I prefer we put in cavery in Tejas and make 1000 of them.
I told you what my airforce should do - putter around with what they have and spend 10 billion to buy 300 tejas instead of 10 billion to buy 30 rafales. Quantity is a quality of its own as Russians proved by beating the technologically superior nazis.
i would rather have 10 substandard tejas with caveri than 1 Rafale.
> We'll ALWAYS be outnumbered by China.
>
Quantity & quality both are required at their place & time. But if used on front-line then losses on both sides will also be like that. More body bags, ejected/captured pilots. This is a dillema for all nations.
> Do we want to level up with global leaders a.s.a.p. OR remain lagger for eternity?
> If we want our AMCA, UCAVs to succeed, that autmatically puts all 4gen airframes behind.
> Classic delta wing has its limitations in agility. Delta-canard is much better if the avionics is written properly.
> 1 engine is cheaper but also risky w/o redundancy.
> Smaller engine means less payload, ATWR, electricity.
> LCA & all jets like it globally are obsolete "can't spit, can't swallow" kind of thing.
> They can be used for base defence & low risk zones for next few decades, that's all.
> Once we have JV engine, LCA will be history, nobody would talk about it.
> Sweden can turn its Gripen into UCAV any day.
> Hence LCA should be given some geometric treatment, turned into UCAV, optionally manned.
Being
most populous country, since 1990s+2000s, we have
10s of 1000s of techies passing out of college every year. it is "now or never" moment to
absorb people into setting up supply-chain industry. It is time to correctly utilize Socialist mixed-economy & leave behind obsolete 4gen airframes.
