Its implausable as we have no documented evidence of collaboration between Romania and China in respect of the IAR-95 or Super-7. On the other hand we do have documented evidence of the work done by Grumman with Chengdu prior to the cancellation of support by the USA after Tianamen square.

In the end the IAR-95 looks a bit like the Super-7, nothing particularly unusual by that its happened before and it will happen again.

is there any documented evidence of Israeli transfer of design and data on the Lavi to the Chinese ? It has all been speculative mostly and yet it is fairly widely accepted that the J-10 is based on the Lavi with modifications made as the design progressed.

This subject has been debated a million times already on this forum, don’t know why you need to go through all this speculation again;

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=47954

Yeh, you’re right, it bears some resemblance to the IAR-95, does that mean there’s any association, real answer is who knows? But using your own logic, the LCA has a striking similarity to the M2K, does that mean it’s a downsized M2K….erm, ok, bad example given the level of ‘consultancy’ provided by Dassault :dev2:

debated a million times on this forum ? Show me a few of those threads please. I googled and found just 1.

And no Indian will take offence if someone says that Dassault’s initial consultancy as well as BAe’s P.106 designs had a hand in the LCA’s layout. In the days of its original design, India didn’t even have many wind tunnels to test out models in and it was a costly exercise to build models and schedule time at wind tunnels in France (ONERA) or other European countries. Help would’ve been taken gladly.

So why would it be so implausible that Romania shared the IAR-95’s designs with China or at least in some way influenced it ? They were both communist nations back then and several reports talk about MiG-33 designs having been sold to China as well. I can see that even suggesting that the FC-1’s strong resemblance to the IAR-95 may have had some more basis than just coincidence is pricking a lot of people.

Mock Missle labelled SD-10A on 7th picture by Rookh, Its lying of grass beside aircraft.

It confirms what I have been saying all along the this plane has BVR capability. OK its not 100% confirmation because it is just a mock up, but I dont think any company would advertise SD 10A capability, if it was not true.

I bet someone will still cling to idea that KLJ 7 rardar cannot fire BVR missiles despite seeing Radar brochure and this.:rolleyes:

so since there are umpteen Tejas LCA models with the Astra BVR missile, that is proof that the Astra is also integrated and the Tejas already has BVR capability..:diablo:

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did China get the blueprints for this design in the early 1980s after it was cancelled by Romania ?

seeing these pics of the JF-17, the JF-17’s similarities with the IAR-95 design of the 1970s is quite striking..with the exception of the DSI intakes the layout of the wings, fuselage, nose are all very similar, and even the LERXes that were added on later. Its almost like a copy of that design..

Just read on some Pakistani website that their contingent commander has confirmed that the JF-17 will not be flying..something certainly happened due to which they cancelled the flying displays. Pakistani HC was wrong after all..:rolleyes:

it depend on Korea… but just look at how long india need to finish their project such as LCA and their Arjun tanks, and how fast Korea creating the T-50,, Korea would be very-very hesitated to cooperate with India. Both have too different pace of work when come to military stuff.

the only reason KAI managed to finish things on the T-50 was because LM hand-held them on it all the way from start to finish. I know guys who worked on the T-50..a very large portion of engineering work was done by LM engineers and independent contractors. But, to KAI’s credit, they’ve picked up very fast. But had they only recieved a little bit of outside help, there was no way they’d have finished the T-50 anywhere near on time..

its no coincidence that the T-50 is so similar in layout to the F-16..heck, KAI even used the exact same OML and blade design as the Cougar on the Surion.

Designed by designers where it was not their first foray into fast jet design?

but first of all let him prove that the LCA is 800 kgs heavier. the Gripen C/D is nearly 6600 kgs empty..how is that 800 kgs lighter than the Tejas Mk1 as is where the empty weight figure is around 6500 kgs ?