Bharat Rakshak

Kartik

Sirjee if Eurofighter is what it is being bench marked against then ADA should have taken the criteria from NATO na whats the point in involving the IAF in the first place and agreeing to whats being put on table. If ADA could not achieve what IAF wanted in the time line that it did , it should hav...

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Sanku wrote: Sir-ji; once more, kindly discuss the topic and not the poster. many can play this game and the result is not pretty.

sirji, your arguments lack any foundation. thats the problem. So what do I discuss when your mind won't change any way, since its dead set against DPSU?

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Vina, your incredibly long and entertaining fart up there ignored the fact that I was merely summarizing and restating what the LCA's first test pilot had said. It was news to me too. I guess it's way beyond your capabilities to go back a few pages to find out what's going on. Never mind. You're an...

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Mig 21 has only payload of 1 ton and Tejas 4 tons. I'd actually like Victor to give us this info since he was the one claiming that it cannot carry a meaningful payload. How much payload does the MiG-21 Bison carry? I won't ask for a payload-range chart (which could be taken for a MiG-21Bis and con...

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Yes it does--35 inches diameter for both. You'll have better luck if you stick to authentic sources. Lay off the riffraff sites and head straight for GE Aviation. thank you for the advice, but look a little more into the details and you'll get the real information. Like I said earlier, I was told t...

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Kartik-ji; you should know by now that this sort of bluster does not work with me, if anything, it is counter productive. So lets keep our certificates aside and discuss rationally and civilly shall we. Thanks in anticipation. It's not bluster, it's exasperation at your poking at what is a sound ar...

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source?

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Kartik, 2 things: - The F-414 is a replacement for F-404 and has exactly the same length and diameter so if the wings are going to be pushed out, it will be for some other reason. F-414 is heavier and will require additional fuel which inreases the weight of the aircraft. If the calculation is that...

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Things such as the fuel piping location being shifted, ejection seat issue would have required some re-work but by now ASTE would have IOC-1 Tejas Mk1s in hand and soon enough an entire squadron could have been equipped with the Tejas Mk1, also at IOC-1 standard. You think post construction additio...

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Instead of jumping to the defence of the useless DPSUs or on the IAF for doing something they have not done, it may be more productive to figure out in our own non-professional way what to do from here. One way to make sure the LCA experience actually kills some enemies in future instead of becomin...

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Also, please don't confuse an airplane that doesn't have official clearance to those that have. F-18 and A380 along with all airplanes in service had to be certified in one way or another before they were allowed to operate in any way. In a civil airliner, the requirements are that much more string...

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Those other improvements that he mentioned can be done in next iterations. it is very common in the airline business. The new builds of A380 will have a slightly more twist in the wings compared to initial ones built 5 years back. And all the improvements that he mentioned are the result of learnin...

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This is what AM Rajkumar said about LCA2: We could however use this opportunity to lengthen the fuselage, look at the wave drag to improve aerodynamics, put a wider chord on the wings to generate more lift , etc. He himself said in the article that he wasn't sure what all the changes were on the MK...

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That's what I meant--it will be based nowhere near a threat zone because it is considered a risk in a threat zone, the zone that it was designed for. Utter rubbish. It's being based there due to its proximity to Bangalore and HAL. The first couple of years will require very close coordination betwe...

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It has demonstrated what it can do at Iron Fist 2013. Wonder if you even pressed play on that video. Even a DC-3 can release flares, fire missiles and drop bombs. That is a nice video but it did not address the problems of fighter performance. This is what AM Rajkumar said: The main shortcoming wou...

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Hyperbole eh? You are actually suggesting that we field a plane that cannot lift a useful load of weapons, climb or accelerate properly to go into combat, right? Or are you saying it CAN carry a useful load AND climb and accelerate adequately? It doesn't need to go to combat! It needs to go to an o...

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The comments by Air Marshal Rajkumar posted above by Austin are a sobering eye opener. The LCA Mk1 is not structurally and aerodynamically efficient enough to carry any meaningful loads while meeting basic combat flight characteristics (climb rate and acceleration), specially in hot & high cond...

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@ Kartik: weren't LSP7 and 8 always meant for IAF evaluation? Also, ordering 20 PV5 standard A/C would not have been very useful as PV5 simply wasn't mature enough (no autopilot, radar, etc.). IMHO the first 20 SP's were supposed to be of LSP5 standard which was mature enough (with some additional ...

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An order of 20 in PV-5 standard & additional 20 in LSP-3/5 standard would have made HAL to streamline its shopfloor by now, stabilise 100s of small scale industries, build training manuals. Instead IAF starved the program by not ordering the tranches. And what would IAF do with those 20 PV 5 et...

