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1. Really? Do you have any idea just how difficult and dangerous it is to conduct night sorties from an Aircraft Carrier? Sorties that include both arrested recoveries and take off. The Indian military takes the greatest precautions when any sort of supervised ops are conducted. If any...

Is it? Lemme see if I can find the source.

1. Night ops are far more significant than just a PR exercise. I do believe that neither the Russians nor the PLAN can even think of doing night ops. No navy will conduct sortie ops at night with fighters that have "availability issues". A lot of work was done with IAF's help to enhance their...

Both the Rafale and the F-18 should be easily capable of taking off from a Ski Jump. Hell, the Russians did it MiG-27s!!! The thrust to weight ratio of all three birds (MiG 29K, Rafale M and F-18 Super Hornet) are very similar but the question remains of payloads and combat radius.

We getting a bit off topic here. Couple of observations to throw in: 1. The MiG 29Ks arguably atrocious availability rates have improved. Especially with the recent exercise that saw night ops. That's a nail in the coffin of the whole nightmare maintenance argument. 2. It still sucks as a...

Transfer all MiG29Ks to the IAF and let the IN switch over to F-18 ASH completely.