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Do not forget helos, they remain as very valuable CAS assets- 1. Armed helos - for recon and limited CAS 2. Dedicated attack helos - CAS with wide assortment of weapons and with limited recon.

I think the best aspect of UAVs are their persistence. They can stay over the battle zones for periods that no manned AC can normally endure. UAVs an stalk the enemy and pounce only when needed. Payload is not an issue, current UAVs only have limited payloads because they were not originally...

To preempt any attempt by the IA brass to make their own little air force the IAF can turn to their C130 Js. They can go with the US Marines proposal and configure these units to fire 30mm cannons on the side door or missiles from the wings, "Instant Gunship." The IAF will not lose a...

Interesting. I guess the IAF will be up in arms over these as Su25 is almost a full pledged fighter jet. The US equivalent of Su25 is A10 which is operated by the USAF (and which is even less fighter-like than the Su25).

That would be an excellent decision on the part of IAF. :thumb:

Something like that baby above was used in the Abottabad raid. A more modified version.

"But as IAF & IA doctrine MI-17 suits the role for Tactical operations and MI-26 for heavy lifting like supplies to far north over Ladak...." How about this bird as a possible replacement for the venerable Mi17:

Those Embraers are excellent COIN aircrafts... no arguments there.

"What type of Operation we needed so that we need Chinook" Primarily, heavy lift. Secondary, practically everything else, troops transport, special ops, SAR... Don't you think this will be a more practical machine than a purely heavy lift Mi26T2?

Another excellent contender for heavy lift:

Sorry, not deep inside but off Pakistani shores...

BTW, another amazing footage of Chinook water extraction ops capability... This could be very useful in covertly inserting and extracting Spec Operatives deep inside Pakistan...

If an Mi14 needs additional inflatable flotation devices to float how about Mi26? ("Yes")

Something like this?

"Almost all Helicopters can do this, Its call floating.." I see. Even the Mi26T2?

And Chinook can do this for Special Ops:

As to general altitude characterstics (of Chinnok):

The biggest advantage of the Mi26T2, aside from its brute lifting capacity (well the fuel consumption is also proportional), is its ease of intigration into the IAF as it already operates older Mi26s.

On landing parameters:

Another of the presentations: