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UPDATED Numbers Of Indian Airforce from Flight Global 2015

UPDATED Numbers Of Indian Airforce from Flight Global 2015

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INDIAN AIR FORCEFORCE
TypeActiveOrdered
Combat Aircraft
Jaguar M/S117
MiG-21247
MiG-2787
MiG-2966
Mirage 2000H44
Rafale C149*
Su-30MKI16192
T-50(Sukhoi)144*
TejasLCA119+40*
Special mission
707(Recce)5
ERJ-145(AEW)3
G100 Astra(Recce)2
Global 5000(Recce)1
Gulfstream III(EW)3
Il-76(AEW)32
Tanker
A3306*
Il-787
Transport
An-32100
C-1791+6*
C-130J56+1*
Dornier22840
HS74859
Il-7617
Medium Transport Aircraft45*
Combat helicopter
AH-64E22
CH-47F15
Dhruv ALH4665
Light Combat Aircraft65
Mi-8/1722234
Mi-24/3520
Mi-263
SA315141
SA316/31974
Training aircraft/helicopters
Hawk 1326540+20*
HJT-16 Kiran81
Jaguar T30
Mirage 2000TH10
PC-7 MK II4926+106*
Rafale B40*
Saras15
Tejas LCA20
INDIAN ARMY AVIATION
Combat Helicopter
Dhruv ALH73151
Light Combat Helicopter114
SA3152718
SA3164
INDIAN NAVY
Combat Aircraft
MiG-29/K2322
Sea Harrier FRS518
Tejas LCA8
Tu-1428
Special mission
737 (P-8I) (MPA)62+16*
BN-2 (MPA)8
Dornier 228 (MPA)26
Il-18 (MPA)5
Transport
Saras15
US-218*
Combat helicopter
Dhruv ALH816
Ka-28144
Ka-3114
S-61/UH-3H8
SA316/31930
Sea King 4227
Training aircraft/helicopters
Harrier T4/603
Hawk 132512
HJT-16 Kiran20

Please ignore Rafale Numbers if possible
 

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Re: UPDATED Numbers Of Indian Airforce from Flight Global 2015

UPDATED Numbers Of Indian Airforce from Flight Global 2015

Please ignore Rafale Numbers if possible
The table is inaccurate.
 

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IAF is NOT UP TO THE MARK in maintenance of its inventory. I am sure even Rafale will suffer high accident rate in IAF service. The quality of maintenance in IAF is subpar (learned direct from retired IAF technicians).
Strange that you say that. I got the same kind of feedback from Army Aviation maintenance people. They said there was too much "chalta hai" attitude in Indian Air Force maintenance command. In fact, they even mentioned that Army Aviation pilots were not very eager to fly helos maintained by IAF guys if any opportunity arose.

I took it lightly then and made fun of their comments. Would be delighted if some authoritative clarification came from somewhere !!!
 

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IAF required full-mission simulators for An-32 RE

January 28, 2015: The Indian Air Force has announced its intention to procure two full mission simulators for the upgraded AN-32 RE aircraft. The full mission simulator is intended to be used for flying and mission training of pilots on all roles of the upgraded AN-32 RE aircraft. The Full Mission Simulator (FMS) will be required to faithfully simulate the cockpit and all characteristics of the upgraded AN-32 RE aircraft, in all its role, to 'Zero Flight Hour Standard' (Level-D). The IAF has specified that interested vendors will need to interact with M/s Spets Techo Export of Ukraine (the firm upgrading the IAF An-32 fleet) and the designer of the aircraft Antonov Design Bureau to ascertain and obtain the required details and data for the flying characteristics of AN-32 RE aircraft. A suitable MoU/back to back contract may need to be drawn with these companies for execution of the task, the IAF has stated. The simulator should be certified and acceptance of the simulator by IAF will be based on qualification and acceptance of the simulator by the OEM of the upgraded aircraft, which will need to be arranged by the vendor. A detailed plan, technical capabilities, specifications and arrangement for establishing the FMS for the An-32 RE aircraft will need to be provided in the response from interested vendors.
IAF required full mission simulators for An 32 RE - SP’s Exculsive
 

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Re: UPDATED Numbers Of Indian Airforce from Flight Global 2015

Alternative source please :)
First thing - each fighter class is divided into combat aircraft and combat capable trainer aircraft.
Second - reserves and/or aircraft in storage.
All numbers should be given.
 

