LCA TEJAS MK-I & MK-IA: News and Discussion

[samsaptaka]

What a colossal ef up the management team has done with LCA. engine requirement was known since decades and they had decades of time to procure the engines in advance to mitigate the already delayed project. But they played a goggly here and now have nothing but to wait and watch while Squadron strangth is dwindling to ground.
HAL/GOI deserves the tagma of Hila-le-Pakistan.
@Ayan Barat Does anybody know what is the status of Mk1 project? and if it too along with Mk1A is being delayed due to engine issue?

There is no accountability of PSU nor the MoD procurement nor the procurement side of IAF. All want to just point fingers
IAF : HAL/ADA should get the engine part / engine order/delivery game right, then we will place orders
HAL : Let IAF first place orders, we will then think about placing ordersfor engines
And so on and on...

 

[r8rdarklord]

WS-13 utha lete hy... Hindi-Chini-bhai-bhai

Why WS-13? Buy J10C - the Chinese will happily deliver 24 fighter jets/year.

 

[Asmodeus]

All want to just point fingers

Even though that is true. Here's my hypothesis, Someone higher at the IAF level got healthy amounts of Bejamin Franklin dose to de-link Kaveri from Tejas.
Now, Govt will not give funds because they see it as Academic project which has no practical use.
DRDO/GTRE see govt as technically illiterate as they are not familiar with problems faced during devlopement which take time to solve.
IAF will blame Govt for not taking timely decisions.. Its a very well laid out plan.