How indian tejas mk 1 would be a better aircraft then the pakistani JF17 THUNDER

INDIAN   TEJAS  mk1  V/S    PAKISTANI   JF17                                        THUNDER block 1

 The HAL Tejas is an Indian single-engine delta wing  multirole light fighter designed by the Aeronotical development agency (ADA) in collaboration with Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC) of Hindustan aeronotics limited (HAL) for the indian air force

The PAC JF-17 Thunder or CAC FC-1 is a lightweight, single-engine,4th generation multi role fighter developed jointly by the pakistan aeronotical complex (PAC) and the Chendgu aircraft corportion (CAC) of China

SPECIFICATIONS 

1      speed

2      RANGE

These are the comparisons of ferry ranges with droptanks 

Jf17 can carry 3 droptanks of equal volume due to which its range is higher than that of the TEJAS

Although the JF 17 have higher ranges as compared to TEJAS MK1 but the main problem with JF 17 block 1 is that it is not able to do air to air refuling due to which its range gets limited and on the other hand the TEJAS MK 1 have non retractable refuling probe due to which the range of tejas can be increased to almost double of the original range

3      payload carrying capacity

4      MAX   FLIGHT   ALTITUDE

5              hard points  ( points on which weapons are installed 

Delta wing shape of tejas offers it a higher number of hard points

                                WEAPONS

1      JF-17 THUNDER 

                                 Air to air

                      Air to ground      

Anti ship      

Bombs 

2 TEJAS    WEAPONS 

AIR TO AIR

Air to ground

Anti radiation missile

Anti ship missiles

Bombs

Here we can clearly see that Tejas has more options for weapons as compared to its counterpart JF17 THUNDER 

Both of these aircrafts are made to perforce both air superiority role and ground attack roles 

In the case of JF 17 Thunder pakistan have the backing of china and all the parts of JF 17 are manufactured in China and are exported to pakistan where it is assembled at PAKISTAN AERONOTICAL COMPLEX KAMRA due to which the productivity of the chinese aircraft is high as China have a huge manufacturing industry as compared to both pakistan and India combined

Because of which pakistani air force was able of induct around 132 aircraft in their inventory 

The main problem with TEJAS is that it's manufacturing speed is too low and due to which only 23 TEJAS have been delivered to the indian air force of the total order of 40 TEJAS mk 1 and a additional of 83 TEJAS MK1 A are also on the order with the HINDUSTAN AERONOTICS LIMITED 

                               

                                 ENGINES

Tejas uses a GE F404 engine which offers it a maximum thrust of 53.9 kilo Newton (dry) and a thrust of 90 kn of thrust with afterburner 

where as on the other hand the chinese JF 17 uses a klomov RD 33 engine which offers a thrust of 44.9 KN  and a with afterburner it offers a thrust of 84.8 KN

 

We should remember that although their might not be any great difference between the thrust of engine's of both the aircraft but the maintainence of a average American engine is far more easier than the the average soviet engine since the RD 33 IS A SOVIET era engine its maintainence costs are very high And is also difficult to maintain 

And also the life of a American or a western engine is around 8000 to 9000 hours where as the life of a average soviet engine Is around 2000 to 4000 hours which means after their life cycle they are crap and also the western engine's are much more fuel efficient then the soviet engine's which means the GE F 404 engine used in tejas is far more superiour then the SOVIET RD33 engine 

                 

HOW     DOES    TEJAS    CAN    HAVE   A  HIGHER    RATE    OF    SERVIVABILITY   and HAVE A LESS RISK TO BE SHOT DOWN  BY  THE    PAKISTANI   JF 17

1.                STEALTH    CAPABILITY 

Stealth  is a capability which is used to minimize the radar cross section of a aircraft lesser the radar cross section less the chance of a aircraft to be caught by a radar and a aircraft with this property can be more effective in the conditions of war as it can penetrate in the enemy's heavily defended territories 

Though tejas is not a complete stealth aircraft but it has some physical features which enable it to posses some of the stealth capabilities 

        A)    SMALL SIZE 

               tejas is much smaller than we think                  of a regular Aircraft it is actually the                   worlds smallest fighter aircraft 

