Chronologic examination of the past


Chronologic examination of the past
ah ha.. these are two issues here.. so it is entirely not a problem of DRDO vs. The Forces.. but the GoI/MoD playing the bad regulator part.IAF has been lobbying to have one of its men at helm at the HAL to improve coordination and working efficiency between the two as several critical projects like the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT), Fifth-Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) are running behind schedule.
However, the Ministry of Defence did not heed to this demand and instead went ahead with the time tested formula by appointing a Chief selected by the Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB).
Among the programs which the IAF wants HAL to prioritise is the IJT.
The initial operational clearance (IOC) for India’s locally designed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has been further delayed to mid-2013, postponing its active squadron service with the Indian Air Force (IAF) to 2015, if not beyond.
Officials said the LCA was expected to obtain full IOC after participating in the IAF’s ‘Iron Fist’ air exercises at Pokhran in the Rajasthan desert in February 2013.
“Tejas will display its capabilities during the exercise when its [weapon] lethality and precision will be tested,” Air Marshal Anjan Kumar Gogoi of South Western Command said on 24 August.
IAF officials estimate the single-engine LCA will eventually secure IOC by mid-2013, with final operational clearance (FOC) following in 2015.
Pathetic.arijitkm wrote:Tejas IOC pushed back to 2013
The initial operational clearance (IOC) for India’s locally designed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has been further delayed to mid-2013, postponing its active squadron service with the Indian Air Force (IAF) to 2015, if not beyond.
Officials said the LCA was expected to obtain full IOC after participating in the IAF’s ‘Iron Fist’ air exercises at Pokhran in the Rajasthan desert in February 2013.
“Tejas will display its capabilities during the exercise when its [weapon] lethality and precision will be tested,” Air Marshal Anjan Kumar Gogoi of South Western Command said on 24 August.
IAF officials estimate the single-engine LCA will eventually secure IOC by mid-2013, with final operational clearance (FOC) following in 2015.
I would say sad, but considering the bureaucratic and Establishment enemity which the programme faces, late is better than never.merlin wrote: Pathetic.
Why single out the 'babooze' when the Services have numerable examples from reluctantly supporting DRDO projects to downright killing the ones that actually succeed? And why not the DRDO that has innumerably given deadlines out of a hat? The delays for the past 3-4 years haven't occurred because of the 'babooze' but its the scientists who have not been able to deliver. Plain and simple.SaiK wrote:babooze can kill anything.. but it is a national shame to say that., and the only cause is that "WE" the people made them. For how many more years are we going to be keep complaining about baboo did this and that.. ?
WE know they are like that? then why???? get them to where they are now and killing everything WE Like?
ie, we still have $1b odd left for dev.. half of that should be on Kaveri imho, and the rest on augmented versions.As of March, the LCA had undergone more than 1,816 test flights up to speeds of Mach 1.4. Initial Operational Clearance-1 (IOC-1) was achieved in January 2011. According to the Indian defense ministry, the Tejas has undertaken weapon trials, including flights with a laser-guided bomb. Various sensor trials also were conducted early this year. All told, the Tejas program has clocked 1,903 flights, totaling 1,120 hr.
The Indian air force (IAF), which has ordered 40 Tejas Mk-1s from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), has begun to induct the LCA, according to a ministry official. Out of the 40 aircraft, 20 were ordered under the IOC standards, with the rest under Final Operational Clearance standards. IAF plans to induct six LCA squadrons over the next 10 years, the official adds.
The first two squadrons, comprising 40 aircraft, will have first-generation Mk. 1 fighters. The additional four squadrons would be more-powerful Tejas Mk. 2s. The final price tag of the Mk. 2 only will be available after its development phase is complete , the official says.
The Indian government so far has approved 118.45 billion rupees ($2.1 billion) for the development of the Tejas, of which 50.51 billion rupees has been spent, the official says.
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1. It is neither Russian model nor the Indian model that fits. American model is what that is needed for technology and management sense, and our babooze can still maintain parity in political sense.Philip wrote: ! In Russia and elsewhere the heads are sacked for failure,but our political bosses treat such results and their godfathers as "sacred cows" ,with the scams behind them swept under the carpet for obvious reasons.
Forget about the LCA arriving even by 2015,with babus heading the project instead of IAF officers,the results will be the same "time tested " ones that we've experienced after decades of delays and thousands of wasted crores of taxpayer's money...as for the FGFA, the Russians with Putin's "prod" up their nether ends,will somehow ensure success or suffer a Siberian retirement!
Were the CLAWS 'Developed' by/with/at USA or was it merely In the process of being tested/verified at the facilities available there when the facilities hired and paid for by India were rudely snatched from us?krishnan wrote:Do you known what happened to the software that was developed with khan ????
AESA, AESA based EW suite, Large displays, IRST, if needed optical locator systems, are available right now off the shelf and quite a few JVs are underway, LCA mk-2 will have a lot of off the shelf components, there is no need to develop everything our selves, LCA mk-2 with the GE F414 won't need TVC since that engine allows high A0A performance naturally. Whether we pick a derivative of the EL-2052 or the Vixen radar, we'll have full-TOT on it. 2015 is not an unreachable target. Moreover, work is being done in all these areas on LCA mk-2 certainly is not just about a new engine.mody wrote:Setimus... not sure if your post was rhetorical or not. If it was not rhetorical, then maybe you need to change the timeline for the MkII with all the features that you listed out.... to 2025, instead of 2015.
assimilated as seized!krishnan wrote:Do you known what happened to the software that was developed with khan ????
LCA Tejas Mk-II To Have Indigenous AESA Radarsuryag wrote:Strange there has been no news of the bird for more than three months nowhope things are fine and going well
-Ankit...but at the recently concluded International Conference on Energising Aerospace Industry, got to know that the AESA will be on the Mk-II, indigenously built, making the Mk-II a full-fledged multirole fighter, besides other stuff like new avionics and airframe.
I don't think any software was developed "with" Khan. It was being tested in Khan and was making F-16 behave better than before when the plug was pulled.krishnan wrote:Do you known what happened to the software that was developed with khan ????