Seriously, how is it possible that both Gripen and LCA flying on the same engine (in fact Indian F404 in20 has marginally more thrust than the Swedish one), similar weight class can have so much difference in range, flight time and weapon load.....Unless ADA completely sucked in the aeroframe design, we just designed a flying brick. I doubt IAF would have made such a statement, and if they did, they must have assumed everyone else is a grade A duffer.Barath wrote:An old question that came up.
https://thediplomat.com/2017/11/indian- ... ian-skies/
IAF talked of 59 minutes of combat endurance for Tejas vs 3 hrs for Gripen and ~4 for F-16. and payload of ~3 t for Tejas vs 6+ for Gripen and 7 for F-16
Also serious questions to some AE guys here, LCA had issues and inefficiencies due to area ruling etc. (rectified in mk2), is the design that bad? Is there some hidden info about LCA that is not public? The above statement does not past muster even a smell test