Bharat Rakshak

is there any open competition to design the fighter jet .... if not then it would be a good idea for the DRDO to conduct such a competition in India .... maybe involve all the IIT's and the engineering colleges .... India needs to enocourage young talent and groom them .... Remember the Titanic was ...

HAL should keep developing fighters and keep going ahead with trials of various mainframes like batwing , X wing fighters , or maybe borrow the Lampyrere German stealth designs .... HAL should keep up with experimental aircraft ...if the IAF likes a certain product of HAL then the production line op...

LCA Mk- 2 still on the drawing board ... It will take atleast 2 yrs to get the blueprint done and the work to start. After that the technical glitches and the trials which is going to take a another 4 - 5 years atleast .... then depending on the critical tech and engines being imported , hopefully n...

The IAF cheif mentioned earlier this year that 50% of our IAF fighters are obsolete.... with rapidly depleting fighter strength ... the Gov. of India has been toooo slow to ink the MMRCA deal ... and to add more trouble the Chinese are rapidly making strides ... though we produce talented engineers ...

the chinese now have the J20 ... while the AMCA is still on paper !!!

will this new stealth aircraft penetrate US airspace ?

clearly the IAF have now raised the stakes ... they now want MRCA to be able to do the heavy lifting as well. Out of the competitors MiG 35 or F/A 18 can do the role .... Rafale and EF typhoon can perform well , surely they cost an arm or leg to purchase them ..also in war IAF woud most likely encou...

how about the AURORA STEALTH FIGHTER which is rumoured to fly at mach 10 ! :eek:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:O9gT1f9T8TQnaM:

SH , SV are all American so prone to get sanctioned ....gRIPEN NG contains too many American stuff so US may not permit those stuff to go to IAF ... MiG 35 is still a paper plane .. is not ready yet .. wouldnt be able to meet the requirement of IAF to produce them soon ... IAF needs the some jets in...

I agree with the posts above which mention that Indian like FOREIGN stuff for defence .. Our country has been heavily dependant on foreign fighters but somewhere down inside me a voice keeps saying India can produce advanced fighter to defend our country .... It is not difficult design a airframe fo...

GRIPEN NG really looks good performace and price .... only problem is the American companies trying to pressure SAAB out of the competition. Rafale is a good fighter ... also it has no foreign sales till date which makes it attractive because besides the French on one else truly knows its technical ...

The cost of flying a combat aircraft can be very expensive ... for example current estimates of the USAF of flying the F16 in Iraq and Afghanistan is around 17000 dollars per hour [ for fuel and maintainence]..... as we all know that F16 is a single engined aircraft and if this fighter runs up an as...

Mig 35, Eurofighter typhoon , GRIPEN NG are currently leading the MMRCA race ... the bird with the lowest bid which satisfies the IAF trials will win the contract...

the winner will be the bird with the lowest bid , total tech transfer ..... currently the top three contenders are MiG -35 , Gripen NG , F16 superviper .... $10 billion deal for 126 birds can only fit the above three jets .... F/A 18 superhornet is too expensive and only limited tech transfer . EF T...