With all that stuff ?? how ??
Martin Baker Ejection Seats -- Most prefer the reliable ejection seat, and Martin Baker have the decades of experience and most important the reliability. However India is developing its own Ejection Seats, and due to its nature of reliability, and zero failure and testing phase which includes the long rail track to mimic the supersonic speed at which operates, I won't be surprise if it take decades for DRDO.
LCA Air Frame Designed by Dassault -- Now who the hell is the IDIOT who thinks so, and if any one thinks so, pls provide the source for that. LCA air frame was designed by ADA with the CFD modelling technique and the the ip rights and the aerodynamic data and the wind tunnel data is with the ADA. The role of the Dassault was they are the one who did audit/verification the project definition which is a standard procedure which is done by a reliable and experience OEM and Dassault have Decades of experience in designing of the fighter planes.
There are couple of idiots who think that LCA since have the Delta design, so it is the copy of the Mirrage 2000, for those people it was from the start why ADA went for the tailless compound Delta platform, and keep on developing FBW, FADEEC, Composite, Kaveri because
1. No Engine was available of the required flat rating.
2. Small size required so that MIG-21 despenser facility could be used.
3. FBW and FADEEC and composite was must other wise it won't be able to meed the IAF ASR of high altitude test in Leh with full load, short take off and landing capability.
F-404INS Engine India is not the first country who is using foriegn engine e.g SAAB Gripen, actually in the global world manufacturing each and every component is idiotic thing just like Boeing and Airbus is manufacturing 747 and 320 with more than 40,000 subcontractors all around the world.
Kaveri program did give us lot of experience in the turbo fan engine development and it was delinked from the LCA program. The next avataar of LCA Tejas MK-2 will have F-414IN engine and most probably with TVC whose TVC nossle is available from US or Euro OEM.
EL/M-2052 -- Well you might not be full aware of all the facts that ELTA have offered to codeveloped the next upgraded AESA radar. and not to mentioned the UTTAM AESA Radar Development program, and India is working on AESA from 90's and EL/M-2052 and Python and Derby are for the time being till Uttam and Astra MK-2 is developed. Now why Astra MK-2 would be so important, it is because Astra MK-2 could be fired in buddy mode aka it could use other aircraft FCR Radar say e.g Su-30 MKI huge radar, keeping its own radar on silent and its small size and low RCS to close the distance from the enemy.
R77 who gave you such information that R77 would be the primrary BVR of the LCA Tejas, but with the IP rights and knowledge, it would be easy for the HAL to integrade all BVR available in India -- R-77, R-63, Derby, Python, MICA IR/RF, Astra Mk1/Mk2. but for the LMCA lCA tejas whose primrary role is interceptor, Astra is more than enough.
So, getting a airplane manufactured by China, trying to learn the manufacturing technique, and, trying different configurations and ordnance is not a bad thing at all. It should have been a very exciting experience for Pakistani team. The design and research phase saved a lot of money and considering the low economic performance of the country, the situation of the industry is quite encouraging.
The matter is, as long as PAF is able to redesign, test and improve it whenever and whatever they need, that is the big advantage for them which most of the countries in the world do not have.
Question is does Pakistan have the IPR and the Aerodynamic cofficient data for JF-17. Well FC-1 was originally the soviet design of project Mig-33 which was single engine mig 29 variant, whose blue print and flight testing data and IPR was bought as the abandoned project of the Soviet from the MIG Co by the AVIC and China somehow continues this project, when Pakistan jumped into this project, by partially funding the project with 500 Million dollor. In short AVIC fails to get any order in PLAAF, and targeted the export market, of which PAF become the first customer.
So there are two type of advantage to the Pakistan other than the plane itself which she urgently needed for the replacement of the ageing old J-7, Nachang Q-5 Bomber, and Mirrage3/5
1. Local Industry growth and industrial know how -- It depend on the number of the subcontrators supplying various parts other than PAC, because local industry plays a vital role in the development of the whole eco system. Very less information is available to me but what I learn till now is that few avionics are now locally manufactured by the local vendors and some subsystem. What I learn is that all the gigs, Dies and equipment used for the manufacturing has been provided by the AVIC to the PAC Kamra, then PAC would learn to manufacture and various technique and technology like welding, integration etc, but if the Pakistan claim of indigenous manufacturing of the trainer like K-7 is there, then PAC already have that experience, plus the repair and maintenance experience of the Mirrage 3/5. So in short technique and technologies to manufacture parts and air frame somehow close to TOT.
2. Intellectual Know How -- If PAC have actively participated in the design and development program of this project from the ground, which I don't think so, because it was started by the MIG OEM and gave the prelimanary design and all data to AVIC and AVIC was long working on this project keeping it alive. Now if you can give me the number of the engineers going from the Pakistan who had worked in this project, and AVIC is so generous to the Pakistan and is happily sharing its IPRs and the aerodynamic and CFD model design data then Pakistan would be able to change or tweek the JF-17 of its own, and if it has absorbed all know how of the designing process, then pakistan is able to build a new aircraft of its own.
