Bharat Rakshak

Victor

IAF doesn't fund the TDs, MoD does. IAF has not been mandated to develop India's MIC nor does its budget provide for this role. It is still merely a customer, albeit an involved one since it is the only customer. It does however make suggestions to MoD for creating a viable MIC, one being to bring i...

Victor

We seem to be forgetting that the IAF manufactured the HS728 "Avro" in the Kanpur base depot without problems before HAL took over the factory. Why can't they do it again. Anything is better than having a vindictive and irresponsible HAL mucking things up. If not IAF then some private comp...

Victor

The committee also asked DRDO about its research on a Gujarat-based Sadhu, Prahlad Jani, who has been living on air. He does not eat and drink. A research on him was carried out in 2003 and 2010 and the committee asked if the outcome can be used in warfare. Short-sighted bumpkin kufars! Does it not...

Victor

Challenges in Getting Better Buying Power to Indian Army We need to get used to the idea of incentivizing industry for efficiency and performance . We could also make a beginning by measuring return on investment in DRDO laboratories and simultaneously explore feasibility of outsourcing research an...

Victor

About all this cooked-up rona-dhona about 0-0 ejection seats, as has already been said before, it was HAL that insisted that they should put it in the specs, not IAF. Otherwise, it is not a requirement for a basic trainer like PC-7 due to slow takeoff and landing speeds and is in fact considered mor...

Victor

The three gunmen have been identified as French citizens of Algerian descent, 2 brothers in their early 30s and an 18 yr old. All live in Paris. It looks like they may have been cornered in Reims from what I'm seeing on tv. They had a military bearing, looked comfortable with guns, knew how to appro...

Victor

^^Grudging respect for HAL/ADA prowess in manufacturing mockups (and fnckups). MTA, IJT, AJT, MJT, AMCA, PAKFA, HALE, MALE, KLPD etc. BTW has Rustom II flown yet or is it still being "tested" on engine start (very important this) and taxi runs to make sure nothing falls off? It was suppose...

Victor

I hope the IAF makes the Pilatus themselves as they had earlier stated. It would be a monumental blunder to hand it over to HAL after this. Anyone but HAL.

Victor

So it's all the IAF's fault now to our esteemed "patriots" on Bharat Rakshak! No doubt, the MoD is also faultless since it only did what the IAF wants, no? Only HAL, that paragon of tiranga pride and SDRE genius, is the gold standard of Indian patriotism. Poor, overworked SDRE dhotiwalas t...

Victor

ravi_g wrote: LCA Mk-1 ka performance when compared to F-16s, jara bataiye kitna bura hai bhai? Why is the finish line sought to be moved. LCA MK-1 is good to go.

As I keep saying, this is for the IAF to answer, in word or deed. [gabbar]Hum ko kuch nahi pata[/gabbar].

Victor

Seriously victor, do you even bother to read when you punch keys on keyboard ? Wiki tells me: M88: Length 139'', diameter 27', dry wt 1997lbs, dry thrust 50kN 404: Length 154", diameter 35", dry wt 2282lbs, dry thrust 48.9kN ie. M88 is smaller, lighter and has more thrust than GE-404 Sinc...

Victor

So, basically , in Inglees, what Matheswaran and you are flogging is the dead duck Novi Avion, which as back then the studies and the actions of the ADA showed will SIMPLY not have met the IAF requirements even back in that time , not to mention today.[/b] Is this some dhotiwala "pheeling"...

Victor

..there were two competing designs at that time. One from Dassault and other from rest of the euros (MBB or EADS, I don't remember exactly). Dassault proposed cranked delta versus the canard layout of the competing design. Cranked delta was selected ultimately. If true, we need a :shake head: smile...

Victor

^ What do you mean by false attribution? ACM Naik was speaking for the entire IAF when he slammed HAL/ADA in public. Is there still any doubt about what the IAF thinks? Serving officers will never make statements in public. IMO, the fact that MoD did not butt in says a lot for its own view of ADA/HA...

Victor

Therefore, ex. AVM Matheswaran's comments can only be put down as bias. Tejas Mk1's short-comings are not a want of canard. Anybody who knows aerodynamics will tell you that easily , as has been evidenced by numerous studies. Believe it or not! AVM Matheswaran was simply stating that the consultant...

Victor

The last we heard from the IAF on the issue was there was no Plan B and the Rafale deal will be finalized very soon. I assume that means IAF is not interested in adding Sukhois. If the other contenders can't be chosen due to legal issues, specifically the Typhoon, that leaves the F/A-18 with EPE whi...

Victor

3g) The SDRE LCA Wing Planform: So, they decided to have best of both the worlds ... have a wing which will have both non-slender and slender delta planform. And viola, you got the compound delta LCA wing design, with it's both a low-wing-sweep (50deg, so non-slender delta) and high-wing-sweep (~63...

Victor

Rafale is several notches above the MKI in quality, effectiveness, performance, serviceability and cost. Per piece acquisition cost is not relevant. It is a qualitative jump over anything the chinese have right now or will have for some time. It is a force multiplier that we cannot afford not to hav...

Victor

We will find flotsam and human remains soon enough. Everything cannot sink. Hopefully the waters are not too deep to find the sunken hulk itself.

