The Americans are offering an F414 cousin for AMCA Mk2, competing with the British and French engines.
For LCA and TEDBF, ADA/HAL seem to be fine with the standard 98KN version.
I'd definitely like to see the 116KN version on the SH and AMCA Mk1.
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The Americans are offering an F414 cousin for AMCA Mk2, competing with the British and French engines.
For LCA and TEDBF, ADA/HAL seem to be fine with the standard 98KN version.
I'd definitely like to see the 116KN version on the SH and AMCA Mk1.
ToT of design is different from ToT of assembly, maintenance, overhaul and testing.
Damn looks like Super Hornets are coming for our Navy. Buying American fighters and becoming over dependent on their engines is a disaster in making. Very sad
Surprise with more delays or order a massive 10 samples.LCA MK2 will be available in early 2024, after a one-year delay.Perhaps they are just planning for a surprise to be given something during the election time
Tejas mk2 has been delayed no doubt about that and same with amca and imrh as well. Main culprit here is the ccs who is deliberately delaying the approval.
The design was all reviewed and finalized only in November 2021. So there's no way the 1st prototype would have been built by now. Its not possible. Even for stabilised production lines, it takes upto 24 months for completion of the aircraft.
So untill we get the 1st prototype within 18-24 months from November 2021, that's between May and Nov 2023, we are perfectly on time.
And it will take 40-60 days of ground testing before 1st flight. So add a couple of months. So till we get the 1st flight in January 2024, we are on time.
And then we will need on an average around 800-1000 hours of flying, so between 4 prototypes, that's approx 200 hours each , so we should be able to complete the certification of the airframe in 5 years from 1st flight.
And then CEMILAC and other certifications for Quality Assurance etc will take a year.
So by 2030, we should have Tejas MK2 ready for production.
This is a very reasonable time. And when we do this, we will outdo LM, SAAB, Dassault. No one has ever developed a 4.5 th gen fighter in this short a time.
16 Countries Interested in LCA Tejas Mk2, Efforts on to Identify Private Agencies to Speed Up Production - News18
The 4.5-generation fighter aircraft, a more advanced and lethal version of the LCA Tejas, is in design and development stage at present
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We might need to host a gala event to promote all domestic A2A and A2G weapon systems during the launch of the first LCA Mk-2.
16 Countries Interested in LCA Tejas Mk2, Efforts on to Identify Private Agencies to Speed Up Production - News18
The 4.5-generation fighter aircraft, a more advanced and lethal version of the LCA Tejas, is in design and development stage at present
when it happens lets talk about it. Dont think HAL will let it go so easily. They will be more interested in having order book filled for next 50 years.
16 Countries Interested in LCA Tejas Mk2, Efforts on to Identify Private Agencies to Speed Up Production - News18
The 4.5-generation fighter aircraft, a more advanced and lethal version of the LCA Tejas, is in design and development stage at present
HAL, ADA and everyone including HVT has explicitly told they ll deliver at certain time ( as decided by ccs) after deal is signed.
Putting ball firmly in CCS court.
This test pilot is behaving like sales man. Something is delayed when promised timeline changes.
The same ADA people promised roll out this year and first flight next year.
Roll out is on track by mid 2022. From interview a year back.
They switched to giving realistic timelines after CCS clearance. Before that the were just selling the idea.
We need to go for the EPE upgrade. And buy around 100-150 superhornets and growlers.
People overlooking mistakes by HAL/ADA are like indian liberals who support triple talaq. "We are fighting a bigger evil" . 
Any Suggestions How Can we improve accountability Of HAL/ADA/DRDO?
One is to privatize. Any other??