The Indians HATE Their New Russian-Made Stealth Fighter

War is Boring ^ | January 22, 2014 | David Axe

[molson209]

ROLF , jokes on you

[Hulka]

“. . .in practice the Sukhoi-made stealth jet is also too expensive, poorly engineered and powered by old and unreliable engines.”

In other words, normal-normal for Russian aircraft of any make or design.

[Jeff Chandler]

Yeah, they should stick to their casinos.

[C19fan]

One would thing the Indians would of learned that lesson buying all the Russian crap since independence.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The Indians will end up just designing and building their own.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[red-dawg]

So, who do the Indians call for tech support?

[Hulka]

You would think they had a brain, especially since they have bought American before (C-17). . .but apparently not.

[Hulka]

Which will be as bad as the Russian design. . .after all, they would be copying a bad design.

I expect the Indians to get taken again when they buy production rights from the Russians so they can build their own.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Just imagine what the Mahindra knock-off is going to look like.

[Zhang Fei]

All the same, Business Standard speculates that the Indian complaints could be somewhat politically motivated, as New Delhi is also planning to buy 126 new Rafale fighters from France for an eye-watering total price of $18 billion. Scrapping the T-50 could help India pay for the French jets.

Maybe the Indian brass are tired of buying Russian junk just to keep the special (India-Russia) relationship going. Holding weapons procurement hostage to foreign policy considerations can be painful if the gap in reliability/capability is too great.

[golux]

“The Indians’ complaints illustrate the yawning gulf between stealth warplane design and the actual production of radar-evading jets.”

This one had me totally baffled until I read:

“In other words, it’s one thing to sketch an advanced warplane on paper. It’s quite another to build one and get it to work.”

[neodad]

That’s funny right there...

[John Valentine]

Yeah, they coulda had the F-35! LOL!!! ROTFLMAO!!!

[John Valentine]

Which will be as bad as the Russian design. . .after all, they would be copying a bad design.

Do you actually know anything at all about the T-50 design? It appears to me that you do not.

[golux]

So, who do the Indians call for tech support?





In Soviet Russia, INDIANS call for Tech Support!

[Little Ray]

Sounds like the Russians sold them the “monkey” version.

Well, they got a great air-frame. Just need to replace the avionics and engines and they’ll have a great plane.

[null and void]

So, who do the Indians call for tech support?

Peggy, duh Da!

[Hulka]

To paraphrase the article, you can draw a nice picture but building one is a completely different thing.

Their T-50 design is not DEEC and still has issues regarding low speed, high AOA throttle movement.

But I defer to your insight.