Locally designed fighter

Typhoon SG · 2002-11-18T17:13:25+00:00

Yah, I know. This is just wishful thinking

cavsg SG

LALEE was meant to be a solution to provide coverage for the navy. It stands for Low Altitude Long Enduring Eudurance. Long Enduring means long life span. I think the navy was complaining that in event of war the e-2c is too tax to provide air defense coverage for the island and for the navy when they are in south china sea. a fleet of LALEE can be rotated to provide coverage for the fleet while at sea. There is no crew fatigue to take care off. the lalee can carry 2000kg payload, since there is no operators equipment to carry. The payload can be used just to carry the radar. most probably the radar coverage is like the seaking aew type

Mech^O^GATor SG

These can be only assumption,the actual design and specifications havent been release by the Mindef.We only know the existance this Lalee program,this program somehow gain interest from some big boys. Very Happy

Mech^O^GATor SG

The indian dont get assistance from the US.For Defense technology the russian are normally the one the approach.
Singapore technologies aerospace dont focus some much on the UAV rather its Singapore technologies dynamic. Nothing is impossible when there's a will there always a way.

Joe Black SG

No, not true...
Knowledge and experience are accumulated over long and painful years. The Americans, Russians, British and French did not just learnt to design advanced jet in a short period of time. They have been doing that since the first jet was built after the WWII.

Yes, ST Aero has learnt fast, fast track their knowledge and experience but they are not even near where the Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, Israeli, Indians and the Chinese are today. These countries set out to build some of the most advanced aerospace industry. ST Aero is at least 1/2 a decade behind these countries in terms of the technical capabilities (a credit to ST Aero itself already given it got nothing much to start with and have achieved so much in so little time). To counter your statement, Rome was not built in a day and ST Aero or Singaporean aspiration of building a locally designed fighter is a case of the heart is willingly but the body is NOT.

Is ST Aero insists on building a locally designed fighter, it would at best be a design copy of a third generation fighter (albeit it could have the best avionics), but lack critical advanced aerodynamics design and capable FBW controls. That is for sure.

buzz SG

No need to build figther planes per se - UCAVs is a cheaper alternative and probably easier to realise.

Of course the problem then becomes one of bringing the cockpit to the pilot on the ground.....

Depending on the technology on board, compared to a manned aircraft probably not a replacement but supplement. So in an attacking formation for air to ground ops only one aircraft needs to be manned.

With networking, the pilot on the ground will have equal SA than his compatriot flying next to 'him'.

For air combat ops, more and more BVR etc. So maybe the manned aircraft will be flying CAPs until the enemy close up.

Just some ideas.

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