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  1. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Su-34 and Su-30 both derived from SU-27. Platypus beak is there since Russians want side by side config seats. Apart from few additional Radars. It is same as SU-30. Upgrading the SU-30 is more that useful
  2. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Because they are just money Laundering in the name of making movies. If you need to bring an Technically sound movie then you need to invest in a lot of money. Eg. Avatar series. Then to carry that momentum you need to have a good convincing story with top notch diagloues. But here we have is...
  3. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    We need additional Tejas my friend. The only plane which is currently able to manufacture faster and get it on air. We cannot use our Top most birds like SU-30 MKI and Rafale for Pakis theatre. Chinese theater is a main threat here and these war planes needed there. Having Additional Tejas...
  4. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    2023 Starts with the bang for IAF now.
  5. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Sucking up to Rafale is waste of time honestly. We are just self sabotaging the existing programs under various stages. If production by HAL is time consuming process then utilize Private companies to help in maintaining good production rate. Tata is going to setup a plant with help of Airbus...
  6. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Finally some sane Decision. C-295 will replace the Avro and AN-32 Fleet. So, we have some standardization of Cargo Fleet. C-295 C-130 Hercules C-17 and IL-76. If possible, we can collaborate with Embraer for C-390 which will help to complement the Hercules fleet or simply we can get sufficient...
  7. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Combat Ratio is skewed towards them. They can have 2 planes for an aircraft lost compared to that we would run out of planes if we started to lose it. As two front is base. We need a strong air force since Pakis are also getting J10. So, we need to manage the JF17, F16, J10 from Pakistan.
  8. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Well Current IAF chief on some Dream land. Only IAF chief who was in reality is RKS Sir. Few things we can do order Second tranche of Rafale 36 flights. Even that will come after 2024 for political reason. This will push the strength to 72 planes. Meanwhile give an increased order for MK1A and...
  9. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Entire Porkiland has 405 Combat planes currently. Adding additional 58 J10C we will get a grand value of 463 combat planes. Composition: 1. J10C - 72 (Currently 14 in service) 2. JF17 - 134 3. F16 - 75 4. Mirage III - 60 (Older Radar Grifo) 5. Mirage 5 - 69 (Older Radar Grifo) 6. Chengdu F7 -...
  10. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Looks like Mig 29 is running on Crude oil.
  11. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Out of 17 IL-76. I am able to find 12 of them in single airport (Chandigarh)
  12. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    From the link. Its Raining F-35 offers to India After Japanese Think tank now British defense publication claims that India is silently negotiating with the American government for the purchase of F-35 jet fighter jets and now another west backed publication has claimed that India will be...
  13. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Please tell when did Lockheed martin who manufactures F 35 ready to sell to India. Please provide proof. On the other there are lot of official promo videos for F21 by LM itself. F 35 never fielded in MRFA 1 and 2.
  14. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    As US is providing F - 35 from get go. Come on man, just check the MRFA and the plane is only F 21 aka F 16. No where US even hinted they will provide F 35 to India, these are all some dormitory based Firangi Indian Imagination.
  15. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Jokes on you, I am currently undergoing maneuvering trials in Asteroid belt.
  16. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Another Jumla by our ex IAF guys.
  17. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Don't know. But I feel we wasted the opportunity with Nirbhay. We can go on iterative stage. Block 1 - Using Russian engine, seeker and other tech from DRDO. Block 2 - Using Manik and tech from DRDO Block 3 - Increased Range version. We could have developed in line with Tomahawk but we dropped...
  18. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    LSP and currently deployed by Army in LAC against China. ITCM is currently under development
  19. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Russians always sell planes in flyaway cost to anyone. Thus it suffers from spares and every issue they need to have russian help. Coming to TU - 160. Serial Production consists of only 36. Lastly I think they are not producing new airframes they are upgrading existing frames. So they are not...
  20. Arjun Mk1A

    Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

    Is it we demonstrate Satcom in TAPAS which helps to land and take off automatically. We have the tech in our hand right now, lets say if we have functional ETOPS (Currently going to be tested), Reliable Kaveri engine and good control laws for the aircraft. We already had some building blocks...
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