With no previous experience, how did India make the best 4.5

By cutting corners, of course.

More serious answer: the F16's original design is like 40 years old.

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Is this the new shitpost template?

>>31069240
Si monsieur comrade

>>31069218

>take already established and developed technologies, the single largest cost in an airframe, and shove into a plane
>HOW DID YOU MAKE A CHEAP PLANE?

Because the rest of the world, including the chinks, have had domestic 4.5 gens for nearly 30 years.

>>31069218
original troll content

8/10

We are just now starting to put AESAs in F-16.

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>>31071276

Just NOW?!!!!!

HAHHAHAHAAHA!!!!!!!

Soon the AMCA will make the F22 and F35 shame and cry out of fear and frustration!!

>>31069218
>Size: compact - bloated
That's not even a real measurement

>>31069218
>stat posting
hehehe

>>31071310
F-16s have been around for 40 years, and there's really no reason to put AESAs in all of them when they're going to get replaced by F-35s anyways.

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>>31069218
>India with the 2nd largest population on earth, manages to produce a cheap shitty light combat aircraft.

>Sweden, with a population smaller than New York manages to create some of the of the most capable and cost effective combat aircraft, and has done that since the late 40s.

Really makes you think

>>31069218
Are you comparing a 23mm revolver cannon with a 20mm gattling?

>>31071310

Please. India tried to make a 4th gen aircraft in the Tejas and made something 3.5th at best.

Watching them trying to make a 5th gen will be hysterical.

>>31071449
This.

They will make the chink 5th gens look like supermachines.

>>31071410
>cost effective
wew, lad

>>31069240

This is designated shitposting thread.

>>31071586
>What is operating costs

Name one 4th gen aircraft that can be served by a total of 5 conscripts.
>Hard mode
No slavshit

>>31071706
>buying overpriced F-16s
>cost effective

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>>31071706

Slavshit tends to be hard and expensive to maintain if it's not a small arm.

>>31071766
>Costs less than half the price of a F-16 in operational costs
>Is somehow more expensive

Its like you have never owned a car.

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>>31071766

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>>31069218
Is this the new lawn dart?

>>31069218
The same way FN made the world's best battle rifle; they did it years after they were relevant.

>>31071416
> 23mm revolver cannon
The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 of Tejas MkIA is Gast Gun not revlover.

GSh-23 and M61 have similar launched weight per second around 10kg but M61 has better muzzle velocity.

>>31071818
>Janes
top kek

>>31073634

>Trying to attack the source despite it being literally one of the most reliable and well respected defense reporters in the world and one of the few that much of /k/ tends to trust and uses regularly for F-35 facts to knock down the moronic idiots who think it's shit

You don't really knock much, do you?

>>31073444
rekt

>>31073730
It's going to be that vatnik who freaks out if people use Janes, because apparently they printed something from Sukhoi that didn't paint the Su-50 as some almighty superplane.

>>31071818
Didn't the South Africans find it to be more expensive than that quoted number