of the hindus.

--During the 60s and 70s, they asked a kraut engineer Kurt Tank to design a plane similar to china's Q5; according to Wiki:"The Marut was "essentially a very long-drawn-out failure","

--The LCA was 'conceived' in the late 1970s I read; supposed to be of the same class as yankie F16

--LCA project officially started in 1983; obviously back then they didn't know where to start and lacked basic aereospace infrastructure to start

--Hired french Dassault as consultant in 1987; i suspect it means the hindus gave some requirement parameters and the french did the design. I read a few years ago, they had problem strengthening the LCA landing gears and enlarge the air intake.

--I read the LCA hasn't been test flown the entire design envelope and hasn't been passed the gun test yet

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Chinese stages of development: Built better J7 (mig21)-->built twin engine J7 or J8 ---> JH-7 --->J10---->J20