Myanmar last March became the second
export customer (after Pakistan) for the FC-1 ‘Xiaolong’ light multi-role
combat aircraft (MRCA) when it inked a contract with the Chinas Aero Technology
Import-Export Corp (CATIC) for an initial 12 aircraft along with a cockpit
procedures trainer, while retaining the option to procure another 12 at a later
date.
Deliveries are scheduled to begin in December 2017 and these FC-1s will
eventually replace Myanmar’s existing Xi’an F-7M Airguard and Nanchang A-5IIIC
combat aircraft, which had been procured in the early 1990s.
The FC-1’s formal R & D process
began when Pakistan inked a procurement contract
with CATIC in 1999.
The MRCA’s design was frozen by China’s 611 Institute
in February 2001. Subsequently, six flying prototypes were built by the Chengdu
Aircraft Corp (CAC). The first prototype was rolled out on May 31, 2003 and its
maiden flight took place on August 25, 2003. The third prototype, built to
series-production standards, first flew on April 9, 2004. The fourth prototype flew
in April 2006.
The first tranche
of six FC-1s, known as JF-17 Thunder Block-1, was delivered in flyaway condition
to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) between March and April 2008.
Following this, a
supplementary contract for 42 more JF-17s was inked on March 7, 2009. Of these,
only the first two were delivered in flyaway condition, while the remaining were
supplied in semi-knocked-down (SKD) condition to the Kamra-based Pakistan
Aeronautical Complex (PAC). The first PAC-assembled JF-17 was rolled out on
November 23, 2009.
To date, CAC has delivered 50 JF-17
Block-1s and four JF-17 Block-2s (featuring a fixed aerial refuelling probe),
with another 46 JF-17 Block-2s due for delivery by 2020. CAC is building them
at a rate of eight per year.
The RD-93 turbofans for both the FC-1 and its
JF-17 version are produced by the Moscow-based Chernyshev Machine-Building
Plant, a subsidiary of Russia’s United Engines Corp (UEC) and supplied to CATIC.
The PAF plans to procure 50 Block-3
versions of the JF-17 in the following decade and each of these are likely to be
equipped with a FWS-13 Taishan turbofan (now being flight-tested on board an
IL-76MD testbed at the PLAAF’s China Flight Test Establishment at
Xian-Yanliang air base in Xi’an, Sha'anxi province), passive electronically
scanned array multi-mode radar (PESA-MMR) along with a CATIC-supplied infra-red search-and-track (IRST) sensor and a
Sicong Group-developed helmet-mounted display system (HMDS).
CATIC is presently developing the
JFT-17, a tandem-seat operational conversion trainer that is expected to make
its maiden flight by the year’s end.
Data On FC-1’s Avionics Suite
FC-1’s Weapons Package
The CPMIEC-developed CM-400AKG supersonic
air-launched ASCM has a terminal cruise speed of Mach 3 and a maximum range of
120km.
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To SAURAV JHA: Just as I had explained yesterday, all these documents being leaked by Pakistan to the BBC etc etc are proving to be fakes & unauthenticated:
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-326515-Mirs-statement-not-part-of-record-London-police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkp3rDYzjS8
Looks like someone or some party or some country is determined to make a fool of Pakistan.
To KAKU SH> The issue was indeed raised 48 hours ago by Pakistan's civil society. It's all here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0_yImPqPRI
And finally, do weatch this interview of Lt Gen Hamid Gul, according to whom all the ills afflicting Karachi are due to the CIA. Also closely note his self-righteous remarks about why Pakistan towers above all other Muslim-ruled countries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcKeTdk3lZg
To JAY BHANUSHALI: Many or most have assumed that India is against the implementation of CPEC in toto. That's not true. What India has stated that since China regards Arunachal Pradesh as disputed territory & therefore is denied infrastructure development financing, the same principal ought to be applied to PoK too, since that is disputed territory as per UN regulations. The Chinese now are in a bind & have no credible explanation for this. From late 2009, in contravention of UN resolutions, China has shown the whole of J & K (the India-administered part) to be disputed territory--which is not what the UN resolution of January 1949 says. The term 'disputed' applies only to the PoK part, since the legality of the Instrument of Accession has been officially recognised by the UN. Therefore, when you confront any Chinese official with such factoids, he/she will go on the defensive & will starting making diversionary remarks about China being even-handed & willing to undertake infrastructure development projects in J & K as well. Thus, such explanations come out as reflexive defence mechanisms aimed at saving face.
