Hypocrisy at its best. So if J-7E with redesigned Delta wings, different lining of gun, different engine with more thrust, New avionics which did not even existed in Mig-21F, new radar is still in your part of the world of denial a reverse engineered product while SLV-3 which is almost the same as Scout Missile in design and in cooperates French German systems rocket technologies etc is wtill a Indian "indigenous" product? lol
Looks like you are just having some hard time accepting something that is beyond the acceptance of indian ego.
F-7E is one model in a long series of F-7s preceding its development. F-7E didn’t just come into being out from vacuum. The original F-7 was a licensed/reverse engineered product. Incremental development on this F-7, ultimately resulted in F-7E and many other models after it. I will repeat what I had said earlier. The refinements like redesigned wing or HOTAS etc. are all indigenous, as long as these refinements are themselves not reverse engineered or stolen. But the basic framework, within which these refinements are made, is still F-7 and it being a copy of MiG-21, F-7E is still a copy of MiG 21, with Chinese bells and whistles.
Anyway, you can’t just pick a model number at random and compare it to some other older models and claim it to be different. You can’t even compare between older and newer models within the same family. MiG 21 ‘Bison’ can’t be compared to MiG 21F, F-16 Block 1 can’t be compared to F-16 Block 60 for obvious reasons. Here you are comparing MiG 21 circa 1960s to F-7 circa 90s. If a comparison has to be made then compare F-7, the original and first in the long line of F-7s, to MiG-21F from which it was copied. Comparing F-7E to MiG-21F is like comparing PSLV-XL to Scout.
Now compare this to the birth and growth of SLV-3. No Scout was sold to India to be license produced. No Scout was ever reverse engineered by India. No Scout ‘design’ or technology was ever transferred beyond what was already available to every other country (and even then only ‘technical reports’ on these designs were transferred). Unlike F-7E which was a result of series of developmental work on a reverse engineered plane and numerous other models preceded it, SLV-3 was in fact the first in the series of other SLVs like ASLV, PSLV and GSLV.
I had remarked in an earlier post (now deleted by a hyperactive mod) that SLV-3 is an amalgam of various technologies gleaned from a variety of countries. However, it was an indigenous effort that had wedded these technologies to each other and also to indigenously developed systems. The rocket body, propellants and various engine components were produced indigenously through indigenous R & D. India did receive generous helping hand from various countries. But that doesn’t take away the fact that it was an indigenous effort that had brought into life, something tangible like SLV-3 out of something abstract like limited experience in building and shooting sounding rockets and general understanding and knowledge about satellite launch vehicles and its various sub-systems. It is this toil involved in the journey from the abstract to the tangible, which makes SLV-3 indigenous.
Comprende?
First you tell me how is J-7E a reverse engineered product when the design is not the same, avionics, radar are not the same, engine performance is not the same, flying performance is not the same? And then tell me how is SLV-3 a indian "indigenous" product when the design is almost the same, guidance systems, all electronic inboard and engines are European mostly French and German origin?
F-7E itself is not a reverse engineered product. It is a legacy product, resulting from developmental work on a reverse engineered product. Had there been no F-7, there wouldn’t have been any F-7E. Had there been no MiG-21, there wouldn’t have been any F-7. Now apply this test on SLV-3. Can you honestly say that had there been no Scout there wouldn’t have been any SLV-3?
Again, it is the ‘almost same’ part that I am trying to figure out and asking you repeatedly to explain. Which part is same as Scout. Yes SLV-3 visually resembles Scout. Yes it is a long narrow tube, just like Scout, filled with a payload at the top, propellant in the middle and motor at the end. Yes, it has four stages just like Scout. And, yes both use solid fuel. What else is similar? Instead of such ballpark similarities can you please narrow down the similarities to specific system/sub-system etc.
Funny part is that you have gone from ‘100% copy’ to ‘different’ then back to ‘copy’ to ‘almost same’. Now decide what it is and stick with it already.
It only proves that you are still in denial. SLV-3 is not Indian "indigenous" R&D product.
Basically J-7E is more "chinese" then SLV-3 is indian.
OK. If you say so.