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One more MIG21 crashed near Jamnagar.
Saw in on news...
Angry Sad.

They will keep using Mig21 but will not support Tejas
 

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True.

IAF should accept MKI in large numbers till MKII are ready and immediately start replacing Mig21.
MKI should be much better than Mig21. And in today's age Can they use Mig21 in real war ?? they should ask them-self.
 

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IAF is NOT UP TO THE MARK in maintenance of its inventory. I am sure even Rafale will suffer high accident rate in IAF service. The quality of maintenance in IAF is subpar (learned direct from retired IAF technicians).
It is strange that recently two planes of different types both crash in same area. Too much of a coincidence isnt it?
 

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It is strange that recently two planes of different types both crash in same area. Too much of a coincidence isnt it?
The Mig-21 is flying on old engines, where each engine has been serviced too many times. IAF has not ordered news engines. It does not have a reserve of new engines either. I suspect Mig-21 fleet problem is directly related to engine. Soviet fighters were built for a short service life. Our Mig-21s have been serving too long.

The fleet planning and acquisition has been very defective over the years, this is the reason why Mig-21 is still serving.
 

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HAL bags Rs 1,090-cr air force order for 14 Do-228 aircraft

State-owned Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has bagged a major defence contract worth Rs 1,090 crore for supplying 14 Do-228 aircraft to the Indian Air Force.

"Apart from these aircraft, the contract includes six reserve engines, one flight simulator and associated equipments", said T Suvarna Raju

HAL bags Rs 1,090-cr air force order for 14 Do-228 aircraft | The Financial Express
 

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Russian Arms Exporter Finalizing Delivery of 71 Mi-18 Helicopters to India

Russia will finalize the delivery of 71 Mi-18B-5 (Hip) transport helicopters by the end of 2015 a
nd are currently discussing further deliveries, the deputy head of Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport said Tuesday.

"We plan on finishing deliveries by the end of the year. Moreover, we are discussing the possibility with our Indian partners of striking a deal on the purchase of yet another shipment of Mi-17B-5 helicopters," Sergei Goreslavsky told RIA Novosti in an interview ahead of the Aero India-2015 exposition in Bangalore, India, that will open on February 18.

Russia and India signed a contract in 2008 on the delivery of 80 Mi-18B-5 helicopters. In 2012, an option was concluded on the delivery of 71 helicopters.

Read more: http://hindi.sputniknews.com/south_asia/20150217/1013470217.html#ixzz3S1wLwY94
 

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BrahMos Integrated Su-30MKI Handed Over To IAF For Trials

[highlight]HAL CEO T Suvarna Raju With Su-30MKI With BrahMos Missile Model[/highlight]

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has received the first Sukhoi-30MKI fitted with indigenous BrahMos thermonuclear cruise missile ready for trials from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) today during Aero India Airshow. HAL CEO Suvarna Raju and BrahMos CEO and MD Sudhir Kumar Mishra were present during the handing over of the documents to IAF. Earlier this month, HAL had announced successful integration of BrahMos missile's air-based version with a SU-MKI fighter jet earlier this month. The first flight is scheduled in March. Major structural modifications of the missile that include re- distribution of loads on the lifting elements of the aircraft after the bench running have been carried out over the past seven months. The first trial tests are scheduled in March. Second trail fighter jet testing will commence after the March test and all the tests might be completed in about a year. The same pattern will be applied to the existing Indian Air Force's 42 Su-30MKI jets. The Indian government's security committee endorsed allocation of $ 1.1 billion in October 2012 for purchasing 200 BrahMos missiles to be installed on Su-30MKI fighters of the Indian Air Force. The weight of the air-based version of the missile was reduced by 500 kilograms and the length by about 50 centimetres to make the integration successful.
BrahMos Integrated Su-30MKI Handed Over To IAF For Trials
 

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Re: ADA LCA Tejas - IV

@smestarz, I am aware of the points you raised and I have already made posts about this subject on this very forum. However there are additional points.