To PARTHASARATHI: VMT. The truth eventually sets us all free, as the saying goes.
Sir, Why is it that India is not developing an armed variant of the RLV-TD or AVATAR so that we can wreck havoc on our enemies from space.
Would be highly obliged if you reply.
Thank you
There is an international agreement not to use space for defence purposes....
Hope F-36 will be better than F-35.
Prasunda, 1. idrw.org/indian-army-scraps-the-worlds-largest-assault-rifle-tender/ .... What next? I have heard that Army is now thinking for a 7.62X39mm caliber rifle. Is it AK-103? 2.What should be the most rational approach to meet the assault rifle requirement of army? 3. Central paramilitary forces often procure their weapons without much hiccoughs, why the same route could not be followed for army? 4.Apart from assault rifles, tenders were also floated for submachine guns, light machine guns, sniper rifles and heavy machine guns. What would be the optimum choices for those categories? Thanks in advance.
hi prasun
your prediction of the indian made multicaliber rifle being adopted seems to be coming true as the tender for rifles has been scrapped.
Even the US army seems satisfied with the latest m4 carbine that has been battle tested and all special ops seems to use that , they seem to be in no hurry to replace it as the cost is extremely high to procure a new rifle whilst getting a marginal improvement.
I think we should hand over the insas and the multi caliber rifle to a competent design bureau like H&K, to re engineer the rifle like the brits did when they could not de bug the sa-80 rifle.Now the brits have a good rifle.I feel it will be cheaper to get a well made 7.62 x 39 rifle from the russians or the Israeli ace rather that fix idiotic specs that no army in the world specifies.
how did they manage to refit the sindhukirit sub without russian help ??.
comments please
See MSMC firing 0.43 sec onwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=49&v=eTCeswe33-0
To UJJWAL & RAD: If a country cannot develop & produce a decent family of small-arms & ammunition, then that same country has no moral right to claim designing & developing MRCAs or MBTs or warships or n-powered submarines. Therefore, it stands to reason that India has no choice but to develop multi-calibre assault rifles & related carbines, GPMGs etc. This is an area where cannot be any compromise & any importation of such hardware ought to be classified as being blasphemous & utterly shameful. Therefore, far better to continue with indigenous R & d with greater vigour so that by 2016 at least the prototypes are available for evaluations. OFB has since 2009 achieved lots of breakthroughs in terms of refining existing 7.62mm & 5.56mm SLR designs & coming up with new designs, most of which have already been supplied to certain CAPF units on a pilot basis & the results thus far have been very encouraging. I therefore am optimistic about the OFB & ARDE delivering the projected multi-calibre assault weapon as per the Army’s GSQR.
As for the INS Sindhukirti, I had already explained it all under the heading ‘Blowing The Lid Off The INS Sindhukirti Saga’ at:
http://trishul-trident.blogspot.in/2014/09/new-force-accretions-are-welcome-but.html
Also, read this:
http://www.popsci.com/china-builds-worlds-fastest-tank-gun-then-tries-hide-it
To Anon@12.33PM: Because the human race is not allowed by ‘other intelligent species’ in our galaxy to deploy any weaponised orbital vehicles. As simple as that.
To SWEET: There is no such formal agreement as yet, but the US, India & Japan have now teamed up to draft such an agreement, primarily to discourage China from continuing its disruptive series of ASAT tests, which have resulted in a considerable increase in the volume of space debris floating in areas where polar synchronous orbital satellites could well be imperiled.
