[QUOTE=Taygibay;1737565]@ Boom, belated answer, sorry!

Just about anything from R&D and production of the engines
and AESA to setting up a larger plant faster?

Money helps, but right now PAK-FA project is getting all the funds it can burn.
Cliche’ Alert: you can’t expect 9 pregnant women to deliver a baby in a month.

I do believe this has been answered by numerous
“raised eyebrows” posts. I am sorry mate but the
TEJAS is not comparable to the GRIPEN NG. Your
vital project has fulfilled its role of teaching the
industry how to design and produce a modern jet.
That expertise could have been used on making
the NG in India as Junior partners to SAAB as NG
is not in production yet and then as Senior partner
on the AMCA.

No its not. Doesn’t mean mark 2 can’t be. Gripen NG is not made up of phoenix ash and magic potions that cannot be matched up by continuing to develop Tejas. The only thing going for Gripen NG against Tejas is that Gripen NG offers all those capabilities NOW, not 5 years down the line.

somehow i get the feeling that Gripen-Tejas thing is going to generate as many flame wars as Flanker-Eagle, Viper-Fulcrum, and Typhoon-Rafael.

A pure delta can not ever be as agile as one with canards, so they can stop trying

I didn’t say they were trying to do that :p , its the other capabilities of Gripen NG that they are trying to match :diablo: and they will 🙂 :dev2:

To say that there is parity between a Block 52+ F 16 & Rafale F3 or Typhoon T2B with AESA is absurd.

Block 60 may be

If its a fairly modernized f-16, it needs to be respected. If its an f-16 with friendly awacs and tanker support in a friendly IADS, you should respect it even more. If its flown by the best pilots of an air force which has an overall respectable level of training, doctrine and tactics, it can cause enough damage to slow down enemy advance even against overwhelming odds. There is a reason why it is a gold standard for any multirole aircraft designed after it, and despite being the best thing to be invented since sliced bread, rafale and typhoon often have to compete with f-16’s for sales.

Btw I have been hearing about f-16 sales and up-gradation of existing airframes for the past couple of years, how many new frames have been ordered and how many older ones have been upgraded ?

(US ambassador to India) Timothy Roemer announces resignation

wait, tim roemer = scooter ? :dev2:

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could be 😛

very naiis!

a potential high seas battle between J-15s and IN Rafales and MiG-29K.. that would be interesting.

If the chinese can fit a lraam on this baby before indians can fit meteor on tejas-n and mig-29k, the battle can be pretty one sided, unless of course indians do it first.

One thing for certain is that there won’t be problems identifying the difference between aircraft from the PAF and IAF. Future PAF aircraft will stick to the conventional wing layouts while the IAF is going for delta wings.

not if PAF gets J-10, canards and delta wings, i suppose i have seen that somewhere…

This really isn’t a navalized J-11B at all. This is an Su-33 with modern avionics and electronics system for the most part. It’s based off a prototype Su-33 purchased from the Ukraine. Most Chinese aviation forums are pointing out the electronics, radar, and weapons systems though were most likely all Chinese and far newer than the circa 1980’s equipment of the Russian Su-33.

I know that. i just didn’t want to start a flame war :diablo:. Lets not call a spade a spade, rather call it J-15 or whatever designation is allotted to it.

As an aviation enthusiast, I am a little disappointed with J-15. Of course we had been hearing rumors for years regarding an aircraft that has “only a passing resemblance to su-33 and was conceptualized way back in early 80’s and is a totally different aircraft” but i expected the first chinese naval fighter to be based on j-10 rather than j-11. Modifying J-10 for naval use might had made a point about their aircraft designing abilities.