Bharat Rakshak

Wickberg

All this talk about "India should not have taken such a big bite in the 1980s and trying to build a multirole fighter, it was too ambitious" I think is bollocks. What was India suppose to do? All, I say ALL, fighter-projects from that era was multi-role, Gripen, Rafale, Eurofighter, Novi A...

Wickberg

I was a very early supporter of LCA having followed the HF-24 -> HF-74 saga. Used to scour Interavia, Flight and other obscure mags to get an idea of LCA progress since 1986. I thought after 1995 rollout of LCA TD1 its matter of time the plane will be complete. After the first flights of the series...

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indranilroy wrote:^^^ GEntlemen no more discussion on this. If you have nothing to add about LCA, then please don't post.

Does the two-seater trainer version of the LCA have the 23mm gun installed?

Wickberg

Its now June 2015, has Cobham delivered the two critical items : IFR and Radome? Should be Jan 2015 for IFR and Feb or March for the radome. As you said. I remember reading the "Janes books of future fighters" in the early 80´s and reading about LCA and the Gripen. Now over 30 years later...

Wickberg

Guys ...pls stop these personal attacks. Bharat - India Rakshak - defender It is a local defense forum but everyone is welcome with positive contributions. No pissing compitition or scoring goal pls. Oh, thanks. So it´s kinda like that Pakistani defence forum (wich I have´nt visited in years and ha...

Wickberg

Karan M wrote:Funny how angrezi becomes an issue, and thoughts of sab jahaj acche hain, bhaichara come into play when the laathi starts taking effect.

Once again, wise words from the expert. I bow my head and take your personal insult with a smile.

Wickberg

I really don´t know what "Wick envy" is (english is not my first language) but I thought this was an international forum considering you all write in english. Sorry to interject here, but just out of curiosity - what did you think 'Bharat Rakshak' meant? I honestly have no idea. Is that s...

Wickberg

For every statement like this you make you sound more and more like a LCA-expert :) Better than being a Wickberg who seems to be suffering from small Wick envy and is hence forced to troll away in an Indian forum. :lol: (BTW, I don´t mind being called a "drunk swedish clown" or that you s...

Wickberg

LOL, look at who is talking about personal attacks.. the same guy who began on the line. BTW as regards program being at a standstill, last I checked, the program is funded to Mk2 and Sweden is begging India to buy the Gripen. Must hurt something bad when your own AF can't/won't buy 'em and you hav...

Wickberg

Then thank god we all here have you, who are the expert in these things.... More expert than you at at any rate ...oh wait, that doesn't take much.. And that folks, are the words from an LCA-expert. Now I understand more and more why the project is on a standstill... Edit: Why did you delete the pe...

Wickberg

Is there an older CAG report or any other report which analyses the ASR themselves? I mean how was the Air Force allowed to set ASRs which we have not been able to meet in 30 years? If the Baseline Requirements are unattainable another CAG report on it is not going to bring to light anything new. T...

Wickberg

Thank you, see how it easy it was just answering a simple question. The IAI EL/M-2060P SAR seems to be a terrific choice. Will the LCA use it as well?[/quote] AFAIK, Su-30MKI has been integrated with the EL/M-2060P SAR pod. Check out the red pod being carried: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_o_no4M2xEPY/S...

Wickberg

<SNIP>Thank you, see how it easy it was just answering a simple question. The IAI EL/M-2060P SAR seems to be a terrific choice. Will the LCA use it as well? Next time, please stick to asking straight forward questions and someone will oblige. Offcourse, but the "But you missed one thing. The f...

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<SNIP>That kind of thing is simply outdated and obsolete. India retired it's specialised recon platform , the Mig 25 and did not go for it's successor the Mig 31. In this day and age, these things are better done with satellites where India has impressive capability, from high resolution optical sa...

Wickberg

Yes, a specialized platform like a recon MiG-25 is obsolete. A multirole-plane however is a fighter that can do all things, intercept, attack and recon. Hence the word "multirole" :rotfl: :rotfl: . Thanks. KoolAid is not my favourite drink. You are welcome to it of course. Have a nice day...

Wickberg

But I wanted to know if LCA had any true recon/camera-pod implemented That kind of thing is simply outdated and obsolete. India retired it's specialised recon platform , the Mig 25 and did not go for it's successor the Mig 31. In this day and age, these things are better done with satellites where ...

Wickberg

<SNIP>Ah, Rafael is a great company. But how come you did´nt use an indigious recon/camera-pod? Was´nt the whole purpose of the LCA to make it as much Indian as possible? MODERATOR NOTE: You're either being dense here or playing dumb by asking the above question to flame bait. And I'll go with latt...

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what is the BVR missile and radar combo on Tejas mk1? is it under testing? 1. Derby is under integration. Rafael had said that they were targeting end of Dec'2014 for completing integration. 2. Astra will also be available for integration. 3. Not sure of R-77. Frankly, don't see the need. Which rec...

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<SNIP>Why is this a reason for it to be this much delayed? Do you really think someone would start on thinking "we will build a 1950s MiG-21" in the 1980s ? No, there were all multi-roles and several projects started at that time area. The only lightweight project that succeded was the Gr...

