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Originally posted by chinawhite
the LCA is a joke the aircraft is a upgraded and smaller mirage 2000 fitted with imported avonics.
Originally posted by Grey Fox
According to this website its not only the planes that are plauging the indian air force with problems but the lack of flight trainers.
IAF Accidents: A Report
The most quoted reason for aircraft accidents in the Indian Air Forces is the absence of Advanced Jet Trainers. It is a valid point but to blame the increasing number of accidents on one factor would be grossly misleading.
One of the factors that often go unnoticed is the poor quality of training and training institutions in the Indian Air Force. Although the air force keeps the reports of various accident inquiry committees secret, it is not a secret that that almost all the inquiries have pointed out deficiencies in the training of pilots as one of the primary reasons for accidents.
(mod edit to reduce copy paste post, please check link for the rest of the report)
I managed to get a picture of their current Air Combant Trainer Program....
As you can clearly see they still using the classic Nintendo Game "Top Gun" to train their superior pilots. ....lol
[edit on 02/03/05 by Grey Fox]
[edit on 11-4-2005 by pantha]
Originally posted by chinawhite
read whole thread
www.abovetopsecret.com...
this is one of the (mod edit to remove inappropriate word from post )aircraft ever made
the LCA is a joke the aircraft is a upgraded and smaller mirage 2000 fitted with imported avonics.
they think the lca is goin to be stealth because it is smaller.
last time i check the airframe is out of date and doesn't have any right angles or RAM
india is better off buying more russian equipment than making their own aircraft. more bang for the buck if i may say
[edit on 10-4-2005 by chinawhite]
[edit on 11-4-2005 by pantha]
Originally posted by Daedalus3
well its great if you can perceive what people mean from what they say..
Sleek "means" --> 1960s lost in space
And for taht matter only a cpl of guys said that..
REad what Alan Jones said..
He knows his stuff..He's working on USAF UCAVs..
c'mon man who you trying to kid??
And the LCA ain't a toy... Its got all the snazz one can pack into a nest little fighter like that..
Capabilities you'd be well versed with if you actually READ any of stealth spy 's informative posts..(read beyond kaveri failures..try at least!! )
India's trying to develop its own engine and the failures are well catalogued because we have something called "FREE MEDIA".. something China is lacking..
Hell even if the J-10 is having MAJOR problems and even if say 15 aircraft have been lost in testing, no one would get a whiff of it, because of the govt. would clamp down on it..
Besides develop your own indigenous engine under the scrutiny of a free media and then see how far you get..
Infact the only incident that the PLAAF has to its international image credit is the one where that pilot was unable to buzz the EP3 properly, and ending up banging into the damn aircraft instead..How did the chinese press/media/govt. handle that one??
They made that guy int oa "matyr".. puhhleassee!!
I've said this before and am fed up of saying it everytime some weirdo chinese guy ( mostly non resident chinese) comes and bashes the InAF/LCA for its shortcomings..
The LCA DOES have a smaller radar signature because of its size and composite materials ( note: not RAM) fuselage..although it was not intended to be stealthy..
Infact the LCA may pack more of a punch than your beloved J-10, but I won't venture and say that since the LCA hasn't been inducted and the J-10 will NOT take part in any AF exercises in the near future...
Thats a real pity because besides printing/publicsing loads of jazz on the aircraft one must be able to judge its practical capabilities via mock combat..
At least a showing in an international airshow would do much to further that cause..
Esp. if the chinese want to market it at the international level...
That will not be tha case with the LCA I can assure you..
[edit on 11-4-2005 by Daedalus3]
[edit on 11-4-2005 by Daedalus3]
Originally posted by mirza2003
Originally posted by chinawhite
read whole thread
www.abovetopsecret.com...
this is one of the (mod edit to remove inappropriate word from post )aircraft ever made
the LCA is a joke the aircraft is a upgraded and smaller mirage 2000 fitted with imported avonics.
they think the lca is goin to be stealth because it is smaller.
last time i check the airframe is out of date and doesn't have any right angles or RAM
india is better off buying more russian equipment than making their own aircraft. more bang for the buck if i may say
[edit on 10-4-2005 by chinawhite]
[edit on 11-4-2005 by pantha]
look like pakis defence site poster come to abovetopsecret
better go to your site baby you better there and dont make mockery
make point why and how
Originally posted by Daedalus3
Chinawhite.. I hearby inform you of the backlash that this thread of yours will receive from all indian as well as neutral posters...
Im a bit busy to reply now but ..
MY MY HAVE YOU OPENED A PANDORA's BOX!!!
Prepare yourself..
Any information form sinodefence.com is not offical its info they get off other sites(not to sure it ifs run by chinese). And most of the information in websites from non chinese sites are speculation there not facts just what they can picture from pictures. its called media clamped very handy
Originally posted by rajkhalsa2004
Hey Chinawhite
Why not try posting your bogus claims and assorted chest-thumping in the LCA thread itself, rather than hide in another forum and rant and rave about the contents of the thread?
Perhaps because you know your claims are absolute BS and are afraid of actual rational discussion (debunking) of the same?
I cordially invite you to post in the LCA thread. Your username/pass should work in ATS as well.
If you are too scared to stand behind your words or worried that all your hot air will be shown for what it is, then, fear not Comrade! I will take the liberty to cross post each and every one of your claims, duely attributed to you, and debunk them in a couple days in any case!
- Raj
Originally posted by Daedalus3
no can't do it on ATS.. they won't stand for such banter..
found this thread finally..
