GD, Japan exports nothing related to the military, yet they
have gone ahead and developed some of their own including a
small AESA radar for F-2 thats better than the hundreds of
F-7, F-6 etc thats been exported. If you are prepared to pay the
cost, a large domestic order is enough to stimulate quality.

Willingness to sell to anyone doesnt have a logical
link to the quality of products.

Compare systems for their specs and known merits and demerits. Most of the countries you state cannot afford to buy anything more expensive or better not even from russia because russia has long stopped making mig21 style planes and the western utility a/c are not cheap.

Mavaustin, consider for example the A-darter IIR TVC AAM that S.africa is working on and PAF reported to be interested. china has no comparable product to even consider.

PAF has a large enough fleet of F-7,A5 and F6 that the argument for commonality with MirageIII doesnt wash. They could easily have fitted PRC avionics on this and the large fleet would justify it.

all RU systems have been cold launch so far. even the
gigantic 48t Topol-M system.

any details on the H2 and H4 bombs – or did he mean missiles?

rah rah. great work.

So when may we buy it 🙂 ?

This thread will serve the signal purpose of clipping anyone’s wings next time they try the same thing. its a free progapanda opportunity handed
to us wicked indians.

All the info is open source and there are a lot of indians here with seemingly plenty of R&D time 🙂

http://www.hal-india.com/Aerospace/aboutus.asp

The division has the technical expertise to fabricate large size Aluminium Alloy riveted structures and welded propellant tanks. Currently under production are the Light Alloy Structure for the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), Geo-stationary Launch Vehicle (GSLV), Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS)., and the Indian National Satellite (INSAT). The division is also manufacturing the structures and welded tanks for the Cryogenic upper stage of GSLV. For the future, the division plans to take up full equipping and integration of the strapon stages of GSLV and also manufacture all structures for a larger GSLV MK III vehicle.

I believe Midhani also makes the nuclear bomb parts 🙂 it was on the
list of sanctioned entities and certainly produces stuff like the Agni and
prithvi missile casings, the composite black re-entry vehicle and such.

a green helo would stick out like a sore thumb.

while the F16A/B airframe of 1980 is broadly the same as the Blk50+ of 2000, their capabilities are much different.

One musnt look only at the airframe but whats inside. The LCA
is designed to be better than the early 1980s fighters — it can take advantage of all the advances in radar, weapons, electronics, avionics etc that have happened since then and has done so.

Astra AAM is a separate product and doesnt matter because R77
is available in quantity now and that will be its first bvr AAM.

You cant compare a $20 mil airplane to a $175 mil platinum bullet
or JSF. Its ok vs the potential enemies in the region.