ADA Tejas Mark-II/Medium Weight Fighter

[Bleh]

No that's redesign of the same airframe. It's more complicated, like how our Sainik sir wanted the pylons shifted on MWF. Not possible for to structural strength reasons.

However designing a derivative based on a larger fighter is possible, like La'vi. Actually one exists for the very Rafale you cited as example.
It's the Novi Avion of Yugoslavia created by Dassault consultancy.

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My concept ALCA was on similar lines as the Novi Avion only.

You may not convert a legacy Tejas LCA to stealth, but you can convert a stealthy AMCA to a single engine light fighter based off it. as our Sainik sir opined HAL/ADA should have done much before. I'd even come up with isometric views from al 3 sides.

 

[ArjunMK1A]

Very a complete redesign from scratch... you can't just draw lines & expect it to work!

They tried to alter the Rafale & call it TEDBF & now everyday it looks more like Rafale

ADA/ADE intentionally benchmarked TEDBF against Rafale. So it is pretty much Indian version of Rafale with slight difference.

 

[Bhartiya Sainik]

My concept ALCA was on similar lines as the Novi Avion only.

You may not convert a legacy Tejas LCA to stealth, but you can convert a stealthy AMCA to a single engine light fighter based off it. as our Sainik sir opined HAL/ADA should have done much before. I'd even come up with isometric views from al 3 sides.
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I'm avoiding DSI due to more stealth hence the only other option is of F-22.
- 1 engine of F414 class or AL-31/41/F-100/110 class initially. If USA gives just the F135 engine then nice But still F-35 TWR is not like F-22.
- 2 side intakes to make some IWB & SWB.
- IWB can carry 4 BVR-AAMs or 2 AGMs. Each SWB can carry 1, may be 2 CCMs, depends on size.
- half length all-moving rudder which can be researched into tail-less or rotating rudder-stab.
- Wing shape & size not determined yet.
- Some people might want canards for Naval model.
The 1st/top one's fuselage outline looks like cousin of Su-75 (F-22 inlet cut half width-wise)
The middle one like child of Su-57 + F-22 (F-22 inlet cut half height-wise)
The below one like younger sibling of F-35 (F-22 inlet reduced to 1/4th quadrant)
NOTE: These are notional & not to scale.

 

[DancingPeacock]

I'm avoiding DSI due to more stealth hence the only other option is of F-22.
- 1 engine of F414 class or AL-31/41/F-100/110 class initially. If USA gives just the F135 engine then nice But still F-35 TWR is not like F-22.
- 2 side intakes to make some IWB & SWB.
- IWB can carry 4 BVR-AAMs or 2 AGMs. Each SWB can carry 1, may be 2 CCMs, depends on size.
- half length all-moving rudder which can be researched into tail-less or rotating rudder-stab.
- Wing shape & size not determined yet.
- Some people might want canards for Naval model.
The 1st/top one's fuselage outline looks like cousin of Su-75 (F-22 inlet cut half width-wise)
The middle one like child of Su-57 + F-22 (F-22 inlet cut half height-wise)
The below one like younger sibling of F-35 (F-22 inlet reduced to 1/4th quadrant)
NOTE: These are notional & not to scale.

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You can look at Mitsubishi X-2 shinshin for inspiration. Although it got 2 engines they are of half the thrust of F-414 class with 25kN dry and 50kN wet. It also got some 13-Ton MTOW which can be increased i think.

 

[Bhartiya Sainik]

You can look at Mitsubishi X-2 shinshin for inspiration. Although it got 2 engines they are of half the thrust of F-414 class with 25kN dry and 50kN wet. It also got some 13-Ton MTOW which can be increased i think.

Personally i'm twin engine jet minded. Redundancy is good thing & if 1 engine fails then other engine should be sufficient to make the jet RTB (return To Base) safely.
But some people also prefer 1 engine jet in medium weight category due to less maintenance cost & time. So i'm putting up these. Otherwise these same frontal notions can be assumed for twin engines also.