Victor

Clearly major FUD being spread by paid media to discredit Modi govt and God knows what else. After Saint Anthony, anything is possible. Navy not in loop and/or ignores intel report from NTRO/CG Dornier. The only thing that makes sense here is Navy told CG, go ahead, take them out. Or maybe the SOP i...

Victor

Some differing insight on the NDFB attacks on the Tea Tribe people. http://www.covertwires.com/index.php/articles/christian-terrorist-group-ndfbs-massacres-73-civilians-in-assam “The tribal people were on the target of the NDFB(S) since the moment they started praising the RSS and tried to come int...

Victor

Here is an engine simulator that allows one to examine the effect of inlet design on engine performance. Another factor that I remember reading about is the location of the inlet itself. The airflow around a maneuvering aircraft will have a varying effect on the amount of air and its speed reaching ...

Victor

Matheswaran and Khokhar point to the problems: the LCA fares badly in turn rate, climb rate and range. The turn rate and climb penalties would give it a severe disadvantage in close combat In today's world of missiles that can turn around 180 and shoot the guy behind you (off-boresight for the alph...

Victor

The eggspurts on this thread (who are aeronautical engineers) have declared that I am spreading "bullcrap" and thus it must be so. No reasoned response, no rebuttal, just abuse. It's below me to stoop to their level but let me say that I fully believe that it is they who know little themse...

Victor

Brar ji by "conventional" I meant wings, fuselage, tail in back. What was left unsaid is that unconventional aircraft (like the F117) can be unstable in ALL ASPECTS not just wing loading, essentially a flying brick, while a "regular" (perhaps that's the word I should have used?) ...

Victor

Shalav wrote:
They can't be both conventional and unstable! Conventional aircraft (ie non-fbw) by definition are stable.

They can. I meant an aircraft like F-117 which shouldn't be able to fly but does due to FBW.

Victor

an aircraft with lower wing loading...will also be able to turn faster. True and I suppose I was imprecise with my wording, but this nominal rule of thumb has come down to us from WW1 which isn't relevant today--the definition of "maneuverable" has changed. You are not going into a turnin...

Victor

Rohit, higher wing loading is the biggest determinant of an "unstable" conventional aircraft which in turn is what defines maneuverability, including STR and ITR. Mig21 also excels in acceleration. Granted LCA has not touched its full envelope so far but expecting it to outdo the Mig with ...

Victor

^ OK. let's say it has better maneuverability and ITR than LCA.

Victor

^ That's because the Mig21 production line had closed down and even the later Migs had not enough hours left in their airframes to justify the expense. Whatever could be done was done with Bison but not FBW. BTW, the Mig21 is about the same size as the Gripen and bigger than the LCA. In a sense, the...

Victor

Flying an LCA with FBW after flying a Mig21 would obviously be a better flying experience, like an automatic Volvo after stick shift Jonga. Point is, the IAF is still using the Jonga, not the Volvo because the Jonga is a better fighter. It's a pity it was not thought fiscally prudent to convert the ...

Victor

Khokar had "whined" about first fast-tracking the LCA Mk1 with the proven fixes that we are going to use with Mk2 before we dump all our energies and time on a new Mk2. This does make eminent sense as the Lord alone knows what dark and endless alleys we are going to travel thru with Mk2. T...

Victor

Indranil, stuff like turn rate, drag etc can't be pulled out of thin air by people who have no access to test records. I think the net warriors are basing their comments on what the IAF people are saying. If someone like Air Cmdr Khokhar says turn rate is not good, only two things are possible: turn...

Victor

^^^ I took all the numbers from wiki and they mirror the shortcomings of LCA from IAF's pov. If these numbers are wrong, please post the correct ones. I'd imagine that ADA itself would take it upon itself to correct them on wiki unless they simply don't care (which would be another worry point). Oth...

Victor

Cybaru wrote:
Sorry man, those values quoted for range just seem absurdly wrong. Must be from the Gripe-n marketing department!

They were wrong and also unclear. I've removed them and replaced with the more relevant "Combat Radius" instead. Still not good--186 mi vs 497 mi against LCA.

Victor

India's first effort at an aircraft is being compared to state-of-the-art product from countries which have been developing aircraft for 70 years. HAL has been making airplanes for over 70 years and developing them for almost that long too, believe it or not. Please read about how Israel....kept in...

Victor

What do you want your canards for? Yes "because Gripen has them" is a bad reason but the Kfir, Rafale, Typhoon? I'm guessing it's mainly to reduce the wing area, overall weight, increase wing loading, improve the turn rate and climb rate. But why ask me? The IAF seems to think they were s...

Victor

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb280/brjingo/lcavsgripen_zps5b3fad8a.jpg The design hurdles that ADA/DRDO face with the LCA and also the frustration that the IAF has can be summed up by the above image. Probably the most relevent measuring stick we can find is the Gripen which uses the same eng...

Victor

...Only somebody with congenital comprehension problems ... Looks like you are projecting since you clearly owe your roti, kapda aur makaan to your masters in the great Khan and hence think everyone is like you. With your 24/7 propaganda against Indians and Indian institutions while pretending to b...

Victor

It was precisely to enable the PSU-educated to make such noises and deflect suspicion of nefarious goings on that the UPA actually privatized HAL! I kid you not--HAL was privatized to the tune of--ah, er, oh---10%. Yep, TEN percent is now owned by aam janta so HAL can talk with a straight face about...

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