I'm sorry if I scared you chinawhite..Didn't mean to..I thought we were over this.. but Im always up for a healthy arguement..
Firstly stealth involves the LACK of right angles not the abundance of there in..
common sense..
Secondly the LCA has a composite materials fuselage not RAM.. I clarified that in my prev post..
Stealth as everything to do with only one thing..reducing the aircrafts radar signature...whether its size or structure or acombination of both..
Hell if it were only structure( and not size) then one could make the B-52 stealthy.!!
So take that hammer and whck on your own head..
We could go on arguing for ages about whether the LCA has a low RCS or not.. but if you're not open to logic then it a dead end..
And how do I see that you're not open to logic you may ask?
Because you say that "Alan jones is lying".. that unfortunately puts everyone's credibility at stake..yours mine and every other ATS member..
We tend to assume that all members post the truth,
Infact if I were to say the I am an electronics and telecom engg. student (graduate in july 05) who has had 'radar' as semester course and has compared the signatures of an LCA to that of a F-16 and MiG-29, you'd probably say Im lying..:shk:
Only twice have I heard this "he's lying" accusation on ATS.. once from proteinx (who has some negative 2400 ATS opints to his credit and is shunned by his own fellow chinese ATS members) and second is you..
I'm sorry if you feel Alan Jones is lying..maybe you can take it up with him..I wonder what motive would an american have for lying on the behalf of an Indian..
Oh no wait!! Maybe he's an indian disguised as an american on ATS!! :shk:
I use d the figure 15 not as a exact source quoted figure but as a figure of speech.. mainly trying to highlight the fact that the chinese govt. will clamp down on any failures or twist them to seem positive..Its just how communist govts behave..
Infact the Shenzhou(Long March 4) launch wasn't telecast live for fear the the "motherland" may be disgraced if anything were to go wrong on live TV!!
You may check the threads on the ATS aircraft forum which involve the PLAAF hunting for aircraft like the Grippen and Mirage 2000..
They highlight the same theory.. The J-10's not upto the mark so the PLAAF's only built 50 of them..The remaining they hope to purchase in the form of grippens or Mirage 2000s
The IAF had a dismal showing in the 65 war.. I've said that myself..
But 71 was anything but a dismal showing..
Go to acig.org and you can confirm the figures for yourself..
Again the arguement that the Cope India exercise was a ploy to fool the US congress into passing the bill for more F-22s is also flawed..
Some ATS american posters said so themselves..
The USAF has enough F-22 to fit the role the F-22s were meant for..
Deep strike and air superiority..
Besides as I've said before "we" shouldn't think ourselves to be smarter than the US congress to be able to see through a ploy that the congress would be blind to..
"we" give ourselves too much credit.. Its not some kids club we're talking about..Its the US bl00dy Congress!!
And about the IAF only displaying their best pilots while the USAF fielding avg. ones.. can I ask you the reason you say that?? Do you have a credible source?
Or no wait .. Its you're unfaltering intuition that tells you so!!
The same intuition that tells you Alan jones is lying!!
That Zhuhai airshow.. never heard of it.. Did the J-10 fly in it or was it only a static airshow..
Which countires/companies visited??..I'd like some info..
And about that post saying that the J-10 has RAM/supercruise...
I remember it.. and I also remember someone debunking tht claim..
If you could give me a link to that thread we could have it all sorted out..
About the p-3 crashing into the PLAAF jet.. YES YOU WRONG!!
Again do a google on the aircraft forum for this incident.. you'll find many smirks and riling commments on that pilot..
of course the US apologised.. they were the ones spying in the first plae and the chinese were holding their pilots as a ransom for that apology..
What I was talking about in terms of media freedom was flight safety records and aircraft development.. You're Area 51 arguement is flawed..
The J-10 is NOT a secret project..
Projects at Area-51 are secret..
Hell that recent F-22 crash?.. It was all over the Us media..And the F-22 is way more advanced than the J-10..so don't try and compare the Chinese media clamp down to the american equivalent...
THe USAF allows aircrafts way more advanced than the J-10 to scrutinised by the media..Its for popularising their aircraft in international markets..
They don't popularise stuff they don't intend to sell to anyone..
and this statement was soo devoid of grammatics that I couldn't make head nor tail of it..so please clarify..
Any information form sinodefence.com is not offical its info they get off other sites(not to sure it ifs run by chinese). And most of the information in websites from non chinese sites are speculation there not facts just what they can picture from pictures. its called media clamped very handy
finally the LCA will be inducted in 2007.. no later..Where did you get dates like 2010-2015??!!
No wait let me guess!! its your impeccable intuition at work again
I think I've refuted all the claims you made in your prev post.. Your turn now..
And Raj this was posted on ATS but the mods wouldn't have any of this childish banter so they shifted it here..
[edit on 14-4-2005 by Daedalus3]
Originally posted by rajkhalsa2004
Hey Chinawhite
Why not try posting your bogus claims and assorted chest-thumping in the LCA thread itself, rather than hide in another forum and rant and rave about the contents of the thread?
Perhaps because you know your claims are absolute BS and are afraid of actual rational discussion (debunking) of the same?
I cordially invite you to post in the LCA thread. Your username/pass should work in ATS as well.
If you are too scared to stand behind your words or worried that all your hot air will be shown for what it is, then, fear not Comrade! I will take the liberty to cross post each and every one of your claims, duely attributed to you, and debunk them in a couple days in any case!
- Raj