                    

                   Smaller size of tejas provides it                         with a less surfaces which can be                     vulnerable to radar  And hence it                         ‘looks’ small in radar automatically

   

     B)    MATERIAL USED IN Tejas’ airframe - 

               THE airframe of tejas is made up of                   advanced composite material 90%                      of surface area which is a bad                            reflector of radar wave so reduces                     the radar cross-section. The JF 17                     LACKS such properties  as it is                         almost completely a aluminum body                  due to which its radar cross section                 is very high

 

C)       Tejas has wing-shielded Y-duct inlet.                  The engine fan blades are a prominent             contributor in RCS, therefore Y intake                buries the jet engine inside the fuselage             so no engine parts are visible and thus            increases the stealth characteristics.

          Where as in the JF 17 although the chinese have tried but the engine is so much bigger in dimensions than the INDIAN engine they can barely hide it with a little y shape 

D)        Tejas has Indium Tin Oxide coating on             canopy. Radar waves normally enters                 the cockpit, gets reflected from                         objects & possibly returns to the                        radar.  Even the HMD (Helmet-                             Mounted  Display) of pilot itself                        contributes to RCS. To prevent this the             canopy of Tejas is coated with a thin                   film transparent conductor of Indium                Tin Oxide. The coating is thin enough                that it has no adverse effect on pilot                  vision and can reflect the radar waves               away from the radar antenna.

E)      Tejas has a smooth upper wing body                  blending i.e. having no clear dividing                  line between the wings and the main                body of the plane This helps to avoid                early detection as the corner reflections            from AWACS aircrafts searching from              above resulting in lower RCS.

2).           The radar cross sections

Proof of 10 m² rcs of jf 17

Which means the JF 17 have a higher probability of being shot earlier as the radar which is installed on the tejas mk 1 can detect the JF 17 much before then the JF 17 can detect tejas which also means that Tejas can come even much close to the jf 17 and can lauch its AIR TO AIR missile without being getting detected by the JF 17

The radar which the TEJAS uses is the ELTA ELM 2032 RADAR which have the capabilities of to detect 150 km ranges for 5m² RCS  since the radar cross section of JF 17 is 10 m²so there can be probability that Tejas may catch JF 17 much before jf 17. SO  for the ELTA ELM 2032 , JF17  is just like a loud speaker in the air 

where as the JF 17 uses the KLJ 7 pulse dappled radar In look down mode 100km for 5m² In look up mode 150km for 5m² RCS In look down mode 110km for 3m² RCS 200km for KLJ-7A.

But the radar cross section of tejas is 0.5 m² so the JF 17 can not see the tejas at a distance higher than so if we apply simple mathematical unitary method then we would find that the KLJ 7 will pick up the tejas at minimum to minimum 10 km away from the JF 17 but If we give some liberty to the pakistanis then the JF 17 may pick up the tejas at 60 to 70 km due to the external payload but that can not be compared to the 150 km range of a proven Israeli radar

                Electronic warfare capability 

Both the Indian the chinese aircraft have almost same features in electronic warfare but Tejas uses mainly Indian and Israili electronic warfare equipment which are the most battle proven as the israili electronic warfare suits are the number 1 in the world  this can be prooven by the example that most of the US airforce aircrafts uses israili electronic warfare suits and also one of the reasons that the israili EWS Are the best is that they consume minimum electric power 

whereas the jf 17 relies on the Chinese electronic war fare equipment which is never battle prooven and are not effective 

For example   -  every month we come to here about the American retaliative air incursions In the chinese air space in the south china sea and even once the american U2 SPY plane reached 14 km closer to the chinese main land so I'd the chinese can not stop a 66 years old aircraft with the best electronic warfare technology which the chinese have then how come the jf 17 can have better technology as compared to the battle proven israili electronic warfare suits 

                           CONCLUSION

both the aircrafts are capable and can give challange to each other in their respective domains but when it comes to air to air dog fight then tejas will always have a upper hand on the JF 17 because of its low RCS and some of its stealth capabilities