
Just to give an idea on how difficult the conditions are to supply aid in Nepal..Dhruv having landed on a narrow terrace
“ndicated that LCA Mk-I pilots would be like sitting ducks in battle, vulnerable to fire from 7.62 mm machine guns, specially at the front-end of the aircraft.”
What is this stupidity?
exactly- the CAG is an auditing body that doesn’t possess any real domain knowledge in this field, so when reports highlighting such “glaring deficiencies” appear in the media, one just waves it off as really poor auditing.
But the poster who brings it to the IAF thread and the Tejas thread and highlights it goes to show his own level of intelligence and ability to interpret sentences. Clearly he only posts when there is a negative report on the IAF or the Tejas, sometimes without even bothering to read what it is, just as long as it’s negative. We already know that and most people choose not to engage the troll.
the CAG would’ve given a similarly scathing report about even the F-22 on similarly flimsy premises..lol.
Why not choose the JF-17? It has DSI. None of the previous contenders for the Swiss AF had DSI.
oh God..RIP..:(
this will be a big blow to the A400M’s image..Airbus was banking heavily on export sales to happen beginning this year.
And now Saab really is rubbing it in by offering the Gripen as a Typhoon replacement in Austria..:D
How they’d manage to finance such a sale when they don’t want to pay to keep their existing fleet of Typhoons flying is beyond me. Why would the Austrians need to replace perfectly viable T1 Typhoons meant for the air policing role anyway?
Just how ridiculous could it get?! Replace Austria’s Typhoons with Gripens??
Procurement programs are blundered all the time. Sometimes accidentally, sometimes not.
It is no great secret that as an interceptor, Typhoon is in a different league to Rafale.
what special sauce does the Typhoon have that makes it in a “different league” as the Rafale? Supercruise? Well then, how come the Swiss evaluation didn’t rate the Typhoon as highly as the Rafale in the Air Policing mission then?
Rafale score – 6.71 vs Typhoon score – 6.2 vs Gripen C score – 4.2
Does that seem very likely to you? 😉 (Although to be fair the hold-up isn’t usually with the IAF.)
As for Australia, the budget next month should be interesting — although not quite as interesting as the budget a decade from now. As usual, the government has been writing cheques it can’t cash. We could well end up in an Austria-type situation of having lots of expensive toys that we can’t afford to use.
Well, the new PM-DM combo isn’t one to dilly dally..since the options to purchase additional C-17s already existed in the first buy, this order can be processed quickly, as the follow-on 6 C-130J order proved. No new tender required, no competition.