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I can't see anything. Please post twitter posts properly.

Because it means that if a foreign buyer buys Tejas, the IAF has no argument against Tejas and must support it at all costs and helps HAL spread the cost over and getting that first buyer means more other buyers will come. The very same way that Rafale found success after India became the first...

Finance bureaucracy also have much to do with it too.

Does TEJAS have a gun pod or is it integrated into the wings of the plane?

No but they will supply Pakistan with 5th gen fighters.

I disagree. We need to stabilize the production line and ensure the viability of suppliers. It is all about building that military industrial complex and sustaining it. Dump all the old foreign fighters. MK1A can basically do the job of the upgraded Mirage 2000, Darin 3 Jags and upgraded...

Nope. Modi would have pushed for development of engines right there because he very well knows that India cannot afford to buy foreign planes en masse.

F-35 is a 5th gen fighter not a 5.5 gen fighter

F5 is not a 4th gen fighter by any means. F-16 block 15 is barely 4th gen fighter. More like 3+++ gen fighter.

It is not just temperature but maintaining constant high rotation without vibrating at high operating temperature which is something that AL-31 can but Kaveri cannot.

out of his ass.

Guys get a room.

How would it compare to the F-16 fighter and its engine?

See this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radius_of_action

You are quite wrong. Please review the countless articles of how long it takes HAL to manufacture the LCA planes and how they need advanced notice to be able to deliver the planes on time and advanced deposits to pay for the manufacturing of the long lead items.

Those planes, you could manufacture them in a day. With modern planes, it simply cannot be done in a day. These planes require long lead manufacturing items/components which have to be ordered in years in advance. War will not last that long but attrition will quickly pile up. IAF needs to...

And if you spread the cost over 35 years, it comes out to be 2-3 billion dollars a year.

We can find a way to come up with the money if we indigenize the whole program 100%. We are essentially subsidizing a large job program which we do anyway. If we can afford $30B for food subsidies, we can afford to pay $7B for 15-20 years and pay for 1000 LCAs which include the unit price...

Because we need economy of scale and we are also facing PAF on another front. When you have 1000 you won't have them all operating but most of them will be operational and the rest would be undergoing maintenance and repair. If you have 1000, you will only have about 750-800 planes in working...

@Delta Squad, @Gyyan and @Killbot, Laugh all you want but when IAF is facing over a couple thousand PLAAF and PAF jets mass produced by China on two fronts, you won't be laughing but cursing at yourselves for not willing to take the hard moves to produce the numbers I talked about.