Two RAF Tornado GR4s collided mid-air and crashed

A helicopter airlifted two airmen to a hospital in Inverness while efforts to find the missing pair were called off due to poor visibility and bad weather.

“The search and rescue phase of the mission was terminated at 7.04pm yesterday evening,” Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesman Fred Caygill said.

Its always been Lca Navy or NLCA or Naval LCA , Navy might have a different name for it

Ready for what, flight testing? :rolleyes:

There are other projects out there, but if they’re not flying already, they wont be in service before 2018.

TD (Technology Demonstrator) aircraft’s for first flight,and even AMCA will have two TD aircraft’s and then Prototype aircraft’s, so real thing will come out only in late years of this decade or next

i think they will be service partner , since aircraft’s too have warranties:dev2:

As per Nikhil T @ Br has come up to $166 mn per Rafale (20 year life cycle costs) approximates to $69M each, without the annual maintenance costs.
and So Typhoon was nearly $41 mn more expensive than the Rafale per bird. This includes all costs though, not just the sticker price.

IAF wanted aircraft with higher endurance mid way as usual , DRDO selected Embraer after inputs from IAF on their requirements and after all negotiations was done and Embraer was all set to be ordered , IAF asked DRDO to select a bigger aircraft with higher endurance , but DRDO asked IAF if they were ready to face delays since again new aircraft needs to be selected and then negotiations and re-design and all other things , IAF asked for a Refueling probe which was added and agreed to settle for that , but asked DRDO to go for a bigger plane . So no one forced IAF to settle for this particular aircraft. they are happy with it for now but want some thing of Phalcon type awacs , and DRDO’s has worked with bigger aircraft’s for awacs roles particularly ill fated Hawker Siddeley HS 748

MMRCA pie was every one wanted to have , but have left many dis pointed , saab still hopes to sell gripen , Russian still pushing mig-35 , us topping it with their f-35 offer ,i blame Indian government for not listening to IAF , to many aircraft’s were involved and only RFI / RFP were not send to china for J-10