Simply because the Bison has a smaller Kopyo radar and is much less manouverable than the J-10, less TWR, shorter range, etc etc, use of composites ……

I am a big fan of the J-10, its look is quite catching and its specs do in deed match up with the Su-30 series in PLAAF service.

Aster30 is also quite a bundle of rupees, maybe one system per battlegroup, so about two ships in total for the Gorshkov and ADS battlegroups.

Ah, its good that they have incoorporated an IRST and if the sd-10 is being sold, I do believe that the pL-12 is another missile as well unless it is a longer ranged sd-10?

Before the last thread ended with insults, I had asked about the flight certification process of any Chinese ac?
How man flight hours does a fighter need to complete in order to be certified for airworthness?

For example the LCA needs 2000 hours of testing

thank you

The Americans kept the FBW stuff after 98 nuclear tests and the whole damn thing has to be rewritten, hence the almost 2 year delay.

Do they plan to equip one of the future escort ships, maybe the Bangalore class ships with a longer ranged theater air defence missile in the same league as the S-300s?

Also I thought that the Gorshkov could take on more than 20 MiGs, do they plan to put some Harriers on bord in stead and won’t that cause a bit of a maintainance headache?

It should simply be 250 J-xx, 500 J-10s, 500Su-30s and 300J-7As

Why have the FC-1 when the J-10 is present

If we are to use 1US=43Rs

Each Tejas costs about 23M US, not bad at all.

Is there a timescale of when these 40 will come and does that mean that the LCA has completed enough flights that the IAF is now satisfied that the plane testing will be a success and that the capabilities shown already are satisfactory.

Its true that you would want to get in range where your missile is at its most effective, the MKI could simply have radar off, the Phalcon would guide it, once at optimal range, radar goes on and missile flies away, the enemy plane when evading a missile will have to pull off some hard turns, beaming manouvers etc, he may have to jetisson his big loads,tis not easy to evade missiles these days, the MKI will be the dominant fighter of the sub continent, add datalinking, Phalcons and most importantly, which airforce has had more BVR experience and has had more exercises with foreign countries, that would be the IAF and yes of course a IAF vs PAF conflict will end in considerable losses on both sides. The IAf will loose many strike acs that had to get low and meet the MANPADS, Crotales etc. The FC-1 will be effective operating in its own territory, no doubt about that.