Managing a number of foreign suppliers is a very big headache for both HAL and IAF. Buying anything in foreign currency involves a lot of procedures.

LCA Tejas will not face many issues that imports face, simply because the supply chain will be managed by HAL and ADA. ADA's support is unique in case of LCA Tejas.
What you say is a very valid point, but try telling that to IAF. IAF do not see it the way you see it, they are more or less of the attitude "paisa phenko tamasha dekho" but more or less IAF is like a clerk who works at a big company and has been asked to bring the payroll to office and he goes to a dance bar and keeps of raining notes like there is no tomorrow, this is how I see IAF.

The operational role is defined, what they end up making request for is something which is not related to operational requirement, but they nevertheless want it.
 
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Re: ADA LCA Tejas - IV

This guy SEn Guptha is a serial liar,

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3545138702780178046&postID=2757552678142069869



Stupid piece of logic, Airframe redesign for mk2 was already visible on NP-2 of tejas so what is the need to talk? And already ADA has clearly said that mk2 of IAF wont need any detailed redesign(even the air intake is proposed to be increased by 10 mm only in dia) . SO there is no point in inventing new conspiracy theories on tejas mk2 by blaming ADA for not talking, when all the aims of tejas mk2 listed out by Senguptha are infact his own speculations.



because mk2 is availbale when 40 tejas mk1 production ends there is no need for IAf to order more. And if there are delays ordering an additional tejas mk1 squadron doesn't require the approval of pakistani PM perhaps!!!!

And once again mr. Sen gupthe is radically redesigning IAF tejas mk2 only in his dreams, because as per ADA other than increasing the engine power to meet 9G and higher turn rates and adding 0.5 meter to gain 5 percent lesser drag figure there is no radical redesign in IAF tejas mk2.

SP-1 and SP-2 were already part made before IOC-2 , and they will be handed over for tactic development to IAf. SO-3 onwards will come from the newer production line and conform to even FOC standard(IAF has given orders fro 20 IOC-2 tejas mk1 and 20 FOC tejas mk1!!!!). So IAF is going to get 36 FOC compliant tejas . why complain?

he ven lies that TR modules and every thing else in tejas mk1 MMR was from Israel and only atena from India,

but there are tons of materials available to show that TR modules of Tejas mk1 MMR was built in india and only the back end processor (that too for the inabilit to finish air to ground mode on time) is from Israel.
Thats why when some one counters Guptha with comments like,


He dumps even more stupid lies!!!!



If he can not explain why tejas mk1 with 20 deg AOA limit and 6G limit could complete a vertical loop within 20 seconds in clean config despite all the talk of massive shortfalls in performance "as alleged by many of it's detractors", he can choose to keep quiet rather than giving such dubious info as response.

Parameters like Thrust to weight ratio, wing-loading, G-load, AoA limit etc etc define what is instantaneous turn rate, sustained rate, climb rate, pitch rate & roll rate—all this when carrying weapons and while not carrying weapons,

Btw tejas has the lowest wing loading of all fighters in IAF this factor combined with TWR determines the all crucial Instantaneous Turn rate ,(excelled by Mirage-2000
and even in mk1 tejas is "atleast equal to 45 million dollar per plane updated mirage-2000" is the award winning test pilot and IAF group captain Suneeth krishna's authentic claim).

This crucial factor is not only in useful in gun fights alone, When fighters close in for dogfight with WVR missiles the fighter with higher Instantaneous Turn Rate will get the first lock and fire solution for its high off bore MHS enabled missile like R-73 on the enemy fighter. This is no trivia that can be dismissed so easily as the guy does it so casually.

All Instantaneous turn rates, Sustained turn rate AOA and G limits published in spec sheet is only in clean config . If the fighters are loaded with similar ratio of external weapons compared to their weight , they will occupy the same space in the ranking which they occupy in clean config ITR, STR tables.

