Parrikar working on ” Plan B ” for MMRCA?

[sancho]

Don't know why IAF suddenly wants tejas at an accelerated rate

And still saying For more orders..

First of all, it's just another faulty IDRW analysis, which gets to the wrong conclusions (FGFA has nothing to do with MMRCA, not even Parrikar says that, since his alternative are additional MKIs).
Secondly, IAF does not want more LCA's, but there were reports about an additional production line, to be less dependent on HAL as a sole supplier. So instead of 16 per year from HAL alone, 8 + 8 from HAL and a privat player. That's however nonsense from an industrial point of view, since the production lines would not be cost effective.
The article also doesn't get it, that the Mig 21 replacement is splitted between LCA and MMRCA, which also will be produced at the same time. So there is no requirement for the mythical 400 LCAs, nor do we need a 2nd LCA production line to keep our numbers, since we will produce LCA MK2, MMRCA and FGFA pretty much at the same time, with the possibility to add AMCA above.

 

[he-man]

since we will produce LCA MK2, MMRCA and FGFA pretty much at the same time, with the possibility to add AMCA above.

And where will the money come from??
No lca mk2 prototype till now
Not even foc for mk1

Parrikar says that, since his alternative are additional MKIs

Which is even more stupid as super mki's will cost almost same as pakfa so why not get stage 1 pakfa which will be better than super mki in everything??Russia is already gonna start production next year.

Of course if mmrca is cancelled ,not otherwise.

 

[About.to.be.banned]

yall don't want this.

The problem with ordering F-18 now is that since Tejas is using American engines, selection of F-18 in MMRCA would make more than half of IAF dependent on US, hence prone to sanction.Also most probable selection of F-18SH or F-35C for Naval carrier would deepen dependence on US beyond strategic comfort level of many.

India always had an unstated policy of not having overwhelming dependence on any one country. Even during cold war we had Jaguars and Harriers in our Soviet hardware dominant fleet.