India's Tejas fighter jet has been severely damaged! Originally, the Tejas fighter jet was India's next-generation carrier-based aircraft, but due to unsatisfactory performance, India was forced to re-purchase 36 Rafale carrier-based aircraft to replace the aging MiG-29K carrier-based aircraft. The Tejas fighter jet is destined not to become India's naval carrier-based aircraft, but the Indian Air Force's dissatisfaction with the Tejas fighter jet has already decided its future! The Indian Tejas fighter jet will use Israeli radar and electronic warfare systems on subsequent dozens of aircraft, because the radar and electronic warfare systems that India itself developed are simply too poor.
This means that the MK1A model of the Tejas fighter jet, which plays a bridging role, has not delivered a single aircraft to date, and the sci-fi MK2 model of the Tejas fighter jet is even more of an illusion. So the Indian Air Force can't wait any longer and it's better to directly adopt Israeli radar and electronic warfare systems!
India is really bad. The Uttam AESA radar is just a CKD mode of component assembly, with key components all imported, polished in India, and then assembled together, but they still don't work. If they can't even do this, how can India revitalize its manufacturing industry? India should first fix its toilets, other things are useless!
In the India-Pakistan war, the Tejas fighter jet was not shot down, because the Tejas fighter jet's strength was poor, and its radar and electronic warfare system had not been updated, so it could not participate in the war. As a result, the Tejas fighter jet accidentally gained an advantage, not being shot down by the Pakistani Air Force, which made many Indian netizens believe that the Tejas fighter jet is still extremely powerful. In fact, the Tejas fighter jet doesn't even have the qualification to participate in the war, how can it be strong?
The Tejas fighter jet has completely abandoned its own developed radar and electronic warfare systems, and fully adopted Israeli radar and electronic warfare systems. This shows that India's own R&D capabilities are too poor, so poor that even the Indian Air Force can't accept it. Everyone knows that testing the strength of a fighter jet is actually about the radar and electronic warfare systems, as well as beyond-visual-range combat capability. Now, the Indian Tejas fighter jet has no beyond-visual-range combat capability, but its radar and electronic warfare systems are still extremely backward.
Trying to develop independently also fails, and finally, the Indian Air Force couldn't bear it anymore, and started to continue using advanced equipment from Israel, which is also a reward for India's long-term support for Israel. Israel can appropriately transfer some radar and electronic warfare systems to India, although not top-tier equipment, but still much better than what India developed.
Therefore, India has friends like Israel, they should be very grateful, otherwise they would be a tiger without teeth, just a paper tiger. Because India is doing everything badly now, especially in military affairs, its R&D capability is too poor. The Tejas fighter jet has been around for almost 50 years, and it can't even complete an AESA radar and electronic warfare system. I don't know what face the Indian R&D personnel have.
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