India To Boost LCA Order; AF Questions Its Capabilities

[oproh]

Why india wants to buy those flying coffins, are they out of their minds? They shouldn't endanger the lives of their pilots just to boast about made in india. India needs to understand that their tejas is a failure and it is seen as a joke in the civilized world.

 

[Barrel-Bomba]

Why india wants to buy those flying coffins, are they out of their minds? They shouldn't endanger the lives of their pilots just to boast about made in india. India needs to understand that their tejas is a failure and it is seen as a joke in the civilized world.

 

[zebra7]

trust me sirji LCA wont be exported as of now first HAL and the private palyers roped in to manufacture its parts have to fullfil IAF & IN order onli then when indian designed and made AESA, EW suite & avionicks & wepons pakage are fully matured export caould be done niether USA nor israel would be happy to share there cutting edge(engine could be sourced from US though for export) tech for export to third party

Trust me LCA have a good potential to be exported in good number. ADA did the remarkable job in designing LCA, but the assembling of the avionics should be given to the HAL rather than ADA, because they can do this job quickly.

Thank you for your lecture but world is now result oriented and in case of LCA, whatever HAL was or is, Its fail to delivery it till date and LCA is still not in full production. END OF STORY

Thanks for your concern, but that was not the lecture, as a matter of fact, I took the two points from the article and quoted some of my wise country man. If you have anything to comment on those two points, you are welcome, even if you are critisizing the LCA program, but pls give the facts what makes you believe.


1. HAL have poor record of making quality product and poor time management in deliveries.

2. LCA design makes it difficult for the maintenance.

 

[ayesha.a]

IAF wants LCA Teja to be like Rafale in Mark I or even in Mark II. Pakistan inducted JF-17 when it could not even fire missiles. We continued to improve and upgraded the older JF-17 with new technologies. You cannot expect a product to have all the bells and whistles in the first version. I wish I could also make best Cheese cake in the first try but realistically it is not possible.

On that, you are absolutely right.

It is almost criminal that the IAF wants the very latest and greatest on the Tejas, while their pilots fly ancient migs in large numbers. The Tejas mark 1 is much more capable than at least 300 fighters currently in service. Logically, they ought to be grabbing the Tejas with both hands, instead of constantly complaining about falling squadron strength.

Consider this: The IAF wants an integrated jammer and IFR on mk1 - an internal jammer is not even present on the most cutting edge fighters the IAF has. Neither the MKI, nor the mig-29 or mirage 2K (pre upgrade) has that feature. (Not sure about the latter two, but the MKI certainly doesn't have that, and carries an external pod - which the Tejas can do too.) And yet, lack of an internal jammer was one of the "shortfalls" mentioned about the Tejas.

IMO, they should have inducted the Tejas Mk1 in 2010, and worked on incremental upgrades. They are meanwhile using taxpayers' money in dubious ways - upgrading each of the 25 year old mirages for more than the cost of a brand new Tejas.

Unless the IAF planners are really dumb, which is unlikely, there is some vested interest that is stifling the adoption of the Tejas.

 

[My-Analogous]

Trust me LCA have a good potential to be exported in good number. ADA did the remarkable job in designing LCA, but the assembling of the avionics should be given to the HAL rather than ADA, because they can do this job quickly.



Thanks for your concern, but that was not the lecture, as a matter of fact, I took the two points from the article and quoted some of my wise country man. If you have anything to comment on those two points, you are welcome, even if you are critisizing the LCA program, but pls give the facts what makes you believe.


1. HAL have poor record of making quality product and poor time management in deliveries.

2. LCA design makes it difficult for the maintenance.

Answer of point 1 from your own source
Boeing ends contract with HAL over ‘poor quality’ of production | The Financial Express
Quality issues with HAL products | Indian Defence News
HAL production under lens after Hawk trainer crash - The Times of India
Surprise: India’s New Fighter Jet Faces More Delays | The Diplomat
LCA programme: India's Rs 10,397 crore disaster may finally be handed over to the private sector - Firstpost
and many more if you want

And for point 2

Your question is not mature now and it need time and only time will tell that after LCA become operational.

 

[axisofevil]

As much as I don't particularly like the Tejas....its in our best interest to develop the platform. It will lead to further development and innovation. We discard the Marut and set our industry back by decades. The same can't be done now.