Recent content by TANMAY619

it will be tough with the brave pakistani army backing taliban and other insurgents in the area. terrorists all round the world find a ray of hope in the great pakistani army(remember laden in abbotabad). ya they were busy killing unarmed bengalis and raping unarmed women(3mn murders and...

try making a fighter plane on your own you will understand how difficult it is, the number 32 years is misleading as the specifications were changed many times in between. its easy to import but difficult to develop on yourown

the cost is low does not mean its a bad aircraft. the cost is low due to the relatively lower labour cost in india and the lower cost of materials bad economy of russia. had a similar fighter been produced say, in u.s or france its cost would have been at least 75mn$ per ac.

india has friendly relations with bhutan, maldives, nepal, myanmar, and dont forget we liberated bangladesh from u we dont attack every neighbour like them. we had wars against pakistan as they attacked us(attacking j&k in 1948, operation grandslam 1965,operation chengiz khan in 1971, capturing...

china's neighbours- 1.india 2.pakistan 3.japan 4.vietnam 5.nepal 6.bhutan 7.russia 8.kazakhstan 9.s.korea 10.n.korea 11.taiwan 12.tajikstan 13.kyrgystan 14.myanmar 15.laos 16.mongolia. Out of them china has had war with 1.india 2.japan 3.vietnam 4.s.korea and had conflicts...

prc has disputes with india, japan, taiwan and vietnam. i dont think there any dispute with others. it had dispute with ussr but that is past. pakistan has no dispute as it follows appeasement policy by ceding parts of jk to prc.

but russian avionics are not good thats why we got israeli nd french avionics on mkis

no paf ac has radar or ew system as good as mki. dont tell about the awacs as we also have phalcon awacs which are considered the best. even j 10b would be no match and dont bring in jf 17 as it has sub standard avionics and any rational person knows it. iaf's mkis have 170km range missiles and...

i dont think paf has any deep strike ac that can strike as deep as the mkis.

by 2020 iaf' new fleet 280 su 30mki 60 rafales(from 2015 at 12 ac/year) 48 lca mk1 75 lca mk2(15/year from 2015) 15 fgfa 120 jaguars darin2 68 mig 29upg 48 mirage 2000mk2 may be some mig 21s(i dont think iaf will retire them by 2018) i dont think we are going amca ready before 2025. its still a...

we should rope in israel as a partner in the program. even japan is building its own 5th gen ac and they may also be roped in as we have a common enemy china . we should get more partners to save money and dev time. israel already has already developed aesa radar and may be japan has(i guess...

we should get some cruise missile submarines like oscar class supported by akulas, that will take care of chinese carriers

ya lakshyadeep should also have such a base

BUT friends did you hear what problems f 22 is facing? around 200 pilots have opted for transfer and its maintainance is very costly. so if after 10 years of completion usaf is finding so much trouble so i don't think it think we will be able to complete it in next 15 years. we are still far...

IAF will be supported by spyder SAMs, barak8s and possibly S400s