@gslv mk3 : See this is the type of informative post you should be doing.... Stop posting all the RAW conspiracy PDFs about how "we" build helicopters and airplanes. Everyone know, this is all done in china and we just publish pictures. And your name is just as much a shame, so many ppl shitting outside and you want to discuss logic and facts !! How dare you. We you and me are just lowly Hindu. Windy here is the superior to us bcoz he is a Pakistani and just by being one he is always right. Just try an absorb the awesome number of facts provided by windy.
When Pakistanis say everything is Imported, then every thing is imported; LCA failure never will fly, then LCA is a failure and never will fly, you don't argue. You go ahead and scrape bottom of the barrel to hunt news which support them. Like this:-
The LCA Tejas is being build by India’s own Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). Despite the number prototypes and pre-production examples slowly coming to 20 aircraft, the problems with the future combat jet continue.
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“LCA Mark-I, which achieved Initial Operational Clearance in December 2013 has significant shortfalls as a result of which it will have reduced operational capabilities and reduced survivability, thereby limiting its operational employability when inducted into IAF squadrons. LCA Mark-I does not meet the standards. The deficiencies are now expected to be met in LCA Mark-II by December 2018,” according to a CAG report released this week. This will mean that combat readiness can be expected in January 2019 at the earliest.
One of the significant problems is the electronic self protection suite, like HAL not having been able yet to construct the jammer into the plane. Moreover, HAL needs to incorporate more foreign bought elements, since Indian industries failed to develop a well-functioning engine, radar and information display systems for the pilot.
Despite claims by HAL that the Tejas is functioning up to 70 percent of what it has been promised to do, the CAG puts that percentage on a mere 35 percent.
Problems with the Tejas have resulted in the Indian Air Force having to keep its aging fleets of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s, Mirage fighters and Jaguar attack jets longer in service, with an increasing cost for maintenance and overhaul.
Despite all criticism, HAL, the
Indian Air Force and the
Indian Navysay to be confident that in due course the Tejas will be a robust part of the Asian nation’s defence and strike capabilities.
[emoji767] 2015 Airheadsfly.com editor Marcel Burger
Featured image (top): One of the limited production examples of the HAL LCA Tejas. (Image [emoji767] Aeronautical Development Agency, Ministry of Defence, India)
