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I wish... within a year ?

I will be indebited if within a year, we choose the direction we are heading down and shortlist our strategic partner.

Khalsa

Yeahppp..... time to quietly build his capability.
One thing I have seen, going for the Babus loudly leads to failure.

Gotta go tghe Navy Way, the ISRO way. just quietly keep increasing the order set
its a 100 year game

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Thank you

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Gorgeous
we are almost at the same pace as the yanks as they try our RCWS fitted on Abrams and their IFVs

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Buy the Su-57 X 2 Squadrons and have them stand toe to toe with the J35 and get this tamasha over it.. Buy all the Rafale outright from the French. Start Building Tejas Mk 2 Start Building AMCA Prototypes now. Start working on the engine strategy. What are we doing ? GE, our Own, Joint with Safran.

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Not bad at all

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IAF is ready to NOT WIN and NOT LOSE the next TOTAL war with Pakistan.
They need to pick up their game and begin incremental steps now instead of waiting for the final solution

The Swarajya article was an eye opener.

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twitter verse including some retired IAF officers claiming C390 is coming and Brazil might be purchasing the Tejas in return.
Return for HAL to South America if it happens.

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While I appreciate the round 3 of why Mk2 or why not Mk2. The question has been settled many times and the answer is multi-faceted. engine roadmap, radar roadmap, ejection seat, weapons road map etc etc. Cybaru also completed argument above. We are on the cusp of rolling out a TD for the Mk2. AMCA i...

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Roger Aligned

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Sounds promising.

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What would be worse is....is actually producing this monstrosity in India. Purchase 2 Squadrons to match the numbers of J35 ... .number for number, tail for tail with PAF and sit smug. Now go to work with AMCA. If I was a dictator, I would actually buy the Rafales off the shelf too. India should be ...

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Over 300 Aircraft at the mercy of United States of America for the engines ? No thank you Happy ... very happy with the 114 Rafales There is no Guarantee that French will not become part of Some European Sanction on India if they choose to surrender to Americans. The one and only option is Kaveri a...

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Awesome

Nigeria Air Force
4 X Prachand Attack Helicopter (Country of Origin - India)
3 X JF-17 Fighter jet (Country of Origin - Pakistan)

If there is one country that I have hope in having a more entertaining stable than IAF .... it is the NAF.
Go Nigeria !!

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Break up of 97 order is 68 Single seaters and 29 twin seaters... ---- Mk1 is 32 S + 8T 1st Mk1A order is 73 S + 10T 2nd Mk1A order is 68 S + 29T (I expected it to be 89S + 8T) That is total 32 Mk1 SingleSeaters, 141 Mk1A SingleSeaters and 47 TwinSeaters ---- Honestly, these numbers are confusing......

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I think the number of AL31 to airframe is 3:1.
Not the same for GE for Tejas.

Western Engines indeed rule

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Over 300 Aircraft at the mercy of United States of America for the engines ?
No thank you

Happy ... very happy with the 114 Rafales

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Khiyali Pulao or is this verified and serious ?

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Rakesh wrote: ↑02 Oct 2025 22:06
Khalsa wrote: ↑02 Oct 2025 17:03 The MTA is heating up Dear Admiral. Thoughts?
Logically, Airbus should win because of the TASL-Airbus consortium with the C-295 assembly. But logic never works at the MoD.

Do you mean the A400 M Atlas ?

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I agree, a knee jerk reaction symptomatic of the F-16 vs Mig29/MiG23/M2K will happen again once the J35 arrives in Pindi
My only gripe is .... wish we could purchase the closed box F35 over the closed box Su57.

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The MTA is heating up Dear Admiral. Thoughts?

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Agree with both of you Cain Marko Sahib and Lakshman Sahib. I think we we will retain a core of the elite or latest Su-30 MKI but I thought AMCA will replace some of the older fleet of Su-30 MKIs no ? These are the oldest airframes we have. Last not least, in case we ever manage to crack our super S...

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Too small at that time sir to remember that but I remember going to Bathinda air base around that time and seeing the MiG21 at an airshow as well as other aircraft.
Just fell in the love with the sharp cone of that a/c.

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Looks like Rohit , Shiv and others are caught up in a debate about the path and rate of development of Tejas vs JF-17 etc. And its beginning to spillover into why do we or should we care about the Mk2 and go straight to the AMCA from Mk1A. Not realising that we have pages of this debate and rational...

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I applaud the IAF and HAL. The country is doing the best it can. While Navy leads the trend towards self dependence/ atmanirbharta, the fact remains that most of the equipment of Indian Air force operates where human survival without the aid of pressurized cabins and Oxygen is not possible. This is ...

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Kartik, it looks like it more likely to head out to the private stables from the number of houses teaming up.

I sincerely hope the modern IAF looks AMCA heavy in the future.

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the name Indra and not naming it was to ensure it bore no linkages to the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
The armed forces must remain bipartisan, no clapping during political speeches etc and all that stuff goes with it.

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Its good to know that it has arrived but sad that a nationa of billion plus is tweeting and gawking at the arrival of the fourth engine from GE for the first Tejas Mk1A squadron. 14 Air frames ready 4 Engines ready Down by two mig21 squadron this year. I do not understand how many more ways does the...

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If Rafale is going to private then better to keep AMCA in the HAL stables.

HAL
1. Mk1A
2. Mk2
3. AMCA

TASL
1. Rafale
2. C-130 bodies
3. C-295
4. F-16 wings and body

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The Su-57 are to J-35 what Mirage 2000K/MiG29/MiG-23 were to the F-16 procurement. As a person who has now lived consciously across both these decision points, it is just bloody ironic that both these times its the circumstances dictating the expediting of IAF procurements to restore the edge. Pleas...

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The Mk1A just look gorgeous in primer. Somehow I am completely addicted to their photos in primer before they are given the appropriate paint job. 13 Mk1s. WOW that is almost a squadron ready to go. Bring on those GE Engines.

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Congratulations to the Chinese MIC for persistance.
That is how you do it.

The key things to note here are

FLAT TOP
J-15T - Heavy Fighter
J-35 - Naval Stealth Fighter
KJ-600 - AWACS
Catapault - EMALS

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Be great to see this going out of HAL and leading to a wider seeding of the Aeronautical industry.
I wonder who is going to be partner for the rafale.

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12 Years !!

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Dear Admiral
where are my Rafale Tejas Mk1A Naval trainers

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Absolutely the fighter jet that ignited the fire of attraction of Air Force for me.
It was this aircraft the gnat and hunter that was the heroes of our old wars for me.

Rest up old 21. You have done well.

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MRFA cannot and should not be 5th gen acquisition. No Air Force, not even the US intends to keep stealth more than 50%. F-16 and F-15 will still be the bulk for a while to come. MRFA must be rafale and the stop gap has to be an off the shelf F-35, not the Su-57. Parallel future lies with Tejas Mk2 a...

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Are the Airbus based Mk2s on top of the Mk1A or has the order for Mk1A been scrapped ? MK1–> EMB-145 (2+1) MK1A—> EMB-145 (6) MK2–> A321 (6) MK1A may be more complicated because they have to find the spare EMB-145 airframes laying around the world that are trusted enough to be converted for this ro...

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Manish_P wrote: ↑23 Aug 2025 07:12 Whew...

Thank you Trump ji. Many many thanks.

Ironic, so true.
everytime it takes a tragedy and or betrayal to move us forward.

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