Thanks Yahoo, u proved when the LCA started 🙂

It took the Gripen 10 yrs to get into service, the LCA will enter service by 08, quite frankly that is a normal pace, the Eurofighters and company are still getting their acts together, thebest reason someone could come up with was bad paperwork, at least have an argument that makes sense. 🙂

Arthur, the LCA deltas are not double deltas, the flight performance of the LCA has been more than satisfactory making the use of canards worthless, as far as the nose, it is big enough to accomodate any Zhuk M sized radar and el-op gear, I really do not see your point, its nose is obviously not as big as that of the MKi but it was never ment to be, I fail to see your point, the fuselage of the LCA is chubbier than that of the Mirage, I have seen both up close so sorry I laugh at that comment. I think that Wolverine says the same thing, the 95 LCA is completely different fro the LCA of today, moe composites, more advanced vetrivale avionics, alsonote, that nice pic of the Gripen that we all love to see, the one with the futuristic avionics that floats around, it has not been implemented yet btw, the LCA too will have superb pilot to computer interface with voice recognition etc, the IAF cannot afford to have a force of long range fighters but it needs numbers to patrol the nothern airspace, hence numbers are needed, we cannot afford to have 500 Su-30s.

When the LCA comes in 2 yrs, btw the testing is always slow during thesemonths due to monsoon season, if u have ever been to India, u would know that, anyway, the LCA avionics will be more advanced than the MKI and will be more manouverable than the Mirage 2000, good enough for me and India for our first attempt, the AESA work started and should be completed by the end of the decade as per Atre, list goes on.

Sorry Gripen, no need to get arrogant after you make a comment like “the Euro projects were not delayed by technical difficulties but politics”

Give me a break!

and you have yet to point out where my knowledge of aviation is…..

quite frankly generalizations are bad, anyway I pen off in hopes that you will provide your opinion on this topic, yes I saw your china defence article, ba, a good history paper.

Of course the LCA will not be able to match the MKI, the MKI radar is much too powerful but avionics wise, they are the same, see project vetrivale for details, that is a fact. The Su-30 is a great plane, I will not dare compare it to the LCA except to point out that the avionics are the same and the LCA will have some furthur vetrivale upgrades.

It is getting sad to respond to you on two different threads about the same aircraft, a merge is on the cards, Arthur you are a writer? I have never read what you have written, just for interest sake, can I be pointed to the newspaper you work for? I hope that it is in English too, I think that you are Dutch right? my Dutch is quite bad.

You seem to be attacking the articles because of designations mistakes, can you actually comment on the substance of the article, Arthur, can you? frank? that would be beter rather than poke at E and A anf Fs

I also wonder how long it is taking for a consortium of European countries well versed in airplane design to complete that Eurofighter, I also hear than a furthur large amount of cash will be needed to make the rafale fully multirole, I also hear that the J-10 still uses a Russian engine, its ahrd to make a plane, especially for India which never even had the infrastructure in the first place. So its pointless comparing.

I cannot understand why the two racist clowns are debating about, one look at the ADA website and Alenia is mentioned as having helped with TD)1 and TD-2 wings, ADA in the meantime got a bunch of INdian companies together to manufacture the wings of the PVs with composites and now they can do that by themselves.