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They were fine... Built rugged. We had issues due to spare supply being hit by Soviet Union disintegration. We bought cheaper spares from Ukraine etc .

Mig 29 were top of the line interceptor and light air superiority fighter jet. It's just that we don't have enough of them. They proved themselves throughout 90s specially in Kargil war. Nope ... Never made it. No AESA and engine upgrade was part of the deal. Article referring to...

I have discussed this before and shared articles in chronology how it happened. Jaguar was Anglo French. Britishers were pushing it. French offered Mirage 2k a Multirole which can perform both Attack and interception and was soon going to enter production. Total 300 jets were needed . We...

Kyaa bol raha hain ? We took the upgrade deal for Mirage and paid a bomb for bits.

Well then not opting Mirage in 2000s was a good choice. Tejas is replacing Sqd in front line bases with one active Sqd there and another provide training at Sulur. Third is being raised this year. Overall going good now.

That was in 80s and it was Britishers with their Jags. It was a big mistake. We should have chosen Mirage production line. Mig 29 were offered later and were actually a good option. But we didn't even opted that. In 2004 around the UPA government was just afraid to go for direct purchase...

That's why people mock you here... Not just because you are a born pork you have to be stupid inbred.

UAE Mirages won't need major upgrade as UAE has awarded the contract to upgrade them. Otherwise France has also sold us their old Mirage our of which 13 are in flying condition but we are possibly using only two airframes for now to upgrade. If UAE decided to sell it off through Dassault we...

The UAE got upgraded Mirage that we can lookout for.. We are already upgrading our Mirage fleet and we have our own aesa in advanced stage which can be modified for Mirage too if need arise. Let's not forget Mirage is still a formidable fighter jet and we are flying Mig 21s and jaguars right...

No you are right they do have the best one available after M2000I 2-3 Rafale Sqd are done deal which leaves very little for IAF to spent though. And they do want some non American jets in their airforce. Not happening Indian Gov may not allow it. May be they do but in 2018 discussion did...

N We did paid for Jaguar assembly line due to politics instead of Mirages. And SU did offered a better deal with Mig 29 to us. They were our best Air superiority fighter jet until Sukhoi arrived.

MICA is overhyped one of the reason IAF is going for ASRAAM and meteor combo ..meteor will cost 2.4 million a piece i think or may be less. Total ripoff

A clear corrupt deal in terms of cost 45+ million dollar for the fucking upgrade with no AESA no meteor integration no engine upgrade add to that the issue with flight computer of Dassault which caused two crash resulting in death of pilots. Nevermind we will be continued to be ripped off...

The deal was made around 2011 same time line when they offered AESA equipped Rafale to us. That radar could be adjusted for mirage 2k They started sending kits to HAL in 2018. And If they didn't offered AESA atleast cost of the upgrade should have been much lesser. They aren't letting us...

You look at that dude.. in 2020s we will be getting an upgrade with no AESA no meteor integrated We had Mig 29 UPG deal with new engines at <15 million a piece . USA is offering upgrade packages for Korean F 16 and Japanese F 15 at much better VFM .

Indigenous one infact no harm if we take some more time and go for 65T class. Are you from Philippines ?

Nope we have been improving on Mirage 2000 since decades with Israel and integrated Russian missiles too. They were the reason mirage is still useful at a very low cost. The original OEM charged 42-45 million dollar to do upgrade which doesn't even include an aesa or engine upgrade.

Evidence? Let's talk about fact. 1. Ex RM Late George Fernandes in his book revealed that the IAF spend more than double for the spare parts etc of Mirage compared to any other aircraft in inventory. 2. Taiwan faced the same issue and have said it publicly many a times 3. The article isn't...

I am talking about upgrade deal of Mirage here.

There were other option i.e. Israel That deal was vanilla corrupt.