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srevster

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IAF top brass can make commission by choosing the plane too.

Longer they stall , longer the bribe keep dripping.
who cares what IAF buys. If other airforces in the world buy F-21 with Lockheed's marketing, it's $$$ going into our economy and demand for rupees going up.

IAF is free to buy what it wants from that larger defense budget. anytime someone offers to manufacture something in India, we need to roll out the red carpet to secure those deals.
 

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The biggest mistake IAF made is choosing quality over quantity. Insisted of buying quality products from US & EU, if IAF choose Russian with maximum tech and desi/indigenous ones, like 100~200 mig29/35/35 desi + 150+ lca mk1, IAF able to defend against both China & Pak. Now Chinese quantity dominated over IAF quality & quantity having its own quality.
Anyways, its good, now IAF have no choice but to buy ada/hal products, and GoI not going to spend 20~40 billion $s to buy foreign jets & quantity having its own quality.
GoI need to fast track engine jv & needed to support HAL & DRDO labs with out any delay.
 

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who cares what IAF buys. If other airforces in the world buy F-21 with Lockheed's marketing, it's $$$ going into our economy and demand for rupees going up.

IAF is free to buy what it wants from that larger defense budget. anytime someone offers to manufacture something in India, we need to roll out the red carpet to secure those deals.
IAF is not against GoI or LM, they can assemble f16 in India and sell to any country including pakistan. Its their issue, and not IAFs, IAF only want 180 eft or rafale, and don't care about its production country or offsets etc.... or tot ....etc. LM can build f16 , f35, f22, etc in India and IAF don't care.
 

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Right on cue as predicted. Serious defeciencies , we will fight with what we have..yada...yada.. but will not order more Tejas MK1a nor commit more no.s to Tejas MK2...we need gold plated MRFA only....young pilots losing their lives flying MiG-21 is ok.
reminds of a nagging nursery school kid
 

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Right on cue as predicted. Serious defeciencies , we will fight with what we have..yada...yada.. but will not order more Tejas MK1a nor commit more no.s to Tejas MK2...we need gold plated MRFA only....young pilots losing their lives flying MiG-21 is ok.
reminds of a nagging nursery school kid
What is goverment doing ? They should be shacked for putting.
these guys instead drawing out battle plans ,thinking of new way waging war(in our case defending). Finding new type of tech keep doing mujra of”deficiencies” which can only be fulfilled by imported maal.
Goi should install good defence committee of competent but also people who believe in desi MIC. And starts handing out reforms .start overhauling of entire officer cader.
 
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1st one is definitely confirmed but are the last two confirmed?..or is there any IAf official who has commented about these plans?
No confirmation for the last two but HAL signed an agreement with IAI for the conversion so most probably it is in the pipeline.
 

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No confirmation for the last two but HAL signed an agreement with IAI for the conversion so most probably it is in the pipeline.
Yes I've heard about the 767 plan but not of the 747 ...anyway i hope IAF is in on these plans will save a lot of time and money
 

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A doubt
Looking at dire state of squadron strength why isn't pmo interfering or showing its action
Do they want to ignore by acting as unaware about the issue
 

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A doubt
Looking at dire state of squadron strength why isn't pmo interfering or showing its action
Do they want to ignore by acting as unaware about the issue
what can he do?..order more rafales?..that will take more than 3 years for first deliveries to arrive?...tejas mk2?..stil years away.....only option is to order more tejas mk1a and ramp up its production ...order for more su30's and migs would have been great but with the current situation that too might not be possible....both govt and IAf has been digging this hole for a long time now.....
 

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what can he do?..order more rafales?..that will take more than 3 years for first deliveries to arrive?...tejas mk2?..stil years away.....only option is to order more tejas mk1a and ramp up its production ...order for more su30's and migs would have been great but with the current situation that too might not be possible....both govt and IAf has been digging this hole for a long time now.....
We have to wait till aero India definitely there will an order, if not then mk1a is finished
 

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What are talking vai mk1a is is already under order
Not in sufficient number considering we are operating 100+ jaguars and 50 mig21 which will be retired soon.
Sanctioned squadron strength is 42 so we require at least 10 squadron of mk1a/mk1 which will be around 200-220.
Also the availability rate of su30 has gone dramatically low after ukrain war and upgrade is also pending due to lack of spares
 

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