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India lacks common sense. This disease is everywhere. Everybody is happy creating turfs and engaging in turf wars. Logically we should be having a fleet of 100 Tejas by now! If IAF has any commonsense, it should be buying second hand F-16s right now.

They have a fleet 6 times our fleet. They have far more flying than us. Your conclusion is incorrect. Military aircraft are prone to crashes due to a variety of reasons, the first of which is high-performance lightweight engines and the second high amount of electronics inside. I am not an...

IAF needs better maintenance practices as well. Probably getting better-trained technicians should help too.

Military flying is very risky. Accidents do happen even with very advanced aircraft. I think India needs to work out its drones at war footing.

Higher readiness levels and a higher levels of training will increase attrition. Happening everywhere.

US is going through tough times - covid19, unrest etc. I think it does affect military morale.

India should stick to GE414 which is very reliable engine - for AMCA also.

It seems to me that jet engines are becoming unreliable in a push for higher efficiency. The flame temperature is too high. There is a degradation of material in the hot part. Engines from reputed companies like P&W and Snecma have abnormal engine failures. Also engines have more issues when...

Almost civil war like conditions in the USA can affect morale. Not sure if human factor is at play here.

Aircraft veered away from its flight path and probably hit a mountain. A thorough investigation is needed to find the cause.

Every citizen has a right to write a letter to the defence minister and/or prime minister. You can even ask for a meeting with defence minister. Remember defence minister is a public figure and is answerable to the the public.

Operating such old planes is not logical. Machines do rot and decay. Either maintenance is top notch or planes should be retired at 20 years of service. We cannot blame Ukraine. We have to blame our own poor planning and execution. I hope lessons are learnt and people actually correct mistakes.

Boss airlines are too polluting and too expensive to run. Solution is trains. Superfast trains.

Well I meant a handheld laser pointer. This looks like a laser pointer of a tank or something like that. In the case a of military flight; which is unscheduled; the chances of somebody flashing from ground is next to none. One Su-30 went down in the same area in highly suspicious...

You cannot blind a pilot in a fast moving plane with a laser pointer, that is for sure. A high powered laser from a stationary or moving platform can do it though. There have been instances of chinese doing this kind of thing with American and Australian planes. So this theory is not out of the...

Chinese are far ahead in drones. Drones carrying laser weapons are being developed in USA. We have to consider a possibility that China has already developed it. Blinding a pilot is possible even if controls are manual.

Baba has tweeted and I am wondering too if drone based lasers are being used against our aircrafts in Arunachal Pradesh. We need laser countermeasures on all our aircrafts operating in north east.

There has been massive delays in procurement of small transports. Now c295 order is placed. However I fully agree with your point.

Hawk has pilot protection? News to me. Does IAF need "light attack aircraft"? For what? If Army wanted it or CRPF wanted it, I could understand.

Hawk is a trainer, not a ground attack or antiship aircraft. The weapons can be carried for weapons training. The mig27 in storage can be used if need be. Hawk costs as much as LCA. So why not use LCA for ground attack?