South Korea and Turkey Make Strides in 5th Generation Fighter Jets Development, India's AMCA Program Lags

[Sandeep]

Do consider that this is part of US doctrine: The F-35 has limited internal weapons capacity. Hence, a bunch of 4.5th generation aircraft would launch weapons from stand-off ranges (where the danger to them would be lesser) and the F-35 would then act as a networking hub to lead those munitions closer to the target, ultimately ceding control to the weapons' own internal guidance systems.

They aren’t AWACS so other than guiding our other jets to them with GPS, Navic or radar then they have to fight as a normal 4.5th generation fighter with the rest of them but they will still face the same threats from SAM and A2A missiles.

 

[Sandeep]

India already has 10+ GE F414 engines in inventory.
These are 80% TOT and local manufacturing negotiations.

No they don’t because they haven’t developed a prototype yet so how did they order 10 F414 engines? What were they using those engines for then when they have no jet to use on?

 

[NSR]

No they don’t because they haven’t developed a prototype yet so how did they order 10 F414 engines? What were they using those engines for then when they have no jet to use on?

Go away and have a chat with Akshat, etc