MwRYum
Major
Before Tejas can think about export, there're few hurdles to get through:
1. HAL's own production capacities - can it handle export orders while fulfill IAF's orders within reasonable timeframe?
2. Tejas potential market is flooded with competitions, models that are backed with extensive fleet serving in its home country, or battle tested, or have prior export results
3. With the advent of 4th gen fighters such as F-35, those who could afford will queue up for it, or run joint-ventures to make their own (like the KFX), while those who can't afford will settle with the 3rd gen+ type, even trainers that can double as light weight fighters. How could Tejas cut a niche in such a world?
To be honest, if the Tejas reach serial production stage a decade earlier, there's still chance to score exports, but now Tejas, project which start earlier than the J-10 but reach IOC much later than it, is risking obsolete even with its Mark II model, in dawn of 4th gen fighters era.
1. HAL's own production capacities - can it handle export orders while fulfill IAF's orders within reasonable timeframe?
2. Tejas potential market is flooded with competitions, models that are backed with extensive fleet serving in its home country, or battle tested, or have prior export results
3. With the advent of 4th gen fighters such as F-35, those who could afford will queue up for it, or run joint-ventures to make their own (like the KFX), while those who can't afford will settle with the 3rd gen+ type, even trainers that can double as light weight fighters. How could Tejas cut a niche in such a world?
To be honest, if the Tejas reach serial production stage a decade earlier, there's still chance to score exports, but now Tejas, project which start earlier than the J-10 but reach IOC much later than it, is risking obsolete even with its Mark II model, in dawn of 4th gen fighters era.
