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Monday, February 16, 2009

On drawing board: desi stealth fighter

Medium Combat Aircraft (MCA)Twin engines, an airframe designed to deflect radar signals so it cannot be easily detected, a tandem-seat cockpit over a drooped nose — so what is it? A stealth fighter?

Wrong. Baking its latest pie in the sky for the Indian Air Force, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has unveiled models, mock-ups and pictures of a stealth combat aircraft that it hopes to build one day though its light combat aircraft (LCA) — that is finally beginning to look like what it is called — is more than a decade late.

The models were on show in the DRDO’s stall at Aero India 2009 in Yelahanka, Bangalore.

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1 comment:

  1. Pete18/2/09 23:06

    Meanwhile India is supposed to be jointly developing a stealthy fighter with Russia.

    Lots of talk, finance required.

    Pete

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