WTF is this?

Answer questions and fly an advanced fighter jet

A Swedish defence firm has brought to Indian combat aircraft lovers an opportunity to fly one of the world’s most advanced multi-role fighter jet after answering some questions posted on the company’s website.

The winner will be flown in SAAB’s most advanced multi-role fighter aircraft, the Gripen, during the Feb 9-13 Aero India air show in Bangalore.

http://www.sify.com/finance/answer-questions-and-fly-an-advanced-fighter-jet-news-default-lbmxEiahggc.html

Su 30 MKI – interesting load out of R 73 , R 77 and FAB 250s.All dummy of course.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/abhishek_photography/5074642142/in/pool-1186583@N25/lightbox/

Looks like a mish mash of several attack helos and the length looks closer to Rooivalk rather than Tiger or Mangusta.The stub wings appear quite large.The exhausts are open invitation for manpads but probably will get a IR suppressor.

India-maybe keen to acquire the capability

Well..this is from March last year..

According to Admiral Walter F Doran, president Asiafor Raytheon, Indian officials had already been briefed on “this latest radar, for highly effective 24-hour surveillance and target acquisition capability”, India Strategic magazine reported in its latest issue. The system is being operated now by the British Army and Royal Air Force (RAF) in Afghanistan with five ASTOR aircraft and eight ground stations.
Admiral Doran is quoted in the magazine as saying that Raytheon, a military technology giant, had also submitted a formal proposal to the Indian government. He declined to give details.

US offers latest airborne radar to India

dunno what came of it though..

I think most of the orders to date have comprised only single digit numbers, or very low double digit numbers at the most.

Well the first Dhurv was delivered in 2002.In 8 years number of deliveries+ordered:

Domestic –

Military: 110
Civil: 26

Export (Civil+Military) ~ 30.

So in total 166 birdies.Pretty good actually.
[The actual numbers are probably more than I calculated.Check later]

There are many reasons .Like this one where the MEA prevented the sale of 7 dhruvs to bolivia due to some stupid reason!
http://indiadefenceonline.com/735/mea-rejects-hal-plan-to-export-dhruv-to-bolivia/

LRDE LSTAR radar for CABS AEW&C

all the information are floating around, you will see what you want to see.

Not really !:rolleyes:I see what is there in the picture.My eyes can be bad but I guess this is not a forum filled with blind people!!

in the case of weapon bay, a single line in the picture could tell many things.

That single line can be either a PSed one or a true one.I cant see you being able to give points in favour of either.

if you want to prove the J20 is a inferior fighter, it is just a line PSed. or there is indeed a weapon bay, and the photo was PSed to cover the truth.

well what a joke!its got nothing for me to prove lol.It can be either way but from the present picture I just dont see it.Now if you want me to see the picture and imagine things then say so please!!Or else be happy with whatever is other people’s impression about it.

So, do you see a PSed line OR a weapon bay from the picture?

I have said it before havent I?All I see is a faint line .Dont really know whether its PSed or not and also if its not PSed , then whether it means something or not.

So, you honestly believe it’s simply poor “marketing” that’s holding the Dhruv back from winning more international orders?

Interesting.

What do you mean by “more”?
Dhurv has already been exported to 7-8 countries.
There are a lot of factors to consider eg . US coercion to buy US stuff.
This is true for all categories of non US aircraft , not only helicopters.