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Had the programme stuck to its original plan of replacing the MIG-21s with some limited added strike capability ,but an aircraft primarily for air combat with BVR missiles to boot,we would perhaps by now have had a couple of sqds. in service. There was little chance of the program sticking to its o...

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The full multirole Gripen became operational in 1995, the first fully operational division in SwAF in 1997. I have no idea what you are talking about. From day 1. As of 'Day 1', the Gripen A/B had - no BVRAAM - no HMD - no LDP - no in-flight refueling - no Aim-9M (only old Aim-9Ls) - no trainer var...

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1. Because, we had no design experience. SAAB had sixty years of continued design experience. 2. Because, we had to build up an entire range of industry. And yes a lot of the work came from the largely inefficient public sector. 3. Because, we wanted to maximize indeginization with minimum developm...

Wickberg

The LCA programme was doomed for delay the moment it was envisioned to be a mini-maxi-multi-role aircraft ,capable of punching well above its weight . Had the programme stuck to its original plan of replacing the MIG-21s with some limited added strike capability ,but an aircraft primarily for air c...

Wickberg

It might have something to do with the similarities. Two lightweight projects started at the same time (early 80s), single engined- even shares the same engine (kind of), none of them belonging to any of the classic super powers (USSR/USA) nor a European conglemorate. Considering all this it´s not ...

Wickberg

Now Tejas is fine and flying. At this point of time we need to ask some simple questions. Whether Aircraft performs as design and whether it performs well with its counter parts such as Grippen, M2k etc. Q is why should we compare Tejas to Grippen / M2k???? Neither are with our adversaries right no...

Wickberg

I have an outsider view too (inspite of my handle). I actually agree with the gist of your post about LCA not export ready until it proven operationally with IAF. But you come across as a bitter sore loser with your reasoning. There was/is no need to put down others... even after being corrected mul...

Wickberg

As for Mr. Wickberg, I will just put it down to some insecurity and plenty of flaming - some countries have already expressed interest in the tejas, including Germany. Yeah, and India expressed, (how many interests?), during the MRCA despite having several own projects in the pipe. See, this is the...

Wickberg

Yeah, you keep telling yourselves that. Still. it does´nt change the facts. How much you want to draw the racist-card or wathever. The LCA is still not in operational service and its 1st squadron won´t be in years. And some of the people here actually fantazazing about exporting the plane?! And som...

Wickberg

I have not claimed anything else, nor has SAAB. SAAB is just a company who put a multirole jetfighter together with the hopes to sell it, it did and still does. How much Swedish 'brainpower' went into it, considering that the radar was British and the engine American? Because most (ignorant?) peopl...

Wickberg

Almost the same as the Swedes have put into the Gripen. Let us all keep this civil and discuss planes only and not the people behind it. I have not claimed anything else, nor has SAAB. SAAB is just a company who put a multirole jetfighter together with the hopes to sell it, it did and still does. I...

Wickberg

Not trolling, just making observations and comparisons. The Gripen NG can be considered Gripen Mk.5 and Mk.6 and it took some 25 years after the original "Mk.1" and is now getting attention from foreign customers. Considering the annual production numbers claimed by HAL/ADA and the histor...

Wickberg

IAF needs to have at least one squadron operational for a couple of years before you can talk about exports. Sweden tried to sell Gripen to Finland in the early 90´s (to replace Drakens and MiG-21) before it was operational in the SwAF and it failed.In stead they bought F/A-18´s and now they are ac...

Wickberg

What I can't understand is why HAL( aka India) don't try and get more orders from other countries' air forces? Keep the production line moving and people employed! No one has been able to give an explanation why it can't be done. An excuse that nobody wants MK1 is not proven until it is marketed fo...

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Karan M wrote:
Vishnu wrote:Meanwhile ...

Saab and Brazil sign contract for Gripen NG
Thanks but no thanks, we have the LCA MK2 for that requirement of Gripen class aircraft.

Really? You do? I´ve been waiting over 30 years for the LCA and have still not seen one operational in any air force.

Wickberg

Yeah, but I´m old and prefer the electric guitar in front of some "euro pop trash". Some good old Black Sabbath, Dio o or what ever will do it for me. And as I said, ignore responding to retards cause....well, they are retards ((B Ambij)) Anything other than music, arrogance, ignorance or...

Wickberg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tlCx_FTpgI Specially 1:41 in the video. Shows some of the agility. When will we see the LCA do maneuvers like that? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03uOXGny7sI Just for awesomeness. Don't know who made it, but it has some great footage that apparently are from a swedi...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tlCx_FTpgI

Specially 1:41 in the video. Shows some of the agility. When will we see the LCA do maneuvers like that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03uOXGny7sI

Just for awesomeness.

Wickberg

I just finished reading the entire report cover to cover (rather than rely on the tidbits posted or the executive summary). - Rafale is excellent fighter, and is the only one in the pool who can switch from A2A to A2G profile in middle of a mission. Others need configured prior to takeoff . Ouch, t...

Wickberg

Just don´t bother replaying to idiots. The common bharat reader is smarter then that. It´s just that simple.... Wickberg, a little restraint on your choice of words would be nice. I mean there are many who don't subscribe to the views posted by Ambuj. But then calling each other stupid, really does...

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