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Brumby

Brumby

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aksha said:
well,he is the author of the article. a writer for CNN IBN.
he is one of the most accurate reporters on india's indegenous industry,along with Dr. Ananthakrishnan M ,Shiv Aroor and Vishnu Som.

as for inexperince in aerospace industry ,their main trouble is engines,but the engines for the AMCA will bought from abroad,
RFP for engines will be issued somewhere around february 2015.
i hear that both GE aviation and Eurojet are interested in participating.DRDO will do the thrust working changes on the engines selected

as for AESA radar the DRDO's project UTTAM is going on well, and FOC will be in december 2015.
if things were not going on well they would have announced the buying of the Israeli ELM 2050 by now.
infact UTTAM is just one of the three projects going on.


and i beleive the indians will have help either from Russia or the West ,or maybe even both.

but in the end ,yes the the programme is very ambitious, but the prototype may fly in 2021, after all the tejas first flew in 2001
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The main missing piece in the puzzle for me is trying to understand the strategic rationale of both the FGFA and the AMCA program being pursued concurrently given that both are 5th gen airplane. Given the overlapping and enormously expensive proposition of such programs, there has to be some significant strategic reasons for taking such a path. My question is simply what is it because I cannot tell from the description of the programs?
 
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Brumby said:
The main missing piece in the puzzle for me is trying to understand the strategic rationale of both the FGFA and the AMCA program being pursued concurrently given that both are 5th gen airplane. Given the overlapping and enormously expensive proposition of such programs, there has to be some significant strategic reasons for taking such a path. My question is simply what is it because I cannot tell from the description of the programs?
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i think the AMCA is to the FGFA ,what the F35 is to the F22,
besides they also need a fifth generation naval versin.
 
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says it is prototype 7,
if a bar brother is correct it is the first FGFA
 
shen

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Brumby said:
The main missing piece in the puzzle for me is trying to understand the strategic rationale of both the FGFA and the AMCA program being pursued concurrently given that both are 5th gen airplane. Given the overlapping and enormously expensive proposition of such programs, there has to be some significant strategic reasons for taking such a path. My question is simply what is it because I cannot tell from the description of the programs?
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The real overlap I see if between Rafale and AMCA. Cancel the Rafale deal, increase Su-30MKI production for the short run. Work with South Korean KF-X program for AMCA.
 
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On the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft of which there was no mention in the recent joint statement, embassy officials have said negotiations to sort out the work share are going on and an agreement is likely as early as January.

Russian officials said that Russia is open for equal work share but stated that “Russia has problems with the Indian demand. If India has the ability to provide certain design knowhow and technologies we are open for equal work. But this may not be so as seen with the case of Light Combat Program (LCA) and the aircraft under development is a Fifth Generation program.”
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aksha said:
Anyway, here's the AMCA late iteration (3B-08) from the NAL Director's report.


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Air Force Brat, Tphuang,
would like to hear your opinions about the design
thanks in advance
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sorry, too many unknowns for me to say anything useful. It does seem to be a conventional layout like FC-31.
 
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