From the HinuTimes article:

“In 2008, Kaveri was de-linked from its original platform, the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). Earlier this year, senior scientists said it would be used to fly unmanned air vehicles of the armed forces. Its derivatives could go into powering ships, too.”

IIRC dry thrust was good but AB thrust abyssmal when it was decided to call on foreign help to get the engine design completed. A deal with SNECMA failed to materialise so that fell through.

Saab Presents Sea Gripen At NAMEXPO

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/148367/saab-presents-sea-gripen-at-india-show.html

STOBAR and CATOBAR capability planned. SAAB seeks “active partners” for development.

It’s a shame this was not available 5 years earlier – the RN might have chosen it over F-35 with Brazil a possibilty and India not an impossibility. Given SAAB’s excellent track record in developing Gripen, it would be reasonable to think that a Naval Gripen could be developed at low cost and pretty much on schedule.

EADS Still Hopes To Sell Eurofighter To South Korea

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130926/DEFREG01/309260015/EADS-Still-Hopes-Sell-Eurofighter-South-Korea

What chance is there of SK finding Typhoon acceptable? Almost none, it seems to me. However, if Boeing are now disaffected and have lost interest (if),and LM won’t come down on price to a level acceptable to the politicians – they set the budget – then who knows what could happen? Leasing a load of Typhoons surplus to requirements and developing a 5G fighter with EADS input might be a possibility.

I’ve figured out that the world would be a much better place if everyone brought F-35.

It would certainly be a big benefit to all who work on designing and building other fighter aircraft – they would no longer have to put up with the tedious process of going to work Monday to Friday. 🙂 Not so good for LM employees, though… 🙁

I will be very, very surprised if it does not – along with almost everyone else, I think – unless SK sees the Eurofighter consortium as preferable to Boeing as a contributor to indigenous fighter development.

Anyone care to guess the odds for F-15 and Typhoon being selected? Does 80:20 sound stupid?

It appears that both F-15 and Typhoon bids for the South Korean fighter contract came within budget while F-35 failed to do so and is effectively ruled out.

The final decision will be made in a meeting of experts and government officials slated for in mid-September. No specific date has been confirmed.

In its bid, Boeing has stressed the interoperability of the F-15 SE with other models purchased in the first two stages of the fighter modernization programs. Seoul has purchased 60 Boeing F-15 fighter jets since 2002.

It doesn’t offer the same radar signature reduction as an F-35 and is only optimized for air-to-air combat stealth. What it does offer is greatly improved radar stealth over the F-15K and internal weapons.

While EADS’ twin-engine Eurofighter is not equipped with stealth, EADS says measures were taken to reduce the Typhoon’s radar cross section, especially from the frontal aspect.

EADS offered an investment of $2 billion in Seoul’s plan to build its own fighter aircraft and assemble 53 planes in South Korea to boost its aerospace industry.

If Eurofighter is selected, it will be the first European combat jet deployed by South Korean Air Force.

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/08/16/28/0301000000AEN20130816005600315F.html

Does Typhoon have any real chance of being ordered?

I do not think AESA is a direct counter to stealth a per say . It is rather that its characteristics enable to better cope with the detection of LO and VLO. Most notably directionality & power management (avoid to be detected by the whole planet when pumping the watts to find that LO guy ) , frequency and wave length agility (to which LO VLO feature react with more or less success ), and ultimately better power output for comparable sized legacy radar . So AESA contribute to Stealth , rather than countering it and its most significant contribution is that it is way more difficult to fool.

If AESA has the qualities you mention, I hope Eurofighter are thinking about sticking it in the Typhoon. If it does end up in the nose of Typhoon, how will its potential performance compare with other AESA´s? I believe the number of send/receive modules is the basic governor of potential performance. How would that number in Typhoon compare with other fighters?

If a deal can be agreed – and detailed negotiations have been under way for more than a year – then the six states (Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait) would sign a multi-billion-pound contract to buy Typhoons and military equipment.

sooo, that would be the mother of all defence deals if it were pulled off (which I think is unlikely). Having said which, it is not inconceivable that we could see more Saudi Typhoons, more T3s and UAE Typhoons in the near future…

wonder what that would do for the Typhoon production line….;)

Seems strange to me that a potential deal for arms involving the agreement of 6 different countries has been under serious detailed discussion for over a year with no report of this before (unless I missed it).

What would make sense to me would be if the countries concerned studied ways of sharing support/integration costs etc should they all opt to buy Typhoon.