Who wins in a fight (BVR and dogfight)? F-18 or Mirage-2000?

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had a skim through and there doesnt appear to be any reliable sources to support the idea. just a bunch of rumors and speculation.

its kinda like the rumors of thousands of J10s being planned, its just random numbers until someone can get some decent material to back it up.

Thank you for the response. 🙂 I was a little surprised by people already saying that J-10 was a “transition fighter.” I was like WTF? :p

I heard on the World Armed Forces Forum that China was cutting J-10 production to 200 orders. What do y’all think?

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AVP felt really short and the Predators got punked. 2 1/2 stars. 🙁

So I am supporter of just setting up another production line for the LCA and doubling the production rate to make up the nos. Special stuff like the new french A2G munitions, laser pods etc can be purchased and integrated. prices wont be cheap but
cheaper than buying a foreign airframe and engine also…

If that can be done, it sounds like a good idea. Import US engines and build the rest yourself. That helps out HAL and keeps the money in India. This should improve the product as well, since HAL gets the profits from government contracts, gets to re-invest in LCA, and by putting all the pressure on HAL, it should force them to turn out a product faster/on time and work out the bugs.

A simple question deserves a simple answer

The LCA will only be operational by 08 and HAL cannot produce more than amount x per year of the plane, especially in the initial years, in the meantime older IAF planes will still need to be retired, hence……., the IAF also wants to increase squadron strength asap, note the term asap, now you should get the picture why “Hindustan” does not only go for the LCA.

So, LCA w/o Kaveri will only be operational by 08?

I found this audio report to be very informative.

If that doesn’t work try this link and scroll down to Iran’s Military Power:

http://www.csis.org/

China IL-76

Is China able to construct IL-76 from scratch? I thought not. 😮