All I see a wastage of one Rafale resource associated with it just for posturing.Out of 10 women fighter pilots one will be chosen to fly the Rafale on joining the Golden Arrows squadron. The woman pilot in question has been flying MiG-21 fighters. She was one of the 10 chosen to fly Rafale jets following a stringent selection process and is undergoing training now. However, the name of the lady fighter pilot is yet to be disclosed.
Most likely I feel it would be Avani Chaturvedi who was part of the first batch of combat pilots along with Mohana Singh Jitarwal and Bhawana Kanth. The trio was inducted into the Indian Air Force fighter squadron in June 2016.
In 2018, Avani became the first Indian woman pilot to go solo on a MiG -21 Bison.
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Their aircraft is named FCK-1?
F-CK-1... Fighter-Ching-Kuo-1.Their aircraft is named FCK-1?
Foolish to assume IAF would posture on its gold plated weapon.You are implying the female pilot is less capable than her male counterpart or IAF has relaxed standards in some way.This is rubbish,piloting is not infantry.We have several excellent female pilots in civilian sector and military won't be much different.Infact in ww2 you had instances of german aces being shot down by russian female pilots.Sniper,tank commander and pilot are 3 duties women can perform as well as any man.Frontline infantry is another thing.Ofcourse logistics and signals,manning defensive installations,station radar or radio operators are other jobs.All I see a wastage of one Rafale resource associated with it just for posturing.
I respect the female pilots but they could have moved on to train in transport and logistics operations first.
Though I do feel somewhere if her e.g. reaches to children may be girls instead of Bolly crap might move on to admire real deal.
Foolish to assume IAF would posture on its gold plated weapon.You are implying the female pilot is less capable than her male counterpart or IAF has relaxed standards in some way.This is rubbish,piloting is not infantry.We have several excellent female pilots in civilian sector and military won't be much different.Infact in ww2 you had instances of german aces being shot down by russian female pilots.Sniper,tank commander and pilot are 3 duties women can perform as well as any man.Frontline infantry is another thing.Ofcourse logistics and signals,manning defensive installations,station radar or radio operators are other jobs.
There were in-fact some noise which suggests that IAF had relaxed many criteria to boost women participation in the forward roles. Already height criteria was relaxed. Many short height officers got inducted.Foolish to assume IAF would posture on its gold plated weapon.You are implying the female pilot is less capable than her male counterpart or IAF has relaxed standards in some way.This is rubbish,piloting is not infantry.We have several excellent female pilots in civilian sector and military won't be much different.Infact in ww2 you had instances of german aces being shot down by russian female pilots.Sniper,tank commander and pilot are 3 duties women can perform as well as any man.Frontline infantry is another thing.Ofcourse logistics and signals,manning defensive installations,station radar or radio operators are other jobs.
EMI per le lo ..... Lease par mut lo.... Kal kitne Kuch toota to full MRP Dena padegaArmed Forces may get to lease platforms, equipment soon
The armed forces will soon be allowed to take a variety of equipment on lease, cutting down acquisition time as well as costs as the defence ministry is revising its procurement rules to bring in some much needed changes.
The draft Defence Procurement Policy, released by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, has special incentives for Indian designed and developed products, promotes the use of offsets for exports and has introduced a new category that will encourage foreign vendors to set up manufacturing facilities in India.
A significant change has been the provision to lease equipment like transport aircraft, trainers and simulators that do not have a direct combat role. “Leasing has been introduced as a new category for acquisition to substitute huge initial capital outlays with periodical rental payments,” the defence ministry has said.
Given the inadequate budgetary allocations, the option will come in handy for the forces to obtain equipment at short notice. Options for leasing trainer aircraft and transport helicopters have been made in the past to the ministry but were not taken up in the absence of a policy.
The ministry has also incorporated lessons from the past by formulating new `trial wings’ under different services of the armed forces that will specialise in conducting field evaluations. These wings will have personnel that will be given training to ensure a fair competitive process. In the past, trial teams have been manned by officers drawn from different roles, often resulting in the results being under par.
“Field Evaluation Trials to be conducted by specialised trial wings and the objective of trials will be to nurture competition rather than elimination for minor deficiencies,” the ministry has said.
The draft policy, which will be finalised after receiving inputs from the industry, also plans to increase the Indigenous Content (IC) stipulated in various categories by 10% to support the ‘Make in India’ initiative.
Significantly, there is a specific assurance in the policy to jet engine manufacturers and chip manufactures that the entire Indian market will be open if any company sets up a manufacturing unit domestically.
This would mean that if a company sets up shop here to manufacture, say fighter jet engines, it will be assured that the engine would be incorporated on the suitable home developed platform without a competition. The engines made here would be termed as `buyer nominated equipment’, meaning that they will compulsorily have to be fitted onboard the suitable platform.
While imports have already been at the bottom of the procurement priority list, they have been further pushed back with a new category to be introduced – Buy Global, Manufacture in India. This would require a minimum 50% indigenous content on cost basis of the contract value.
Other changes include new rules for the procurement of software and systems related projects where obsolescence is rapid, requiring a flexibility in approach. New rules on product support will incorporate new concepts like Performance Based Logistics (PBL), Life Cycle Support Contract (LCSC) and Comprehensive Maintenance Contract (CMC).
“With the experience gained by the industry and the Ministry of Defence (MoD), it is now time to take further steps to strengthen ‘Make in India’ initiative, refine Life Cycle Support of procured equipment & platforms and hasten the defence acquisition process by further simplifying the procedures & reducing the overall procurement timelines.” Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said at a ceremony to release the draft policy.
Knowing the Russians, they will offer it with purchase of the remaining 15 examples in their inventory.
15 example ? Mig 29 frames ?? They should give us for free .. initially reported 20 mn then 25-27 mn and now reports say one unit costed 40mn with some spare parts .Knowing the Russians, they will offer it with purchase of the remaining 15 examples in their inventory.
That was then. They also should have stuck with M2K for original MMRCA too. Our aero manufacturing ecosystem would have been good by now.15 example ? Mig 29 frames ?? They should give us for free .. initially reported 20 mn then 25-27 mn and now reports say one unit costed 40mn with some spare parts .
If we had to pay such amount could have bought Mirage 2k from Qatar and UAE they were asking the same price in mid 2000 and we backed out.