How can we talk about price when the engine remains a question mark, the radar price is a big question, the exact avionics package etc are also unknown? Ifyou can provide figures for the above, then and only then can we discuss until then 15M looks to be quite an impossible price for a fighter aircraft with today’s prices.

i’d like to know wether the IAF is actually taking the LCA seriously?, first of all i dont understand the hype about this aircraft, if the IAF were so comitted to buying this aircraft why have they launched a bid for 120+ 4th generation aircraft from the international market?

Simply because India is a fast growing economy and can thus afford to buy a lot of new fighters to increase its force levels and to MAINTAIN CURRENT FORCE LEVELS. :rolleyes: We also pay for it with our own money.

I think that to make the scenario more plausable we should put some budget constraints here, say a USD 2.1B air force budget per year with 705 of that going to maintainance and ground crew pay etc, you get the point.

Che is known to make the most intelligent comments around here, let it be. 🙂

Yet another moronic article from Pandit. Pakistan is to the west and China is to the north, hence the AD network is concentrated in these sectors, how can you get to central India without the two potential threats passing through the North or West? Nice one Pandit.

Also the threat from the South? Sri Lanka? The probability of war with the USN is NIL and the Chinese Navy will have to get passed Nicobar islands anyway… Sometimes I wonder about Pandit, does he make a living finding non existing problems, first his Arjun BS now this…

The Oacle should know that this is just negotiation, both India and Russia know that they need each other and they will sign the deal in the end, don’t worry India is not about to loose Russia as an ally as certain forums would warn. :0
sorry Oracle ji

Noone is saying that France will not sell to Pakistan, there is howeverrealistic observation of Pakistani finances, we had the same discussion last month, Pakistan still has to honour IMF financial reform demands which are still in place as precondition to get off the “bankrupt list” of states, remember two years ago anyone?

Hence it is more practical for Pakistan to buy either from China due to nice payment facilities and cheap prices or the USA due to a nice spread in payment facilities and US AIDE all of which is not disclosed to the public.

Sameer

AVM’s statement reflected individual thinking and not collective PAF decision. In the next paragraph AVM was also quoted as saying ‘we would always consider western aircraft for the pure reason that those technolgies are mature’. PAF may have simply made is choice due to the facts that an active BVR is PAF’s current top priority (PAF needed it yesterday) and that there were some anomalies with Grifo S7 which need some time for correction and integration of chinese or other weapons with western systems would require even more time.

Vias, I have absolutely no problem with what you say, it is rather more logical and rational