Indian MiG-27 crashes, pilot safe

[IND151]

Thank god pilot is safe

 

[Sergi]

Naah....we must have had adequate supply of funds . The fact is there is corruption present in almost every thinkable department in India and in the mid 90's it was massive without much opposition and media pressure .

Exactly in 1991, we were bankrupt. IMF rejected to loan us anymore. Govt of India was forced to open its economy to the world.

That was done by Mr. Sing and Mr. Rao combo. If I am not wrong the first IAF purchase in that decade was late in 1997/98 - Sukhois.

 

[baqai]

as long as the pilot is safe its good enough, machines can be replaced not a good trained pilot

 

[Abingdonboy]

Naah....we must have had adequate supply of funds . The fact is there is corruption present in almost every thinkable department in India and in the mid 90's it was massive without much opposition and media pressure .

Sir it is a fact that the funding from late 80s to early '00s was a trickle for the military. in the early to mid-'90s India was going through a disasterious period economically and it only really recovered in the early '00s and started to spend funds then. The reason the Indian military has to spend such colossal amounts in the near to medium future is that for about 15 years the military was neglected and little was spent on capital acquisitions or upgrades of existing equipment meaning the obsolescence of the Indian military had gotten very high until recently.


Corruption might have been present but it would have played a negligible part. How can anyone make money of non-existent deals/budgetary allowance?!

IAF is going to retire them on the cause of problem in the engine. If the only problem in the engine then why not replace it with some other in the category. We are replacing engines of Jags and M2Ks why not that of 27s ???

There is something fishy about these 27s and IAF don't want anybody to know. ( New theory )

No "fishiness" just the MIG-27s are extremely outdated and their utility beyond 2017 if practically non-existent. Maybe it is because they are Soviet-era a/c but the IAF cleary doesn't see the point in spending funds on keeping this bird going whereas it does in the M2K and some Jags. Maybe to do with the air-worthiness of the MIG-27s nowadays. If the IAF wanted to re-engine the MIG-27s it would've had to do so 4-5 years ago.

 

[kurup]

Reading about a crash after a long time.

Pilot is safe and that is good news.

 

[imperialmen]

Why do the IAF planes keep tumbling down from the sky?

Is our Air Force's standard so low? Poor maintanace or poor piloting or both?

 

[scarcry]

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