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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Meanwhile India is supposed to be jointly developing a stealthy fighter with Russia.
ReplyDeleteLots of talk, finance required.
Pete