Indian Air Force News & Discussions

[kaykay]

I found a pic of indian c-130j...but why this look so weird????..

 

[RPK]

I found a pic of indian c-130j...but why this look so weird????..

Not Indian paint scheme is different

 

[kaykay]

Not Indian paint scheme is different

well it was posted as Indian...but anyway why this looks fuc*ed??????

 

[RPK]

well it was posted as Indian...but anyway why this looks fuc*ed??????

compare with Previous page Image....

 

[arp2041]

DRDO's Strike Scenario For 3 Indian Fighter Efforts

 

[kaykay]

DRDO's Strike Scenario For 3 Indian Fighter Efforts

worst thing is all mentioned aircrafts are yet to be operational.........lolz

 

[Abingdonboy]

I found a pic of indian c-130j...but why this look so weird????..

Something to do with the resolution of the camera that took the pic and lighting/shadows. This was discussed sometime ago when pic was first released.

 

[SpArK]

IAF Mi-17 choppers rescue 8 persons incl 2 pregnant women from stranded boat on Dibong River, in upper Assam today.

Bravo, 128 Helo Unit.

 

[arp2041]

As per wikipedia IAF has :

su-30mki - 165+
mig-29 - 67
mirage 2000s - 49
mig 27s - 120
jaguar -128
mig -21 - 250

Total - 779 fighter aircrafts, if we take a squadron as 21 aircrafts it comes out to be around 37 squadrons.

what i want to ask, is the tension of depleting squadron strength of IAF false??

 

[kurup]

As per wikipedia IAF has :

su-30mki - 165+
mig-29 - 67
mirage 2000s - 49
mig 27s - 120
jaguar -128
mig -21 - 250

Total - 779 fighter aircrafts, if we take a squadron as 21 aircrafts it comes out to be around 37 squadrons.

what i want to ask, is the tension of depleting squadron strength of IAF false??

Nope ..... The minimum sanctioned strength of the IAF is 39.5 squadrons of combat aircraft, with a healthy level of 44 squadrons.

Due to frequent crashes and attrition losses , the force levels have fallen to 34 combat squadrons, a big worry for the IAF. Further phasing out of aircraft has meant that the IAF now operates only 32 fighter squadrons, which represents a serious depletion of force levels. Even with the planned MMRCA procurement, the IAF will reach sanctioned strength only by 2017.

Indian MRCA competition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[SpArK]

IAF choppers rescue 21 persons from swamp in Rann of Kutch.

 

[kaykay]

As per wikipedia IAF has :

su-30mki - 165+
mig-29 - 67
mirage 2000s - 49
mig 27s - 120
jaguar -128
mig -21 - 250

Total - 779 fighter aircrafts, if we take a squadron as 21 aircrafts it comes out to be around 37 squadrons.

what i want to ask, is the tension of depleting squadron strength of IAF false??

here everything seems right except mig-21s....I really doubt if we have still 250 operational 21s.....I thought they are not more than 150-180.

 

[SpArK]

450 technical personnel inducted into Indian Air Force


PTI | 06:06 PM,Jun 29,2012
Chennai, Jun 29 (PTI) A total of 450 men today joined the Indian Air Force as automobile technicians and fitters on completion of their training at the Mechanical Transport Training Institute here. Of them, 426 had completed training for the technicians and 24 for fitters at the institute located in the IAF station at suburban Avadi. Air Commodore P K Bapat, Air Officer Commanding, Air Force Station Avadi, was the chief guest and reviewing officer on the occasion, a Defence release said. The Trophies Best in Trade was awarded to LAC N Pathak of Automobile Fitter Course and LAC Deepak Rawat of Automobile Technician Course, it said. A C Inderjeet Rai of Automobile Fitter and AC SS Rawat of Automobile Technician were awarded Best in General Service Training, LAC N Pathnak of Automobile Fitter and LAC Deepak Rawat of Automobile Technician were the winners of Best all rounder, respectively, it added.

 

[sancho]

worst thing is all mentioned aircrafts are yet to be operational.........lolz

Worst is, that IAF supports this DRDO PR attempt although it's operationally useless. Even this graphic shows that there is hardly any difference between FGFA and AMCA in operationally terms, except of range. So when we already pay such a big price for FGFA and will have MKI and Rafale for the medium and long range attacks to, there is simply no role that AMCA would really be needed for!
But if DRDO really would want to support IAF, then they would focus on LCA in the short term and AURA and armed drones in the long term!

Long range pre-emptive strikes on priority targets - AURA / FGFA / Rafale / Super 30 MKI
Medium range strikes on priority targets - AURA / FGFA / Rafale / Super 30 MKI
Medium range strikes on secondary targets - Rafale / Super 30 MKI / armed drones / LCA
Short range CAS strikes on secondary targets - armed drones / LCA / Jags / LCH / Rudra

 

[arp2041]

here everything seems right except mig-21s....I really doubt if we have still 250 operational 21s.....I thought they are not more than 150-180.

there are still 250 mig 21s in the IAF of this some 140 has been upgraded as mig-21 bisons, so we have a decent no. of fighter squadrons in the IAF, with nearly 1 squadron of su-30s added each year (though this also means some mig-21s decommissioned)+ in two years time both LCA & Rafale will also add to that nos., so why this fuss about depleting squadron strengths vis-a-vis PAF.