To KAKU SH, PAWAN & RAJESH MISHRA: This is interesting:
Lenders from the Middle East have stopped a planned loan of $433 million to fund the strategically important 969mW Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project following the surge in cost estimate to $4.21 billion. During the previous PPP government, the project cost had jumped to $2.74 billion from $1.8 billion and during the rule of the present PML-N government, the cost estimate has gone up to $4.21 billion. Pakistan had kicked off work on the Neelum-Jhelum River in AJK to secure water supplies but India also developed the Kishanganga hydroelectric power project on the river, which led to a legal battle between the two countries in the International Court of Arbitration. The disclosure about the loan being denied by the Middle East lenders was made to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Energy on June 18. Earlier, the project had to be finished by October 2015, but the deadline has now been revised to November 30, 2016. According to officials familiar with the development, the soaring cost of the project is a major concern for the Gulf lenders including the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Kuwait Fund for Development, Saudi Fund for Development and OPEC Development Fund. They had committed an amount of $692 million, of which $259.5 million had so far been disbursed. The release of the remaining $433 million has been stopped by the lenders as they are demanding performance guarantees from the contractors for the additional work (variation orders) and cost escalation. Clause 10 of the contract calls for providing 10% performance security and clause 60.02 envisages no payment unless the 10% security is paid. The financiers were of the view that clause 10 also applied to the variation orders and cost escalation and the contractors should provide additional performance security. The project management, however, believes that the performance security should be paid in line with the cost indicated in the letter of acceptance. The lenders had also termed the demand of additional security as “extra-contractual”. The project management was asked about the cushion it had to cover any default by the contractors and was told that clause 60.2 and standard contractual practices covered this risk of default in terms of 10% performance security against the total project cost. In the case of default, the liquidity damage clause is invoked which primarily banks on the performance security. The project management expressed its apprehension that the additional performance security might put the project at risk and discourage the contractors.
To TECHNOLOGY, PHOTOGRAPHY & TRAVEL: China buys more than half the semiconductors sold each year, and its share is growing. Yet the nation doesn’t have one domestic manufacturer among the 10 biggest chipmakers, a list stacked with US companies. Homegrown chips account for less than one-tenth of local demand, and in 2013 China spent more money importing chips than it did importing oil. As President Xi Jinping’s government trades allegations of cyber espionage with US officials, China is stepping up its support of domestic chip production to lessen its dependence on foreign technology. The government is telling local companies that it plans to invest as much as 1 trillion yuan ($161 billion) over the next 10 years to develop chips, about as much as Intel spends per decade on facilities and R & D. With so much money going to local producers, foreign chipmakers can either help China’s industry improve or try to get along without the market. Dutch chipmaker NXP, which got 49% of its sales from the country last year, feels that joint ventures are the way forward. South Korea and Taiwan used a similar strategy in the 1980s to accelerate the rise of Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. Neither of those companies, however, gets more than 12% of sales from its home market. No company in the business can afford to walk away from China. Even the most advanced companies in the $300 billion chip business are spending more cash and sharing more technology so they can keep hawking their wares in China. Qualcomm, the world’s biggest maker of mobile processors and modems, paid a $975 million fine in February 2015 to settle a Chinese anti-trust investigation; it also reduced the fees it charges Chinese cellphone makers to use its chips. Qualcomm has announced a $150 million China investment fund, promised to set up a joint venture to design server chips in the mountainous southwestern province of Guizhou, and teamed with Chinese companies. It has agreed to outsource some production to Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International. Not to be outdone, Intel, which gets one-fifth of its $56 billion annual revenue from China, has committed more than $3 billion since September 2014 to upgrade its Chinese plants and to invest in state-run mobile chipmakers. It has managed to avoid roadblocks from Chinese regulators, as has NXP, which through a joint venture with Datang Telecom Technology has become China’s biggest supplier of chips used in cars and trucks. The foreign chipmakers’ advantage is experience in building and operating the factories that drive the business. A state-of-the-art plant costs more than $5 billion to build and equip and can become obsolete in as little as five years. Until Chinese companies can match the technology and designs of foreign partners, they’ll need help. The bottom line: Foreign chipmakers are working to avoid getting shut out of China as it boosts its homegrown industry.
