Yes, especially Indian birds are a wonderful example of multi-national cooperation among Russian, India, Israel and France. That is the best way to cope with technological advantage USA still enjoy today. I think, such isolationist policy of the States won’t pay off on long term..

Good point. Its high time for a truly international project not a skunk like the JSF. Perhaps the LCA block II could be one. better yet would be bring all the countries together – Germany, France, Italy, Britain, Sweden, Canada, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, South Africa, Ukraine, Brazil, even Israel and Taiwan and build one single fighter. It will take tremendeous cooperation and alignment but nothing in the market would be able to beat such a plane simply on the basis of economies of scale and scope.

Not in their eyes unfortunately they can’t look reality straight in the eye. :rolleyes:

Isn’t that sweet. I love your attitude urmomma158, we need more of you out there to give us all a reality check with those airburst nukes. I go back on my last post, you should post more often and impart your wisdom to us. 🙂

Ohhh I can’t wait ! 😀

That sound very interesting ! Does that mean that there will be some airframe related modifications (“panoramic view and stealthy features” :confused: ) similar to the FC-1 04 prototype or are these for the final serial standard ???

By the way what’s the latest progress on the twin-stickers ??? When will the finally fly ??

Thanks in advance, Deino :rolleyes:

Yes, Deino the new panoramic view will be installed in the Latest version of the LCA. Our Indian friend Nick_76 has revealed this in his last post here and the evidence of the following article:

From Newindpress:

HAL to go into supersonic mode
Monday May 15 2006 00:00 IST
BANGALORE: Five years after the first indigenous developmental fighter took to the air after complaints of time and technology gaps, the defence PSU – Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) – has now decided to go into supersonic mode.

HAL chairman Ashok Baweja told this website’s newspaper that the fifth prototype vehicle, trainer and the first of the eight Limited Series Production (LSP) will join the programme this year. These aircraft will help accelerate the initial operational clearance for the LCA.

On Saturday, PV2, among a cluster of four jets built, turned supersonic with air-to-air missiles on board. Scientists of the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) said it was a big leap forward in the project as the jet was now propelled into operational test light mode.

‘‘As for the LCA project, it is a war-room like situation at HAL. I am getting daily inputs from officers on the progress made in the project,’’ the HAL chief said.

HAL has now taken up the challenge to complete the eight LSPs and 20 more aircraft within three years. The IAF will induct these delta-winged world’s lightest fighter aircraft by 2010 to replace its ageing fleet of MiGs.

The PSU’s focus now is on stepping up the pressure on this strategically important project to ensure that there are no further delays. Three more aircraft, which will join the test flying envelope later this year, will increase the number of aircraft used for certification.

In all, four LCAs, two technology demonstrators and two prototypes had logged over 525 flights.

Not just HAL, but even the ADA has accelerated the programme to the next level by putting a radar on the aircraft and is taking up a weaponisation programme by fitting pylons on the PV2.

The PV2 is a much lighter aircraft and possesses advanced software technology, unlike the Test Demonstrator I, II and PV1. There is a quantum jump in the build standard of PV2, which is a software intensive fourth generation combat aircraft built to production standard. Besides having a high percentage of composite materials in its airframe structure, it incorporates a state-of-the-art, integrated, modular avionics system with open architecture concepts to facilitate easy hardware and software upgrades and re-usability.

The avionics system of Tejas PV II provides excellent pilot vehicle interface in a glass cockpit which has an all-round panoramic view to reduce the pilot’s workload and to increase situational awareness

PS: For those who want to inquire about my nationality its readily available in my past posts.

And its sad that my patriotism of the LCA is being questioned, with the new panoramic view and the stealthy features being incorporated (as revealed by my Indian friends in this forum), this is the next aircraft to gain widespread admiration, globally. 😉

PPS: for those who don’t know, PLA – Peoples Liberation army has been used by a very larg number of groups from Africa to latin America to if I recall, a group a few decades back in india. Granted, that the PLA term is most famously used by the chinese armed forces, it might be less wise to assume things outright. 🙂

PPPS: I request again for some pics, in case none appear I will post my pic, that I can exclusively reveal to you from my sources, is the new LCA – Light Combat Aircraft. I will also reveal an industrial collaboration with a foreign country to turn the LCA into a new and improved airplane that cannot be rivalled by MiG-21 copies 😀

Ah yes. One of my favorite documentary films of the cold war. :p

LOL Watch it buddy, you might get this blog shut down by giving away such highly sensitive information 😀

Dude that’s called Firefox. Clint Eastwood stole one from Bilyarsk in Russia 😀

LOL. how about that other movie I forget its name but this plane that can turn “invisible” and it crashes into the sea in the end.. Eddy Murphy is like a famous boxer.. making much sense?

urmomma158: I’m not an expert just another hack posting posts. If you’re so sure about stealth then just sit back and laugh at the fools who aren’t. Relax. 🙂