Have some fresh air and Open UR mind Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide as possible BlackCAT(Seems Difficult!?)
its as usual set to set to INFINITY
Are HAL scientists foolish to go in for GE 404,when RD33 was available?
India just did not say yes to untrusted American Cooperation(in early days) just to make Americans happy,when Russian help was easily available!!!!
well they would have been foolish if they for some political reasom had selected the RD-33 which was not fully developed as much as the F-404 and also neede to have that frist rounds of feedbacks from the operational units of miG-29s too …. which only started to enter in the mid-80s , that again was a reason, but if there was a political wil, it would have been a joint development where by RD-33 coming in as the engine for the test flights of the LCA etc etc probablity
Had been so simple to change an aircraft engine India would have done it long ago!!!
but there was no reason to do that coz its only in 2001 that the first one flew and the FBW etc orkd was underwayduring the late eighties and ninties in the US an integral part of which was the selected F-404, now they could have even gone for the most credited Mirage engines too, but then there wa no sweetness that was sprinkld in the relation with French, else I don see as to y they should nothave selected the mirahe engine and Dassault facility
And Now answer this:
Even when America applied sanctions,Never ever RD33 popped up as probable engine for LCA!
yup saw it…. america applied sanctions and the poor guys who worked in there was not even allowed to take their papers along with them on their return trip to India!
and how many times did u see the LCA fly between 1989 and 2001?
there simply was no need to as we already had some stocks of the F-404 and work was already statred on thet amd it would have been cost overrun in heavy terms goin back to getting more RD-33 whose initial experience was not good. and Y should the RD-33 again pop up for the LCA when the sanction come-in???…. what was Kaveri then for??….to show that yes we can build ebgine too ….but we wont use them??….
Why would India go in for expensive and unreliable (in terms of Availaibility due to US attitude not performance vise) Engine !?
and u forgot that we had enough engied b4 US had its sanctuon on us, and also work was goin on with that engine which was already selected which dated back to the good years of 80’s and u say the F-404 that we have was the performancewise best engine that was there at that time?
Yup! RD33 Has improved .And I already said that to Alezx.Even IAF ACM agreed to it while reffering to MiG29M
as …..”New Aircraft is wonderfull,new aircraft supports less smoky Engine,better fuel efficiency……………….”
k whetever it is, the RD-33 what u see now had its work completed like the MiG-29M way back in 89 or say was to getout , but that got delayed coz of all the crisis and did not come out, like the TVC RD-33 whose initial service entry was 94 which now seems be coming out only by 2005-6 if all goes right
“amd if I am not wrong the kaveri, RD-33, F-404 all are in the same league in size though some varationa might be there.”
Blackcat adjusting to those some variations also requires mooore time…… Something India surely now lacks of !!!
Regds :rolleyes:
Infinity
ofcourse i know, its not that easy either … but ur countering ur own approach there coz Kaveri is not yet ready and what do u think the code for that has already been wirtted ???….. and how much time will it take for it to be integrated to LCA? … and if going by way LCA would be far from having a kaveri engine coz of the huge task (not that Im teling its an easy thing) wont enter service by 2010
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