Prasun,
30th June deadline of Boeing is already over but no news has come up regarding signing of Apache and Chinook helicopters. Similarly, there is no news about S-70 helicopters for Navy.
Is there any problem? What is going on?
hi prasun
These stupid american chip maker fools dont seem to realize that china is forcing them to part with tech, and then some day undercut them like all other products. They have sold their soul to china and will pay for it , just like indian companies importing heavy machinery and telecom equipment .Ultimately they will have us b y our balls!.
I believe the greatest flaw in capitalistic economy is greed and it has been exploited b y china to the full!.
Peope are saying then the Tejas-II will be ready by 2022-24. Is this rellistic? Pkis will have FC-1 mk III by 2018 with ASEA and IRST and IFR. By 2022 they will have mk Iv ready with god knows what. Why bother with Tejas Mk II, just go for the AMRC, what do you think?
@Anonymous@2:16
A simple question, lets say move to AMCA, then who do the simple operations like Air Patrols? SU-30 MKI or FGFA?
Even USAF use F-16 for air patrols, not F-22 or F-15. Do you think IAF is so much superior force and have so much money (even more superior than USAF) to use main stream fighters for Air Patrols?
And if it is, then I am with you. Lets scrap the LCA and AMCA too (as FGFA is coming), and procure atleast 400 FGFA for also performing the operations like Air patrols, as we need air dominance fighters even for intercepting hijacked planes maybe. LoLz.
Sir,Looks like the NH 90 will enter production.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Airbus-Mahindra-JV-to-make-helicopters-in-India/articleshow/47926611.cms
To Prasun:-
In your 2011 thread related to akash missile u said that akash is going to replace 2k12 kub but don't u think is s BIG STUPID decision 2k12 kub is known as "THREE FINGER OF DEATH".
It became famous for giving nightmares to Israelis in The Yom Kippur war and emerged as one of the most successful SAM systems ever designed by russia at that time plus it has SARH so it has better resolution that SACLOS beam riding Akash who has its own fair share of failures even as latest 2014.
So why India is putting the cart before the horse by replacing 2k12 kub with Akash are we not capable enough to ask russians to provide an upgradation to kub system or new missiles something like that?
Comm. CD Balaji is new chief of ADA. Hope atleast NP2 gets inducted before the airforce could induct Tejas MK2.
Hi Prasun, can Tejas MK2 Carry Brahmos?
1) Sir where's the second Akula?..
2)Is lack of employment pushing the Patharbaaz youth into militancy again?
Hi Prasun Da,
I researched bur didn't got any idea about ' Vajpayee's formula of settling J&K prblm '. Could you please enlighten us for same ?
VMT,
S. Thakur.
or is it that only RSH H125M(or customized ) version will be built ? This is real mystery?
Isn't this a really good news?
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/saudi-arabia-pakistans-controversial-zaid-hamid-faces-1000-lashes-8-years-jail-criticising-1508767
How will he face the TV again? Will he criticize House of Sauds again?
RaviN
Prasun da,
Should India go for Su35 instead of Su30MKI - for the remaining aircraft out of 350.
Thanks a lot for your comments Prasun da, I failed to do some research on china's Chip manufacturing, you have given decent insight
As you are assuring that Tejas-Mk2 is going to be operational by 2025, so I accept it. Otherwise I have lost all faith in this fighter. For too long I was very happy with this Tejas project like many other Indians but it crashed all our hopes. So now at least I say good luck again to this project, which never incorporated any foresightedness. I also do not feel good to see that Tejas-Mk1 has not been considered for a versatile LIFT.
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