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The lament continues! I can only shake my head in despair! WHERE ARE THE AIRCRAFT? Where are the first two with the ASTE with which they would complete the Service evaluation? Where are the next four with which TACDE can begin formulating combat tactics? Where are a minimum of eight with which a co...

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Austin that is an old article, dating back to when NP-1 was rolled out.

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Because as the An-32 and before this the An-12 examples show, our lack of a dedicated bomber fleet forces us to do jugaad. The P-8I will always be used primarily for the specialized roles intended, but never hurts to have a Plan B, C, or D. you're comparing a simple transport with a specialised mar...

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Can it be used as a bomb truck? why would you use something so specialised and something that is required for a special set of tasks that the IN desperately needs platforms for, for something like just dropping bombs? There are plenty of other assets that can do that job, but none other than the MR...

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Russia, India sign agreement on military exchange Russia and India have signed an agreement on training Indian deck-based aircraft pilots, Sergei Korotkov, head of the Russian aircraft corporation MiG, told reporters on Sunday. The agreement stipulates Russian pilots training their Indian colleague...

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from a friend who works in the PR business, its actually common for money to be paid to journos to plant stories that paint their own products in a good light and their competitors in a bad light. We saw that at its peak during the MRCA competition when even respected people were coming out with art...

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A bit nitpick saar out of the six flights two are from two different aircrafts, the hole in that moron "source's" theory is punched by LSP-5 which logs 4 flights in 4 days. Even worse for that "source's" credibility. He has no clue what telemetry is meant to do and will now beli...

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The "source" that was quoted in that article on IDRW.org said that “Normally, a combat plane is ready for its next sortie following a 30-minute attention from ground service personnel soon after it has returned from a mission. In the case of LCA, after a single sortie of about an hour or s...

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^I suppose one can only appreciate "why" when one spends a few years on this forum and hear these resident russophiles denigrate indigenous products and peddle russian crap in almost every single post they make. When it becomes obvious that no matter how many times people point out the er...

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Rubbish motivated report. The intent is quite clear. These are last ditch efforts to try and give the aircraft a bad name when it's nearly in the last lap before it sees IOC. Not a reliable radar? Utter nonsense. Deficient in 100 technical parameters? Wonder what the source is, but the ADA should pu...

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Video on the proposed MiG-27 engine replacement with a Al-31 engine variant. Don't think that this proposed upgrade went anywhere and for some reason the IAF seems to have no real interest left in going beyond the upgrade it carried on 40 MiG-27s earlier this decade.

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Don't remember seeing this video of the LCA in Ladakh being posted earlier. Couldn't recognize the Test pilot in this one. Could anyone identify him?

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Beautiful video of Tejas from Iron fist 2013. It definitely is quite an agile machine. Shows the LGB drop and the A2A shot on the chaff. http://api.smugmug.com/services/embed/2465302115_pFN6nDr?albumId=28991139&albumKey=nmrgS8&width=640&height=360 Also one thing that caught my eye is th...

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Cant believe a fighter can fly for 50 year in an Airforce , perhaps a very rare thing for any airforce to fly a major type for that long ...... 1963-2013 is 50 Years of Mig-21 and Bison will continue till 2017 atleast may be even longer wont be surprised if Mig-21 Bison reaches the target to 60 yrs...

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No it's an F-15.

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IMO, letting HAL do it all on its own and seeing if they get a HTT-40 prototype in the air by 2015 is the least risk approach. Any other private sector company will not be able to get a prototype BTT (unless its basically just a carbon copy of some already flying BTT like the KAI KT-1 Woong Bee) in ...

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All those for having a private company take up HTT-40 development, please answer these questions: 1. For production to start in 2017/2018(hard requirement), the prototype needs to be flying by 2015, which means the build should start in 2013. How will a private house start now and get a prototype i...

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I am not sure what the complaint is? Is complaint that HAL has more experience? Yes sure, but I am in favor of giving such lower end products to companies which have basic competencies for the same, so that they can push themselves up. I'm not sure that designing and developing a turbo trainer is w...

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And they will continue having zero experience for eternity until they actually work on a project. HTT-40 can be a good starting point. It is nowhere near as complex as the LCA for example, and if they fail, the IAF has a ready option available in an aircraft they would already be using in limited n...

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LCS got stealth and kick ass looks , Talwar doesnt you remember that :) that's a cheap shot Austin. I'd expect someone like Philip to come running with some lame excuse each time a Russian weapons system is criticized for ANYTHING (just as I'd expect him to come running with heaps of criticism if i...

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Nevertheless, for a follow-on contract, such a high figure is just hard to digest, considering we know how much the earlier batches cost and they'd have had all of the training/spares/warranty support etc. included in their contract costs. If the cost is high and its not worth it then lets not buy ...

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