21

Or he mistakenly said mig-29 like this