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Bro actual force feeding can only be done at time of signing of contract. Right now even the first flight hasn't occurred. Otherwise Mk2 in its current form survived only due to this government (Parrikar ji, but he was also of this government). Dekhte hain bhai. We can only hope. They did it...

I admire your optimism. But this paricular IAF chief doesn't inspire any confidence. Now my only hope is this Government returns in 2024 and then force feeds IAF the Mk2.

@abingdonboy nibba, Air Force reduced Tejas Mk2 from 7 now down to 6 squadrons. :scared1: Depends on the ISR, who is telling you where the SAM are? Regardless, ARM are still very relevant, especially those with active homing in terminal phase, like the upgraded HARM or Rudram-1. USAF uses a...

Facilities is definitely doable. The article was talking about jets. These so-called defence journos are all dunces.

This: https://defenceforumindia.com/threads/drdo-psu-and-private-defence-sector-news.55/page-1679#post-2341185

Reasons not to believe it:- 1.) My take, instead of news beat. 2.) It was a joke I made on another thread. WTF do they mean use each other's aircraft? Do even NATO have such arrangements in place? UAE and Indian Rafale have differences, right? And how are they going to account for equality in...

Reasons to believe its true:- 1.) Its News Beat, not My Take 2.) Earlier reports said that first flight will be in 2024, so 2023 end rollout seems plausible.

We won't reach 42 if we target 42. We'll reach it if we target 60. That is how Indian bureaucracy works: in perpetual deficit.

IAF keeps harping about 114 MRFA and 42 squadrons. Meanwhile, PLAAF is inducting 120 jets in one year. IAF really needs to revise 42 squadrons number upwards to at least 60. And to reach and maintain that number, we need around 40 jets per annum in long term and more than that in the...

Assuming around 150 flying hours per annum (minimum flight hours to develop well trained combat pilot skills), one would reach 500+ hours within 3 years and 5 months. Sounds like something one would achieve in a single posting to a Su-30MKI squadron (or are Air Force postings shorter in duration?).

I think IAF needs to start revising the 42 squadron limit upwards right now because its going to be a while before GoI accepts the need for this and Chinese are building new airfields by the day eroding our advantage there. If IAF first waits to achieve 42 squadrons and then starts talking about...

IAF annual CAPEX is close to $7-8 Billion, not $5 Billion. But that is being used for MAFI and AD upgrades also, so yeah, fighter procurement budget is much less than that. All this nonsense could have been avoided had we just gone ahead with the original MMRCA purchase instead of lowering the...

And an ultrawideband AESA seeker would be able to utilize the entire spectrum of both Ku and X bands, therefore taking advantage of both. Right?

Agreed, but EW suites are also co-evolving. GaN AESA based SPJs will also proliferate just as AESA seeker AAMs will. . ECCM is jamming resistance.

Have the seeker frequency range as 10GHz +/- 2 GHz, i.e. between 8 and 12 GHz. That is still between the optimal bands X and Ku. Non-UWB seekers won't achieve such a wide range. Wonder when Army will order these for the T-90. DRDO already demoed it for that application.

Wouldn't an AESA BVRAAM seeker with vilvaldi be ultrawideband and thus more difficult to jam?

What new is JATM bringing to the table that Astra Mk-3 won't?

It would make much more sense if you look at CAPEX/Revenue budget ratio of each of the Forces separately instead of these pie charts of total budget share between Forces. That will show how IAF spends > 50% of its budget on CAPEX, Navy spends near 50% on CAPEX but Army spends a very very low %...

Would be pretty hilarious (and depressing at the same time) to see a country like Australia, that doesn't even make cars, fielding F-35, unmanned wingmen, B-21 Raiders and Murican level SSNs in the IOR.

Can anyone tell me if the IAF even operates ground launched BrahMos? As far as I know, they don't. Only Navy and Army have ground launched BrahMos. Right? And Tigersharks of Air Force (who can launch BrahMos-A) are in South India. So how come there was a launch of BrahMos into Pakistan and IAF...