What about them?And what about Turkey and Israel?![]()
Considering that the Bk-117 has a good reputation with its operators, there is nothing that would deter the Turkish Health services from getting 3 helicopters or the Israeli MoD taking 1.
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What about them?And what about Turkey and Israel?![]()
Ecuador has a different opinion.
http://indianmilnews.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-air-forces-dhruv-helicopters-crash.htmlDo you expect serious after sale support from HAL, or any PSUs of India? These guys should stay away from exporting if they're not serious about it.
Tested in several different conditions, several different roles.
Even one of the first, if not the first with an EW suite as well. And probably the first attack gun ship inducted since MIs.
http://indianmilnews.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-air-forces-dhruv-helicopters-crash.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...or-crash-prone-Dhruv/articleshow/49425469.cms
The more laughable bit having to hire consultants from outside to tell the OEM why their product keeps crashing.
Sure, just dont call the MBB/BK-117 II anything like indigenous or whatever.If the problem is fixed, I dont see anything wrong with hiring who ever.
Sure, just dont call the MBB/BK-117 II anything like indigenous or whatever.
I have a question. Around the JF-17 airframe, there seem to be a lot of square and rectangle'ish segments, if these are metal, can they be swapped out for composite parts?Besides the composite materials, the JF-17 has everything that is required to match or best Tejas. The fellow has a tendency of parroting things without an iota of fact to them.
Regarding Tejas, I think @Oscar's point is really simple to understand. India had set the criteria for a functional 4th-gen lightweight multi-role fighter back in the early 1990s, and it had even managed to fly a prototype in 2001, and yet it is only inducting a serviceable system in 2016. That is a developmental period of 26 years!
Don't get me wrong, full credit to India for developing a sound industrial and R&D base in that timeframe, full credit, but should a program such as Tejas really have taken 26 years? What were the exact requirements being added to warrant continuous delays? It wasn't as if India was developing every single component and subsystem indigenously, it is still foreign-sourcing the radar, HMD/S, engine, and some of the munitions. India is a country with the capacity to pull in billions of dollars of high-tech imports, and it probably has a very high number of foreign vendors available to help it out if paid ... So, what happened? Could India have not separated the goal of building its general indigenous aviation capacity from pushing Tejas to fruition?
Does HAL has made any indigenous radar for Tejas that could replace existing Israel radar.??Whilst I'm skeptical (to say the least) about any talk of export interest for the LCA. The Israeli content is a non-issue as the Python can be replaced by the R-73E (already intergrated on the LCA) and the Derby with the R-77 (or Astra in the long term). Furthermore, Egypt presents an interesting scenerio because remember they have the Rafale now and with the Rafale coming to India also with a lot of industrial partnerships perhaps the Egyptians are thinking they can get the LCA with some complimentary features/components for their own Rafales (if the AASM is coming for the LCA maybe the DAMOCLES pod can be offered for export with the LCA in place of the LITENING LDP)?
Again, I am VERY skeptical but it would be interesting if HAL/MoD could think along these lines, perhaps marketing the LCA as the Rafale's "little brother" (like how the Mirage 2000 is employed by the FrAF) for all existing (and future) Rafale operators (Egypt, Qatar, Malaysia etc). The Indian market would naturally be the catalyst for this and there is certainly the scope to do this, what is/could be lacking is the vision.
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