Because Instantaneous turn rates, Sustained turn rate AOA and G limits are meant only for with in visual range WVR missile and gun fights .

Fighters enter the WVR after firing their long range BVR missiles and droping ground bombs and external fuel tanks. No fighter pilot in his sane mind will try to evade enemy BVR with his heavy external fuel tanks and ground weapon while he tries to pull max Instantaneous turn rates, Sustained turn rate AOA and G .

The time taken to complete a vertical or horizontal loop in clean configuration is a measure of the fighter's agility. Thats why they are displayed in airshows giving a true measure of the fighter's ability to the viewers.

There is no need for any aeronautic expert to ask for max Instantaneous turn rates, Sustained turn rate AOA and G with various configuration. These vary according to atmospheric conditions like humidity, temp and height from sea level.

temp in bangalore is close to 30 Deg and it is close to thousand meters above sea level. it is a known fact that STR, ITR will decrease with increase in altitude. In the same way increase in temp will also lead to close to ten percent reduction in both wing lift and engine thrust in indian hot atmospheric conditions compared to the same manouvres pulled by foreign fighters at airshows abroad in sea level altitude and less than 20 deg temp.

Airshow displays are the fanboys is the guy's claim. then can every other fighter do what SU-30 MKI did at airshows away from the airshows?

SO if we apply the logic in reverse by remove the rafale's two 75 Kn engine and replace them with two 50 Kn engine agility, Sustained turn rate , Instantaneous turn rate, G limit, AOA , max take off weight will not change perhaps!!!! canards will take care of everything perhaps!!!!

The reason for the higher STR and ITR of rafale and Typhoon is due to their higher TWR, which directly relates to its high powered lower weight engines. Not all due to canards as eggsputrs often falsely allege. The job of canards(generating flow energizing vortex to delay stall at high AOA, allowing the fighter to have more energy level sat higher AOA) is done by lower swept wing leading edge of tejas in the form of compound delta.

Canards also act as extra control surface. To compensate for the absence of canards tejas has bigger after wing control surfaces compared to gripen.

So how come Tejas mk2 will not enjoy such an advantage if lower powered GE-404 is replaced with higher powered GE-414 engine/ Strange pieces of logic!!!!

Then even without TVC Rafale has very close combat specs compared to typhoon . How?

Govt rules for tejas mk2 engine clearly suggest L1 should be selected . SO it will be tough for any one to side step that.

it is often a tried and tested line to argue for ever that without TVC Eurojet engines and canards tejas won't be fit for IAf in mk1 or mk2. But if we ask how come tejas with 6G limits and 20 Deg AOA restrictions and lesser powered GE-404 engines can complete a vertical loop in Aeroindia 2013 within 20-21 seconds, that too at 1000 meters above sea level and at temps that are over 10 deg higher than noraml temp in airshows abroad,,,,,, all the blah, blah tumbles out to confuse every one!!!!

this is the tactic called throwing stones to hide your hand, mostly displayed in NEWSHOUR with Arnab, by all the political commentators!!!!



Who told Prasoon Senguptha that only canards will fulfill the agility requirement?
Does that mean J-31 is a step down on agility requirement from J-20?

Or
Adding a canard to FGFA and F-35 will increase their agility requirement?

If only canards can fulfill agility requirement why did Russians dropped it in SU-35 and gave it a higher thrust engine than Su-30 MKI for agility requirement?

Won't this way work for tejas mk2 also?

And who told Prasoon Sen guptha that tejas mk1 costs 52 million dollar each?(with ground infra he says it will go up to 7o million dollar plus)!!!

HAL says it costs 26 million dollar per plane. ADA says it is about 30 million dollar.
Adding Canard is not THE requirements of a plane, Tejas PAFKA and F-35 have LEX that do the job of Canards but in different way.
Adding a canard also adds to the radar signature, thus if Eurofighter and Rafale did not have a canard, they would have a smaller radar footprint.

Su-30 MKI has it because it helps in flight characteristics.

PAKFA, Su-35, F-35, do not have canards and these are capable planes.
 

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