This is old news, announced earlier in year....I guess twitter account repeating it.
It is the latter (entry into IAF squadron). Prototype and tech demonstrators (and their first flights etc) will be much before.
Hope this program is accelerated somehow or India makes a 5th gen interim...
We will also have to wait for more details to come out first (say A2A vs SAM hits or other reasons etc from the corralling, friendlies in front of you, sensoring and turnaround timings etc.... and other things I mentioned previously when you are constrained with A2G payloads at same time and...
This is what then starts to bring the next layer of discussion with economics and geopolitical strategy/interest.
As to the costs of beefing up IAD for Pakistan conventionally (especially more optimal return in policy change to India on Kashmir "non conventionals")....compared to relative costs...
Let me know how it all goes downstream after fixes done etc.
There are some login glitches in some of the code forum software has in general when there are bot filter updates going on at same time lately.
But in the more intimate case im party to (where I actually go in as temp-admin to...
As I chatted with cpl folks elsewhere, IN is also looking at drone + EW packages for navy too (for opponent SAM depletion/spoof etc to make brahmos and CM's in general more potent in their waves - as is proven this time in the scale done this time)...
This is what I sketched last year @Rajendra Chola et al. for reference with what I mentioned just now.
Basically the staging area (before any serious penetration or provocation etc) is bounded roughly by the C-602 coastal CM range that Pakistan has.
@Afif compare and contrast it (this is ofc Pak presser claims, but lets assume its the real situation).... with my war sim on CBG (which was more detailed, but same kind of staging first to penetrate coastal sam etc later)
@Gessler et al, this is the blog post by Cooper I believe:
https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/illusions-and-realities-of-cross-b6c
He did an interview on NDTV as well:
No not clear victory for IAF. Cooper meant the bigger picture stuff (airforces, air defences, missiles and then whatever ground force etc were involved too....there was no real naval engagement this time)....in that India had a clear cut victory in what is demonstrated (basically hard infra...
Tom Cooper says ~ 4 Indian aircraft probably brought down, but the end result is clear cut Indian victory given the damage on Pakistani military infra by ladder escalation to there (for first time by India)....along with the initial A2G payloads on terrorist targets (again for first time at this...
https://ddnews.gov.in/en/india-launches-first-3nm-chip-design-centres-in-noida-and-bengaluru/
Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday inaugurated India’s first 3-nanometre (3nm) chip design centres in Noida and Bengaluru...