The Sad Tale of Tejas!

[harpy1]

Yes, your quarter century old article has put all Indians to shame.

I'm curious, do you do this for a living? Scour the internet for anything negative about India all day, no matter how trivial or irrelevant? I sure hope you get paid for this.

It's called desperate envy and insecurity
I here 40% of the thunder fleet is grounded in the past with big structural issues
Then the fire control weapons radar is not working
So
Now they are trying to get another single engines fourth generation fighter J10c
They tried the cheap route with thunders and have realised they wasted billions on a fighter that probably won't fly beyond 3000= hours IE 15 To 20years without the airframe falling apart
It's cheap alloy materials...They cut corners
Now they will try and induct block Three versions but have decided it's not inducted by china so we better go get a proper fighter and ordered the best china currently has the J10c
Now this is why India will build it's own at home it's wiser more secure route rather than get fleeced for cheap fighters TBF we had issues with russian stuff in the past especially mig 21

I think there have loads of thunders crashing in Pakistan and Myanmar also has issues

Myanmar raises issue of grounded JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft to Pakistan

One of the Myanmar Air Force's JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft. Photo c/o The Irrawaddy. The Myanmar Air Force’s fleet of 11 JF-17 Thunder ...

www.asiapacificdefensejournal.com

 

[vkdindian]

I'm curious, do you do this for a living?

Every person has a right to make a living. Please don’t question that.

 

[Chandragupt Maurya]

It is not. Not by any metric.

Why not ? What are those metrics ?

 

[Musings]

I’ve been on the forum world for at least 15 years. In these 15 years - my Indian friends have come on here frequently tell us the plans they have regarding the airforce and they will build it and make it home grown and they will conquer the world.
Guys it’s always tomorrow and there seems to be incredible delays. Hoping one day it delivers.
For the time being I thing we can rest this rather informative thread