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http://www.business-standard.com/india/n...er/381718/

India, Russia close to PACT on next generation fighter

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It has a Radar Cross Section (RCS) of just 0.5 square metre

I hope this RCS is without external weapons load.. and RCS of Raptor is never revealed yet, and is much lower than 0.5 sq mtr. and I am not sure at what distance these measures were applied by the author.



Quite a lot of money India is investing, and there must be enough gain in these., in terms of the core requirements like high performance engines & production engineering setup.



If pakfa can bring these core engine saturn technologies to India, its a shot in the arm for restructuring GTRE.



I am sure some of this pakfa money can be diverted to augment Kaveri++ to be on par with the best other engines for FGFA and further on to MCA.



Stealth and Radar technologies anyways we have better options as our R&D and collaborations with Israel and other firms can substantiate quite a bit.



Though the news has lot of info, but nothing is clear yet.