Tejas vs Sukhoi:
Why India’s LCA Tejas Is ‘Definitely Better’ Than Russian Su-30 MKI Jets? Expert Analysis
The Indian aircraft has many advantages over its Russian counterpart, which includes its light-weight and the capacity to carry up to a 9-ton payload. Moreover, the aircraft can fly at a speed of 1.6 to 1.8 Mach at an altitude of 52,000 feet.
Also, the addition of new technologies used in the Tejas – Active Electronic Scanned Radar, BVR missiles, electronic warfare suits, and air-to-air refueling – enhance its capabilities during critical operations.
The Mk 1A can hit enemy aircraft from a much longer distance and has the ability to deceive the enemy radar. It can fly as many weapons and missiles as the Sukhoi aircraft with a heavier weight.
Tejas can carry up to a 9 ton payload , Su30MKI can carry 8 ton not to mention Tejas is much much smaller than Su30MKI this little fighter jet is indeed the best 4th gen fighter jet in the world
Lmao... but anyways.
Let's take a look at this particular section from the EurAsian Times article that you quoted. That purple bracket is where you obtained (more like copy-then-paste) the proof for your claim of "Tejas has 9-ton payload", which is underlined in red inside the purple box:
But did you even bother to read anywhere else in the article? Here, take a look at the paragraph just underneath the bolded title, bracketed in the green box in the very same page:
Did you notice that red underline in the green box? There it says the Tejas has a payload of 3,500 kg, which is 3.5 tons.
3,500 kg (3.5 tons) is
MASSIVELY DIFFERENT from 9 tons, you know.
Did the EurAsian Times author of this article not even bother with proof-reading his/her work before publishing this article? How can there be such a drastic clash in data for the exact same thing that he/she is reporting on?
On the other hand, you didn't even figure out (or choose to ignore) such discrepency before taking it as your justification to show that somehow Tejas can carry 9 tons of payload.
Furthermore, as an addendum to
@FairAndUnbiased's reply:
Tejas Mk1 has an empty weight of 6500 kg (6.5 tons), and Tejas Mk1A has an empty weight of 5500 kg (5.5 tons), as per your previous post:
It's for MK1 block which weighs 6500 kg , MK1A weighs 5500 kg , weight is reduced by 1000kg in MK1A
I accept that I did a mistake but Wikipedia doesn't have the accurate data either As per HAL brochure in Aero India 2019, Tejas ferry range is quoted at 2000km+.
The
maxium takeoff weight of Tejas Mk1 as per
listed by HAL (
) is
13.5 tons.
13.5 tons maximum takeoff weight - 6.5 tons of empty weight = 7 tons for everything else. So
where in the world did you get that extra 2 tons of weight in order to become 9 tons of payload for Tejas Mk1? Disassemble the landing gears? Disassemble the vertical stabilizer? Or disassemble the cockpit and pilot canopy?
Besides, the
empty weight of Tejas Mk 1
does not include the pilots and jet fuel. So how are you going to fly the Tejas into the air without pilot and without jet fuel? Magic?
Furthermore, even for
Tejas Mk1A with a lighter
maximum takeoff weight of
5500 kg (5.5 tons), publically available information indicates that the maximum takeoff weight of Tejas Mk1A is still around 13.5 tons.
13.5 tons maximum takeoff weight -
5.5 tons of empty weight =
8 tons for everything else. Once again, where did you get that extra 1 ton of weight? And where do the weights allocated to the pilots and jet fuel go?
Seriously, please, lol. And frankly speaking, I have not seen any publication elsewhere claiming that Tejas Mk1 and Mk1A have 9 tons of payload, so there's that.
