flyingorca
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no, that design was not based on mirage 3 but Atlas Cheeta was based on mirage 3 not this one
Do you guys even do any basic research before posting?
Externally, the Carver bore some resemblance to the Dassault Mirage 4000 prototype;[3] the design drew upon several elements of Dassault Aviation's Mirage family, including the decision to incorporate a number of Snecma engine components which were produced under licence in South Africa.[5] While being a heavily indigenous effort, partially due to the embargo, South Africa was able to acquire substantial assistance on Project Carver from both France and Israel; many aerospace engineers and designers were hired from these nations, while technical information related to Israel's aborted IAI Lavi programme was also acquired under the Israel–South Africa Agreement.
All delta wing designs are going to look the same. The hard part is getting things to the right proportion and using the right materials. No Western country is going to hold your hands all the way. Not even Russians. At the end of the day, you have to design, test, find problems and overcome it. If we simply copied some western jet as it is, we wouldn't have issue mass producing them. But Tejas had issues, that's why there was MK1, 2 et al. MK2 feature Canard delta wing design which are not present in MK1.
i never said India is copying European designs as it would result in India getting sued or even kicked out of western defense market. What India is doing is hiring western consultants and contractors to assist them with R&D thats why their is striking similarities with Arjun tank with Leopard, Dhruv with Eurocopter EC-145 and LCA with Swiss ALR Piranha.





















