Indian Air Force News & Discussions

[Capt.Popeye]

Maybe the IN, not sure about IAF:


IAF's fixed fing a/c still sport the fin flash AFAIK- not the full flag.

ICG:



I wonder if this is an offical policy now

I can't comment since I do not know about this. I don't know of any promulgation about this; like for e.g. when the Naval Ensign was modified or the Collar tabs and Flags/Pennants of General Staff/Flag Rank officers was changed.

I noticed another thing; that the Flag Car of the CAS that I saw on TV had "IAF 1" on it. This was new to me and even seemed a little strange to me. Flag Cars that I'd seen never carried such markings.

 

[Abingdonboy]

I noticed another thing; that the Flag Car of the CAS that I saw on TV had "IAF 1" on it. This was new to me and even seemed a little strange to me. Flag Cars that I'd seen never carried such markings.

Yes I had seen this some time back, will try to find pics
@Capt.Popeye

 

[sudhir007]

 

[kurup]

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Dhruv Navigational Radar

Navigation Radar?..what is that? Is it something to do with TAWS,GPWS or TCAS/ACAS?

Btw if you ask me I think it is a airborne weather radar.

 

[S-DUCT]

Perfect.
vertical and horizontal stabliser's edges are perfectly inclined with wings.

 

[S-DUCT]

 

[Abingdonboy]

The Hindu : Cities / Thiruvananthapuram : Marshal Arjan Singh in capital city

 

[S-DUCT]

 

[james5]

At the present time Indian air force is very strong.

 

[Bratva]

I like to ask about what kind of Data link is used in IAF phalcon AWAC , is it link 16 or something else ? and how much integration with fighters and ground station is completed and what kind of integration problems are being faced?

Do IAF has or will face problems Like PAF has faced integrating Chinese platform with Western AWAC?
@sancho

 

[manojb]

Good video of Mig29K

 

[sancho]

I like to ask about what kind of Data link is used in IAF phalcon AWAC , is it link 16 or something else ? and how much integration with fighters and ground station is completed and what kind of integration problems are being faced?

Do IAF has or will face problems Like PAF has faced integrating Chinese platform with Western AWAC?
@sancho

Link 16 is not useable with Russian fighters as seen in the Red Flag exercise, one reason why IAF has focused to developed own data links with Israeli help, to link AWACS with Russian and western fighters and not 2 different systems like PAF has to do. The French IFF systems also will be used on Russian and western fighters, to interact with all assets and in future this might be even improved with SATCOM features not only for AWACS and drones, but also for FGFA and possibly Rafale upgrades.

 

[sancho]

Good video of Mig29K

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

 

[ejaz007]

Former Indian Air Force Chief Faces Italian Helo Probe

NEW DELHI — Indian police said Monday they would probe a former Indian air force chief and 10 others over a $748 million contract for 12 Italian helicopters amid charges that the deal was won through kickbacks.

A senior police official said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had filed a “preliminary enquiry” report which also links four companies to the alleged scandal.

Former air chief marshal “S.P. Tyagi and his cousins were names mentioned in the report”, the official said, without elaborating.

“If criminality is established, then the next step would be to register a case against the 11 and the four companies,” the police official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The Press Trust of India and India’s Hindustan Times newspaper also said Tyagi, who has strongly denied any wrongdoing, was listed in the CBI report as one of the 11 people to be probed.

India’s Defence Ministry earlier this month said it had “initiated action for cancellation” of the helicopter contract from AgustaWestland, a unit of Italian aerospace group Finmeccanica, intended for use by top Indian politicians.

India on Feb. 14 put payments to the company on hold and asked the Italian firm to reply if any terms of the contract and an “integrity pact” it signed in 2010 had been violated.

Finmeccanica insisted in its response last week to the Indian government that it had acted “correctly” in the deal.

The Italian company’s chief executive was arrested on Feb. 12 in Milan as part of a probe by Italian prosecutors.

The purchase came under scrutiny from Italian investigators looking into allegations the group had broken the law by paying bribes to foreign officials, leading to the arrest of Finmeccanica’s boss Giuseppe Orsi.

Italian prosecutors suspect that kickbacks worth around 10 percent of the deal, or 50 million euros ($68 million), were paid to Indian officials to ensure AgustaWestland won the contract, Italian media reports say.

Cash was allegedly handed to a cousin of the former Indian Air Force chief, with more money funneled via a web of middlemen and companies in London, Switzerland, Tunisia and Mauritius.

Finmeccanica’s Orsi also denies any wrongdoing and his lawyer has called his arrest “unjustified”.

The chopper deal was cleared by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whose Congress-led government has been buffeted by a series of corruption scandals that analysts say could affect the party’s electoral chances in 2014 polls.

AgustaWestland, a wholly owned Anglo-Italian unit of Finmeccanica, was manufacturing the helicopters at its plant in southwest England.


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