Existing western engines includes powerplants of rafale, f18, f15, f22. etc etc. Capabilities include fuel Effficiency, abilities to supercruise n maintenance friendly etc, you can also add other capabilities. I just mentioned Russians claims, ok.
Item 30 is a fifth gen engine and Russian even claimed it to be of sixth gen technology, when it is ready it will be at par with any current western engine exist so far.
At the moment Kaveri is in limbo. We need to pump in more funds to leverage r&d for engine hot section. For that private and public sector should go hand in hand. We need Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) materials to enable kabini to achieve the highest core temperature. They should also use 3D...
Fifth gen fighters are just like snipers in an infentery army team, so they cannot manned all the entire airforce so is their small numbers among other fighters in the intelligent airforce in the world. Modern fifth gen fighters are all about high end sensors, supercruise and stealth. Western...
Su 57 is evolving into a future fighter. So some countries will definitely jump into its bandwagon because they know it's only the cheaper and comparable alternative to f22. Therefore, India shouldn't let it slip away from its palm. A lot of business opportunity is also at stakes in this...
I never commented on the dead or alive of FGFA but on the nature of this thread. FGFA baseline aircraft su 57 is developing into a potent platform. Due to lack of publicity stunt as compare to its Western counterparts it seems less attractive, but if fully matures it would only be f22...
No this thread is alive and kicking but hibernating because everybody is damn busy talking about Western and American beauties like rafale and f35 etc instead of this ruskies beauty but they don't imagine and realise that this dark horse beauty will be defending indian sky and creating havoc at...
Indian version of su57 that is FGFA will be a better combat AC by having a total of 43 improvements including stealth, advanced sensors, networking and combat avionics. Moreover, Russian expertise in titanium structure will be complemented by india's experienced in composites like the fuselage...