Apparently the Chinese Artillery have tested a new Surface to Air missile on the Tibetan plateau somewhere north west of Ladakh.

The missile is specially developed to operate from the high region.

This would be problamatic if the IAF were to take a attacking stance.

It will fly and the IAF will find a role for it to suit the short falls it has… So obsolete it may not be… A failed and badly managed project yes.

Other thing to consider if the journalist only mentions TEJAS so he may be talking of the FOC dates of the LCA MK2…

A small possibility…

:rolleyes:

If you actually knew anything about the LCA program, you’d know the A2A missile testing (BVR) is planned for the IOC to FOC transition and will be conducted after IOC. In IOC the rest of the sensor weapons ecosystem, including the radar will be validated.

The IAF expects the LCA to be multirole.

Dont understand your point, are you highlighting how far delayed the whole LCA circus has gotten?

when you have such limited knowledge, why do you pass judgement on something you don’t even have the least bit of idea about !? 😡

Its an opinion just like the opinion you just passed above, i understand your monikar is blackarcher, but it is not any reason to be an internet warrior.

far as I know dumb bombs are in the same family as guided bombs or munitions unless that guided munition is powered.

Whether it is a KAB or something from the US it is still a item that is droped from an aircraft and travels to the destination under gravity and not through any propulsion of its own, unless you start talking of the air to ground missiles.

I also do not think that there is an increase in complexity between launching a bomb with a added laser or gps guidance kit or a bomb with nothing on it. It does not need anythign extra from the LCA to be able to drop one or the other once the wiring etc have been added to the aircraft during manufacturing and the software is in place.

Hence the comment, after all this time, and remember that the first dumb bomb was dropped many years ago, the LCA is still droping dumb bombs and does not seem to have progressed onto anything more complex. It was also a comment taking into consideration the relatively short legs of the LCA compared to the other aircraft in the IAF inventory. it was a comment also taking into consideration that the IAF have aircraft purposefully design to drop dumb bombs and does not need the LCA to do it.

Precision-guided munitions are not dumb bombs, or in the same family.

Why not in the same family? what would qualify them for another family?

I have no problems with the types of bombs the IAF want to drop, and to be honest it doesnt really matter if i have a problem with it or not.

What shocked me was an apparently tardyness in flight testing and getting the aircraft operational, it seems a age since the LCA droped its first dumb bomb.