satishkumarcsc
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Dear Satish Kumar,
You are correct in some way but what you said is the perception and story told by the US in the history books. When I was pursuing MSc in UK, I was friends with a German person who was pursuing PhD in Aero Eng. We book got into a discussion about aircrafts and F22s and F117 Nighthawks. He stopped me for a moment and digged out the old german book of aeronautics. I don't know if that was commercial book or may be some drawings of the first german stealth fighter aircraft. He told me the German perspective and he clearly stated that US blackmailed and threated Germany to abort the stealth project. But I guess you will believe what US will feed through its elaborate hard cover history books.
Another thing is, thanks for the link BTW, being an aero engineer doesn't make it easier to design an aircraft. You go and say to your MSc supervisor that you would like to design and build a UAV (not even an aircraft) for your dissertation project. He would laught at you. Even a tiny UAV has to be worked on by a team, one person dealing with aerodynamics, one with landing gear, one with avionics, one with wings (aerofoil mainly), one with tires, one with structure materials, blah blah blah....
You get the point...
I am not arguing with you or anyone else, I am a human and information that I have might be wrong, but you learn through time. And BTW you are a bit deviated in regards to twice the workload of the previous generation. I think you should check out the history of aviation. One example is A380 and B787, both were supposed to be competitors models however both represent completely different customers.
Hope the helps.
Well you are talking about the MAKO project which ran abrest with the F 117 project.
or the lampyridae project
but in the end it was Ufimtsev who started the research in diffraction of radiowaves against differrent surface shapes.
Well JF 17 is a great aircraft for PAF it can easily replace the Q5, Mirage III/V and the F-7 that are in your arsenal with added capability. All I wanted to tell was eventhough it suits your needs it cant be compared to something like the Typhoon, F 22 and the F 35 with is going to be the 'hi' end of the hi-lo mix in many countries for the next 2 decades. JF 17 is comparable to the T-50 and the LCA which will be replacing many light weight fighters in the coming decade eventhough I think both LCA and the T 50 have lost any relevance in their home country's force structures.