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Which role suits LCA 'Tejas' more than others from following options?

  • Interceptor-Defend Skies from Intruders.

    Votes: 342 51.3%

  • Airsuperiority-Complete control of the skies.

    Votes: 17 2.5%

  • Strike-Attack deep into enemy zone.

    Votes: 24 3.6%

  • Multirole-Perform multiple roles.

    Votes: 284 42.6%
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    667
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ersakthivel

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The trend today is to use a true ESM (Electronic Support Measures) receiver on a fighter, rather than the established and relatively simple Crystal Video Receiver (CVR) or scanning superhet (SSH) based RWRs.

Moreover, we are seeing the use of interferometric techniques for the precision angular measurement of threat position, and passive rangefinding techniques to provide accurate surface emitter location. This means that the modern ESM fitted to a fighter is as much a defensive aid, as an offensive targeting tool to support BVR AAM launches, and attacks on surface based radar systems.
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So the tracking radar that guides the 5th gen's BVR missiles against LCA or anyother 4th gen can easily be detected and shot at by BVRs from LCAs and other 4th gens.

Also in a mixed group tacitcs sukhois in the LCA group or ew crafts can easily jam the LINK 16 emittors that guide these missiles in the future with improvement in R&D .That too as per Dr.CARLO KOPP's view in the same sites.

So any supposed superiority of 5th gen is only against non ew assisted fighter groups. LCA's will have fullew support in their point defense role on home ground and they can exploit the low wing loading and lower RCS and can give a good account against anygen fighters.
 
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Squadrons that moved from Migs to MKI.

No 8 Squadron (Mig-21 to MKI)
No 30 Squadron (Mig-21 to MKI)
No 31 Squadron (A few posts back I mentioned they moved from Mig-27s but that's wrong) (Mig-23 to MKI)
No 2 Squadron (Mig-27 to MKI)

3 other squadrons had no aircraft when the MKI squadrons were formed. No 2, 20, 24 have MKI squadrons and were formed from scratch after being disbanded.

These were just replacement aircraft for the squadrons and don't necessarily relate to what aircraft were actually replaced at a tactical level. The aircraft they directly replaced are as below:

They are all located in AFSs - Pune, Bareilly, Tezpur, Chabua, Halwara and Kailakunda.

MKIs moved to Halwara replaced 1 Mig-21 squadron and 1 Mig-23 squadron.
MKIs moved to Chabua replaced 2 Mig-21 squadrons.
MKIs moved to Tezpur replaced 2 Mig-21s squadrons.
MKIs moved to Kalaikunda replaced 1 Mig-21squadron.

Bareilly AFS had a squadron of Mig-21s and Mig-25s. MKIs replaced the Mig-21 while another squadron was moved to Kalaikunda(No 2).
Lohegaon(Pune) AFS is a different story. They have a lot of aircraft. Mig-21s, Jaguars, Mig-29s and MKIs. The Mig-29s were moved to Hindon. The 2 MKI squadrons replaced the Mig-21s. Pune has 2 squadrons of MKIs.

Total 7 squadrons, all replaced Mig-21s directly.

In the future also, we know that IAF plans on equipping another squadron each in Tezpur, Chabua and Kalaikunda for a total of 6 MKI squadrons in the NE.
 
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