http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-13/goa/29652692_1_indigenous-aircraft-seater-ashwani-kumar

1,700-seater indigenous aircraft soon

TNN Jun 13, 2011, 11.40am

ISTPANAJI: Union minister of state for science, technology and earth sciences Ashwani Kumar said a 1,700-seater passenger aircraft will be rolled out in the next seven years.

Speaking in Panaji, Kumar said development of the aircraft is in an advanced stage and hoped India will be able to produce this state-of-the-art indigenous passenger aircraft soon.

“This will lead to the development of 34 to 40 new aircraft,” Kumar said. He said this would have a tremendous impact in connecting 2-tier and 3-tier cities. “There are many countries developing such aircraft but India and China are front runners,” he said. The aircraft is being designed and developed by the National Aerospace Laboratory, Bangalore.

Haha, possibly one or two extra zeroes :p in the number of seats

Aha! I think I said this could be a possibility…;)
India to buy more than 16 C-17 airlifters

That would make a total of 24 C 17s…looks like IAF took the spares issue seriously..
Expensive , but there cant be a better replacement for the Il 76..
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IAF must be really pissed off with Ilyushin and really happy with Boeing. Reports suggest that IAF was really pleased with C-17’s load carrying capacity at Leh in summer.

Eurofighter Nations Inch Closer to New Radar Commitment;

Development of an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for the Eurofighter Typhoon is continuing, although the four European partner nations still have not collectively committed funds. However, at the Paris Air Show later this month they plan to sign a letter of intent (LoI) with Eurofighter that confirms their intention to eventually adopt and pay for the new technology.

http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/eurofighter-nations-inch-closer-to-new-radar-commitment-30003/

Swashplate and GaN sounds all good, but when ? I know they are trying to make a quality product, but will it be ready till the time license production starts in India ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-awWSx48KgM&feature=player_embedded

Found this youtube video of T-50 flying around. Notice the car alarms going off when it flies by :p, also it appears to get into a really slow speed just before landing.

(Possibly LAG. Maybe someone posted this already?)

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a5c50cb01-bdd0-41cc-b216-fdc89354eb19&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest

From JAST To J-20

Posted by Bill Sweetman at 1/14/2011 5:42 AM CST

Sometimes the analysis of a new design is one of those areas where you get a whack-on-the-side-of-the-head moment.

This one was induced by the discussion here of the origins of the F-35 design, wherein I suddenly realized what the J-20 reminded me of – Lockheed’s immediate pre-JAST/JSF design, tested in the form of a large powered mock-up.

:diablo: That design has nothing to do with j-20. To those who blabber about industrial espionage and data theft etc trying to discredit chinese effort:

Sure, Chinese did some of that. but the point is even if they did all of those that would not garantee a successful product.

as far as I can tell, J-20 has new structure, flight controls, and new avionics package. To design a new flight control, they had to have good aero- and structure data. They had to stick this thing in Wind tunnels and in CFDs and rework it from pretty much ground up.

In another word, sure you can steal blue prints or you can steal some bits of data, but you can’t get the entire data package that makes up the analysis that goes into the airplane.

To wave off chinese progress on industrial espionage and stealing blue prints really betrays some of commentator’s utter lack of experience in aeronautic industry. :diablo:

BrahMos Aerospace To Add Hypersonic Missile To Lineup

“We Expect to be able to Start the Tests of BrahMos Missiles Launched from Aircraft. Various Types of Aircraft, including Su-30 MKI fighters, are expected to be armed with these missiles,” says BrahMos Aerospace Director Alexander Maksichev.

India also is Planning to Deploy the Air-Launched Version on the Fifth-Generation Fighter Aircraft being Developed with Russia.

Says nothing about miniaturization for internal bays though 🙁

Really? What has changed since the allowance of civil aviation and internal security sectors for defense offsets:
Ajai Shukla link that came up first on Google

Oops, this little piece escaped my attention, I stand corrected 🙂 I wonder what prevented Boeing to get away with civil aerospace in C-17 deal :rolleyes:

Its somewhat ugly for US fighters.

Doesn’t come close to an Eagle or non-CFT old school single-seater Falcon.

You can’t really fit in internal bays, higher thrust engines to counter increased drag, and higher internal fuel for thirstier engines without making a medium sized fighter fat. It still didn’t manage to look like a flying bathtub that J-20 does from certain angles.