no, what’s sad is your inability to understand simple english. :p

total requirement is for 400 which is split down the middle among a foreign acquisition and HAL.

Some have suggested that IAF is interested in larger platforms for the Phalcon like the IL-76 compared the Gulfstreams etc on offer by Israel.

So in case of us running out of IL-76 what platform would be ideal ?

as i.e says, civilian airliners make the best AEW&C platform because these are the most efficient designs for plain flying. AEW and tankers for that matter do need the extra oomph that transport platforms provide and it makes for inefficient use, high fuel costs and maintenance requirements etc.

IL-76 is a rather poor choice in that regard but makes sense in a way because IAF already operated transports and tankers on the same platform.

As for the C-17 I was saying as they augment the airlift fleet, India may be able to use one of their IL-76 (send them to Israel) for conversion.

that’s like using a tank for pizza delivery.

hottie has a twisted sense of humour which I like.

Teer, you have got mail.

Wasted capability don’t you think ?

absolutely. the cause was the financial crisis in India in late 80’s which put paid to any jaguar style agreement or even a direct buy. the fulcrum number got stuck for the same reasons. when the financial conditions stabilized and IAF wanted the mirage-2000-5, russia offered the su-30, which won out in the end. this was severely criticized at the time with headlines like “IAF buying a plane which does not exist”.
when IAF again asked for mirages around 2000 the deal went nowhere and dassault closed the line.

Can’t India just build their own light helicopters? isn’t that what the Dhruv was designed for?

dhruv weighs more than double the fennec, different category altogether.

the LUH is for utility roles, as the name says. total requirement is for 400 which is split down the middle among a foreign acquisition and HAL.

aww, poor babies. what does the journalist think these helos are for ? transporting miss world contestants from their beaches at sea level ? :rolleyes:

if anything, the conditions look really light to me, the siachen pioneers, which would be one of the units operating the light chopper are based at 10,000+ feet

who writes this trash ?

£120-125 million

would make it as costly as the JSF. 😀
over the full production run unit cost for both should be around $ 80-90 million.

There you go dear quadbike, cite this credible source in your research.

No bids were opened for American, Russian and Swedish jets, so how do these “Sources” know they were much cheaper. Go figure.
Forums seem to be more accurate than these news papers. …LoL

what do you know ? the reporter is published in TOIlet, so what he says must be true.
ooooooo I am so impressed.

even though the saggers aren’t particularly user friendly when a mass of tanks are charging your position because the missileer has to guide the missile manually.

for the doubtful usefulness of classic tank charge there is the battle of asal uttar from 1965 war where a 100 tanks were lost, most of them american supplied pattons.