Why does Birds only hit Indian planes? Many Air forces around the world don’t have this problem but India, why is that? Even the Porki Camel Pee drinkers have Airbases near Karachi and Gwader but none of there aircraft crash like this both F-16 and Junk Fighter-17 Blunder. India needs to overhaul our Airforce and Naval Air Arm.
I supppose every nation has the fair share of such incidents.
Theres a lot of such studies strewn all over the internet.
Bird-hits – the new enemy IAF is struggling to defeat
Bird-hits contribute to about 10% of fighter jet accidents. IAF officers blame it on lack of bird-detection radars, manpower & filth outside air bases.
New Delhi: A spate of bird-hit incidents at major air bases have alarmed the Indian Air Force, so much so that it has
filed a complaint with the local district administration of Ambala in Haryana about the increasing
population of pigeons bred near the base.
Ambala is one of IAF’s frontline bases which played an active role during the Kargil conflict as the Mirage 2000s were deployed from there. In peace time it houses the Jaguar strike aircraft and the MiG-21 Bisons. More importantly, the first batch of the Rafale fighters will be based in Ambala.
In June this year, the base got a scare when a Jaguar aircraft suffered engine failure due to a bird-hit soon after take-off but managed to land safely by jettisoning its additional fuel tanks. The IAF’s worry, however, is not just limited to Ambala or the Rafales as the force is also expecting to induct upgraded aircraft in the coming months.
A sizeable problem
Last week, a Sukhoi Su-30 MKI was not so lucky in Jodhpur in neighbouring Rajasthan as it suffered
major damage after a bird-hit. In fact, the Jodhpur base alone has registered 53 bird-hit cases in five years, of which nine were reported just this year.
Since 2017, the Gwalior air base has seen three bird-hits, as has the Pune air base. The Tezpur base in Assam has witnessed two incidents, while there has also been one at the Hasimara base in West Bengal.
Bird-hits contribute to about 10 per cent of the accidents faced by fighter aircraft — between April 2011 and March 2014, military pilots reported 504 such incidents. While the IAF refused to share latest consolidated numbers for bird-hits across the country, sources in the force said the problem remains a major concern.
The IAF relies on zone guns and crackers to scare away birds.
India had plans to procure 45 bird-detection radars for the IAF and the Navy, but that never materialised. The tender to procure the radars at a cost of Rs 250 crore was
cancelled by the government in 2015 when four firms were competing for the order.
https://theprint.in/india/bird-hits-the-new-enemy-iaf-is-struggling-to-defeat/273211/
So...lets not blame the pilots..but lets see what stopped the correction measures..
Pigeon breeding part near the airports..hmmm...thats a serious threat!