India to station tejas at new IAF base in Rajasthan Near Pak Border

[Laughing_soldier]

no, I would rather have Shilpa Shetty. Given the obsessive behavior from Pakistan towards Bollywood, she will have people dancing across the border from here.

They do not like Bollywood and America but cannot live without them as well!

 

[Bossman]

Tejas to be stationed at new IAF base in Rajasthan

India’s self-developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas will be based at the IAF’s brand new forward-operating base at Phalodi in Rajasthan. Medium-lift choppers, Mi-17s will also be stationed at the base which will be 102 km from the India-Pakistan border, said sources.

Uniquely, the new air base that was inaugurated four days ago is the first forward-operating airbase to be commissioned by the IAF in more than two decades. The first lot of the LCA -- a squadron of 20 aircraft -- is scheduled to be handed over to the IAF in 11 months from now. The second squadron will follow a year later -- both are being built at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) unit at Bangalore. Once handed over to the IAF, the LCA’s first base, briefly, will be at a station in South India, from where the fighters will move in batches to Phalodi, the sources said. Moving planes in small batches is a normal IAF procedure. Phalodi has the capacity to handle other aircraft besides deep penetration radars.

Defence Minister A K Antony had told Parliament last month that the first lot of the LCA would be delivered in March 2011. The Air Force is likely to accord ‘initial operational clearance’ by the end of this year.

Phalodi is the sixth IAF base in Rajasthan. It is located almost equidistant from the three existing IAF bases at Jaisalmer, Jodhpur and Nal (Bikaner). The IAF has two others bases in Rajasthan -- Suratgarh and Uttarlai (Barmer). Across the border opposite Phalodi are two major Pakistani military bases in Bahawalpur and Rahimyar Khan.

In the past two decades, the IAF had not commissioned or operationalised a new base as it had focused on improving infrastructure in the existing bases across the country -- some 70 in number. In the past two years, the IAF has reopened defunct advanced landing grounds at Nyoma, Fukche and Daulet Beg Oldie -- all in Ladakh. The forces have a requirement for more than 200 LCA-type aircraft to replace the ageing lot of MiG 21 series of fighters. An additional $ 538.2 million (about Rs 2,500 crore) has been approved by the government for the LCA Phase-II programme. For this, the engines are to be selected soon. The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation

Great news now they are easier targets for an assortment of Pakistani surface and air launched missiles.

 

[MrIndianSikh]

Great news now they are easier targets for an assortment of Pakistani surface and air launched missiles.

good luck with that if your planes can get through Indian air defense systems i'd be surprised the last time one of your military planes tried to enter Indian airspace this happened

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oh and not just that we have Akash Spyder S-300 SA-2 SA-3 SA-4 SA-5 SAM's scanning the skies so best of luck with that buddy

 

[GORKHALI]

Great news now they are easier targets for an assortment of Pakistani surface and air launched missiles.

It Seems only you people in the entire world got missiles..

 

[The_Sidewinder]

It Seems only you people in the entire world got missiles..

yeah mate....we dont have any...only operational missile in indian inventory are those of so called Tipu Sultaan's jamane ka...LOL

 

[kriish]

we were thinking about tht but thn we thought wat is the need to hve engine in lca...i mean why should we risk life of our pilot wen we know tht ur jf 17 with single rd 33 engine wll b a sitting duck infront of our sams akash,spyder and s300....

dude RD 33 is more advanced than RD 93 which JF17-thunder is using ... it has a problem where in it leaves a smoke trail and can be spotted by naked eye so they corrected it and came up with little more improvements and became RD 33 series

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

I think that the RD-93 is the export variant of the RD-33!Our SMT's will get the improved RD-33 series3 Turbofan engines