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Originally posted by mirza2003
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dont read what yo want read only
same paper
deccanherald.com...
Deccan Herald » News Update » Detailed Story
LCA development on schedule
Bangalore: UNI
A senior Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Scientist asserted that despite marginal time delays, the indigenous development of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas was going on as per schedule.
The development and the test flights of three of the prototypes-- Technology Demonstrator one and two and Prototype one were proceeding smoothly, the scientist said, adding that the fourth aircraft, Tejas PV2 was likely to take to the skies in a month's time.
Taking to newspersons here on Saturday on the sidelines of the Annual General Meeting of the Bangalore Chapter of the Aeronautical Society of India, Mr J K Sharma, Chief Executive of the Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (CEMILAC), the certification authority in India for military aircraft, informed that the weaponisation of the multirole fighter aircraft was also progressing well.
He said the eight series production order from the Indian Air Force for Tejas would be ahead of schedule and the fighter should be ready for induction into the IAF by 2010, as per the revised development schedule.
Originally posted by mirza2003
read the last para
Originally posted by siddarthpanditv
oh boy here we go again more india bashing
Ok it is thier first indegenious aircraft.
A lot of aircraft projects have taken longer than this and have endured critisizm similiar to this.
here is some info as some one requested , start here:
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by bodrul
all you will get is from stealth and china white is both bashing each other's countries on most topics
thanks for the link
see they had problems with this from day one
its early day's
and there are always countries that need a cheap alternitive to their air craft
Originally posted by Stealth Spy
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Thursday confirmed an order for 40 Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) with the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), including 20 opitional purchases at a total cost of Rs 4000 crore.
well the J-10 is apparently stuck with production problems as the israelis did not transfer any technology related to its production. So the LCA might beat it to production. And while the Kaveri has recently passed all tests after its problematic past the chinese copied engine is still not proven, nor has any J-10 fitted with it flown.
So much for LCA bashing, take a look at your own thing before you start flaming around...as i recall "A person living in a glass house should'nt throw stones at others"
and i've also read interviews with the HAL chief saying that Chile may be intrested in the LCA, but i honestly believe that although the Tejas has export potential it is very premature to talk about the same
Its no secret that the LCA's development was painful with teting setbacks in its engine & radar and that it uses some imported parts but if someone says the LCA took 20 years to develop, so its a bad plane as some participating ex-chinese have previously said, then tell them about how thier j-10 too took ~20 years to develop and was marred by problematic and solw development and had crashes, one of which even killed its chief test pilot.and all this depite significant russian involvement and over the widely known fact that it is nothing but a modified version of cancelled israeli Lavi.
that it is nothing but a modified version of cancelled israeli Lavi
However, it ended up being a modification of Israel's Lavi
A number of photos and drawings of the J-10 appeared on the Internet over the past few years. Some of the earlier images included here turned out to be fake. Usually these were retouched photos of the 'Lavi'. This might have been a deliberate attempt to promote the belief that the J-10 was a derivative of 'Lavi'.
Indians are "a slippery, treacherous people", said president Richard Nixon. "The Indians are bastards anyway. They are the most aggressive goshdarned people around," echoed his assistant for national security affairs, Henry Kissinger. The setting: a White House meeting on July 16, 1971, during the run-up to the India-Pakistan war which ultimately led to the birth of Bangladesh, erstwhile East Pakistan.
Originally posted by chinawhite
[heres where stealthspy quotes his things from
www.geocities.com...
look at this site. un-updated from 2002. links are all from indian websites.
stealthspy
that it is nothing but a modified version of cancelled israeli Lavi
from site
However, it ended up being a modification of Israel's Lavi
no wonder this guy doesn't have a clue what his talking about most of the time his sources are all un-updated.
here stealthspy update your reading
A number of photos and drawings of the J-10 appeared on the Internet over the past few years. Some of the earlier images included here turned out to be fake. Usually these were retouched photos of the 'Lavi'. This might have been a deliberate attempt to promote the belief that the J-10 was a derivative of 'Lavi'.
www.aeronautics.ru...
Come on chinawhite, although some people deny it, isint it common knodwledge that the J-10 is based on the Lavi's design ? i mean i can post that whole series of sources saying so which i have done alredy posted a few times...i mean your own source also says so.
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