hal is just doing assembly, it wasnt involved in the design of airframe and its avionics and ew system. we need the numbers from mk2 anyhow by 2036-37, even before. as mig29, jaguar, mirage 2000 would become just like mig 21 is today, an antique. to counter chini quantity, we will also need quantity, considering iaf isnt interested in tedbf program
If you disagree with them, they’ll label you as Indian. Many Pakistani news anchors and overseas Pakistanis who accept the fact that Indian Air Force struck airbases across the length and breadth of Pakistan are now being branded as Indians or Indian agents.
Bravo you are now Raa-agent in their eye my friend. Pakis refer people who they think as R&AW agent Rakesh. Raa-agent Raa-kesh.
Rakesh is a typical Indian name for a stock Indian character, like how Tom, Dick, and Harry would be similar for English speaking world.
Tejas Mk-2 unlike the Su-30 MKI is an Indian design, and is single engine. So unlike the Su-30 MKI which we produced here under license including the engines being built by HAL at Koraput, Odisha, the LCA Mk-2 will be much cheaper to acquire, operate and maintain for the IAF than Su-30 MKI, and HAL won't have to pay royalties to Rosoboronexport/JSC Sukhoi Company of Russia for every Flanker produced here.
Rakesh is quiet common Indian name for those born before 2000s.
No amount of LCA will make up for the lack of engine.
LCA Mk-2 and Mk-1/1A are different. IAF geniuses never intended to buy many LCA Mk1/1A due to which they ordered just 40 (that too 20 IOC in 2006, then FOC in 2010), and then realised "Oh shit, we need more, we have limited options", total 11 years after this clownery they ordered 83 Mk-1A expecting GE Aerospace to be running the GE F404 IN-20 (specialised variant meant for LCA Tejas) production line for limited orders even after so many years. GE had shut down it's assembly line due to orders drying up which they now had to reopen while struggling with getting all engineers and suppliers together once again for producing it, many of those suppliers are themselves struggling due to stopping their own lines years ago.
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Which is why those marine gas turbines are now made here, so that no gender fluid burgerican presilund can easily stop it's sales. Importing anything is risky, especially from those who get frequent mood swings. And by the way, this freeze was for all countries. Obama being the aman ki asha libcuck didn't wanted to export engines for foreign warships.As i've said they don't care.
MWF will be give the Tejas treatment only with jalebi shaped ASQRs with unobtainum feature demands, so will AMCA.
Ye bhi nahi hoga, even Parrikar wasn't confident over Kaveri engine.
You can forget about Leaderji who's only concerned about winning the next election and ekanami.
No Import Marsholl has cried either, as if they'd dare to lambast GE or any US company
It's only fanboys like myself and not without good reason
Shivalik was the first ship to use LM2500 and the Admirols too had to deal with this bs
US freezes engine supply, Navy in a fix | India News - Times of India
India News: Just when India had shed its view of the US being an unreliable arms supplier, given its propensity to impose frequent sanctions, Washington let loose
That time it was open, this time they are making poor GE do "supply chain isshoo saar, bhery saary phor delay"
I guess they are planning to take IN along with their other two vassal's navies for the Taiwan Bachao Andolan in the future, which is why the Admirals have no problem with supply.
Baaki ka you are 100% right, IAF has dug itself into this hole onlee, nobody else is to blame as much.
DRDO chief was saying they are confident on making a modern engine on their own but it will take 15 years or so. That's why they want a foreign partner to reduce it by 5-6 years..Even 5 billion $ won't reduce that time for a 5th gen engine.
A lot more than that though. Localisation increases with time, you won't achieve high %age indigenisation on the first day. Earlier AL-31F Saturns for our Su-30 MKIs were essentially screwdrivered while the latest batches have majority Indian content by value.
Can HAL retrofit GEF414 in Tejas Mk1A if some issue arises wrt to GEF404 engine in the future? Because they will license manufacture it here. Resident engineers how difficult it would be?A lot more than that though. Localisation increases with time, you won't achieve high %age indigenisation on the first day. Earlier AL-31F Saturns for our Su-30 MKIs were essentially screwdrivered while the latest batches have majority Indian content by value.
Many Indian engineering firms are being onboarded into the LM2500 marine gas turbine supply chain.
Triveni Engineering inks pact with GEAE Tech to manufacture gas turbine base
The LM2500 is the chosen propulsion gas turbine by the Indian Navy for many of its surface combatant vessels. It has power ranging from 25 MW to 35 MW and has been in service with over 40 navies globally, the company said in a statement.economictimes.indiatimes.com
