http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article1518094.ece

W. Selvamurthy, Chief Controller, Life Sciences, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), said there could be a good export market for Tejas, the country’s first indigenously built supersonic fighter aircraft, if the Centre okayed it.

Speaking to The Hindu recently, he said the DRDO had already received enquiries for Tejas from various countries.

Mr. Selvamurthy said out of 40 Tejas aircraft ordered by the Indian Air Force (IAF), the Hindustan Aeronautical Limited (HAL) had already completed production of 10. It had already been figured in the inventory of IAF. Another 20 aircraft would be completed after the Final Operating Clearance is given.

It is expected that an order might be received for a large number of aircraft in 2012. HAL had also geared up its capacity building facilities, including assembly line and others.

It planned to increase the capacity to increase the number of aircrafts built in a year to meet the growing demand.

as I keep saying in this thread, IAF orders in batches and 123 is NOT the final number of LCA’s that are going to be ordered.

100,000 = 1 lakh
100 lakh = 1 crore

1 crore = 10 million.

The effectiveness of the ejection seats is impressive. My point was that it’s not necessarily a great selling point(for Mig/Sukhoi) to say- look how often our ejection seats work well.

on the contrary it is a definite + point for russian aircraft. aircrafts crash all the time, whether russian, european, american or tunisian. every air force spends years and millions training pilots and prefers to have planes which give their pilots the highest chances of survival in case of a mishap.
your reasoning sounds like ‘SAR should be phased out because it is bad publicity for the flyboys’ :rolleyes:
even the vaunted raptor is not immune to the laws of gravity AFAIK and has managed to kiss the dust a few times, killing the pilots in the last two instances. perhaps the LM test pilot who died during ejection might not have lost his life on a russian seat ?

IAF IL-76 in addition to daily air India evac flights to libya and egypt.

Loke, which 2.5 ton load does the rafale carry ?

Don’t have that much sadly, but I do believe the Lipetsk and Tambov based units perform that role.

http://www.airforce.ru/awm/agressor/index.htm

Check this out, I’ll translate any interesting parts later, hopefully google translate will be adequate.

thanks a lot, I’ve read this article earlier but couldn’t make much headway with google translate.
I would much appreciate if you could translate the most interesting parts.

only the last item would be a problem.