The DRDO and HAL are reportedly eyeing a prominent role for EADS in the development of the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA).The organisation's Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) has considered offering the company $20 million to help increase the aircraft's flight envelope and attack vector.
"We have proposed to award the contract to the EADS to help us in carrying out the flight trials of the aircraft and see how its flight envelope can be increased," a DRDO official told Indopia.
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The poor old Tejas is already out of date. Its been in development for decades. Would have been hot in the mid 70s, but now? Its about 3 decades behind India's Flankers - soon to be Indian built.
ReplyDeleteIt is clearly a technology mount to keep some areas of DRDO busy.
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ReplyDeletenovi avion like many other
indian projects(like 3d rohini
radar is design bought from
polish radwar company)
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http://www.afwing.com/intro/novi.htm
That seems to be a common problem with Indian weapons development programs of all kinds. Equipment languishes in development endlessly and costs a fortune when it finally gets fielded. I think that the whole state-run armaments industry has poor oversight from Parliament (though the military often takes a stand at trials time). It's more a matter of prestige and creating jobs for technical graduates than actually making working weapons. Remember that India is deeply concerned with a "brain-drain" to the West, especially the US, and the sight of a domestic fighter on display, even if its combat utility is second-rate, is political gold.
ReplyDeleteAbolish DRDO, give its top scientists, technicians and facilities to some solid private defence company. These netas will offcourse never let it happen, because defence purchases include bakhshish for election funds.
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