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ＬＣＡ光辉战斗机项目将绵延逾35载耗资逾1300亿卢比（26亿美元）”
Tejas LCA project to cost more than Rs 13,000 crore over 35 years
TNN, Apr 16, 2010, 01.49am IST

新德里：LCA光辉战斗机的全部研发成本已经悄然攀越了1300亿卢比（约26亿美元

）大关，因为政府已经同意将该战斗机的“全面工程研发”展期至2018年12月31

日。

NEW DELHI: The overall developmental cost of Tejas Light Combat

Aircraft has quietly zoomed past the Rs 13,000-crore mark, with the

government sanctioning the extension of the fighter's "full-scale

engineering development'' (FSED) till December 31, 2018.

这实际上意味着从1983年立项算起光辉战斗机的传说将绵延35载。而该项目立项

批准时的预算仅仅为56亿卢比，目标为替代老化的MG21战斗机.
This, in effect, means the Tejas developmental saga will now stretch

across 35 years, sanctioned as the project was way back in 1983 at a

cost of Rs 560 crore to replace the ageing MiG-21s.

在项目研发的靡耗国帑耗费时日方面，ＬＣＡ事实上与阿穷主战坦克不相上下难

分雌雄，互为伯仲堪称双璧。阿穷坦克项目早在36年前就立项了。
Tejas, in fact, can now give the Arjun main-battle tank a run for its

money
in terms of years taken for full development. The tank project, after

all, was first approved 36 years ago.
当然，虽然lca70%的软硬件依然依赖进口，但它对于国防生产的国产化依然至关

重要。然而情况可能本不该是这样子的。
It is, of course, critical for India to boost indigenous defence

production, importing as it still does 70% of its military hardware and

software, but this probably is not the way.

“在LCA项目批准27年之后，情况非常之糟糕，依然看不到黎明的亮光。”国会防

务常务委员会最近的一份报告如是说道。该报告于周四提交议会。
"This is a very sorry state of affairs. Even after 27 years since LCA

was sanctioned, it is yet to see light of the day,'' says the latest

report of the parliamentary standing committee on defence, tabled in

Parliament on Thursday.


印度斯坦航空公司、航空发展署与DRDO(印度国防研发组织，印度最大的国防工业

研发机构）辩解道在多年国际封锁下从零开始研发一种超音速电传操控的四代战

斗机的复杂与艰巨超乎人们想象。
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Aeronautical Development Agency and DRDO

argue developing a supersonic fly-by-wire fourth-generation fighter

from scratch, with international sanctions in place for several years,

is an incredibly complex and tough task.

毕竟，该项目包括空军单座，教练机双座与海军三个变型。光辉原型机已经飞行

了1350次，空军版本将于2012年底“完全可用”。
The project, after all, includes single-seater IAF, twin-seater trainer

and naval LCA variants. With Tejas prototypes clocking 1,350 flights

till now, the "final operational clearance'' for the IAF variant is now

slated for December 2012.


某个官员说道：“印度空军本该于2014-15年拥有第一个有20架飞机组成的ＬＣＡ

中队。而瑞典的鹰狮战斗机的研发成本也仅仅为１２６４亿卢比”
"So, IAF should have its first Tejas squadron of 20 fighters by 2014-

15. Even Swedish Gripen fighter's developmental cost was around Rs

12,640 crore,'' said an official.

然而，由于印度国产的Kavery发动机在耗资283.9亿卢比（约5.7亿美元）后依然

不符合要求，印度现在正在寻找外国发动机作为ＬＣＡ２的动力。
India, however, is now going in for foreign engines to power even the

Tejas Mark-II version after the indigenous Kaveri engine failed to pass

muster after 20 years of development at a cost of Rs 2,839 crore.

因此，在第一个光辉战斗机中队的２０架LCA拟采用美国ＧＥ４０４发动机之时，

印度正为接下来的6个光辉战斗机中队（每个１６-１８架LCA）寻找更加强劲的发

动机。
Consequently, while the first 20 Tejas will be powered by the American

GE-404 engines, the hunt is on for new more powerful engines for the

next six Tejas Mark-II squadrons (16-18 jets in each).

The Rs 13,000-crore mark for the LCA project is breached even if the

Kaveri fiasco is kept aside. For one, the FSED Phase-I, which finished

in March 2004, cost Rs 2,188 crore.

The Phase-II, which was to be completed by December 2008 at a cost of

Rs 3,301 crore, will now get over in December 2012, with additional

funds of Rs 2,475 crore.

Moreover, in November last year, the government "accorded'' sanction

for "continuing FSED of LCA till December 2018, with an estimated

additional cost of Rs 5,302 crore''.

Amid all this, IAF is keeping its fingers crossed, grappling as it is

with a free-fall in the number of its fighter squadrons, down to just

32 from a sanctioned strength of 39.5.
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