lol..... an article by Usman Shabir from pakdef quoting some professor in a college. hahaha!!
Pakistani jingos are literally clutching at straws. Pathetic.
This is what you get when you fight America's war without thinking, and destroy your own economy in the process.
Fly your 49 odd JF-17s...
They are just kids, or adults who have no clue of how a large govt organisation works which handles crores and croes of money, and the limitaions of a single clean man. They want India to get the weapons fast so they can brag about it to the pakistani members!
Anthony is slow because decades of ingrained corruption in the defence establishment has simply made a clean defence procurement impossible. And he cannot claim responsibility for the multitudes of assshole babus who have made defence ministry their home for decades. Anyone who knows Anthony...
Even if its fast it still has to come to where the SAM is(onbaord ships). so your missile will be heading straight to a sam. You dont even have to intercept it an an angle as your missile will be coming staright towards a SAM. The moment a missile is detected its as good as dead. That's why the...
If AWACS is employed for ground targets then it has to first use its radar as an SAR. Using a Radar in the SAR modemeans it's range will have to be sacrificed to be of any use, to find relatrively small ships in the vast expanse of the sea. Bascially SAR means using the radar as a Camera.. the...
And BTW, AWACS band radars cannot detect sea targets because of ground clutter. C and L band have longer wavelengths. you cannot use it for SAR ground target detection. Only shorted wavelengths radar's like X band can give yuo the kind of detail to give you a clear picture needed for ship...
This is just an ballistic missile launched from an Aircraft. It will light up like diwali rockets on all radar screens on the Navy's ships. It is not a cruise missile like brahmos which is a stealthy ground hugging missile. It's just a cheap asss missile with questionable chinese components, for...
MiG-29 kicks Mirage-2000's asss! Mirage-2000 wipes the floor with MiG-23! An IAF Pilot's first hand account of Aircombat between the Fulcrum and the Mirage.
Mirage-2000H vs MiG-29B
Updated - 8th May 2012
Finally a long running debate comes to a closure, a debate which seemed never ending like...
No one cares about tejas. It's just for show and learning experience. Our main backbone fighters are other planes. But the future lifeline of PAF is the JF-17.
Like the link(with references) which someone posted before said, MiG-29B costed only 11 million dollars just 14 years back.
And MiG-29SMT costed burma only 28.8 million dollars including training weapons and spares in 2010. Lets take a estimate of 6-9 million for each aircraft for spares and...
Yes it comes from the same factory, but has a different history after that which plays a significant part in its lethality. The R-27s which the IAF had was procured from the Soviet Union(not second hand!!) and stored and maintained by the IAF, and operated by the IAF. The Missiles which...
And PS: These mercenaries were Russian pilots who after the collapse of the soviet union wouldn't have gotten much flying hours.
PPS: CAG is not part of the government. It is an independent body like the Judiciary.
You yourself quoted how easily such missiles break down. If IAF can only maintain a 14-40% reliability(super imposing the R-77 figure over the R-27) how can ethiopian AF can?
Plus the Second Hand Su-27s delivered Ethiopian airforce, would have come with second hand R-27s from storage. And god...
Oh, alright, now i get it. The "missile launchers" mentioned are R-77 missile launch racks. You confused missile launch rack with another type of missile. And i think the breakdown of missile procurement above is from SIPRI or whatever they are called. They are just analysts who make educated...