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You'll have to do more than this to convince a lot of the international press Vishnu.Hi folks ... Just so everyone is clear here ... I stand by my article 100 % ... I accept that there are sensitivities and yes, I was able to access more on-the-record information than many in the UK or perhaps even in some quarters of the IAF would have liked - but the information stands. This isn't to suggest that the Typhoon is not a great weapon. In a real combat situation, its AESA-Meteor combo may have been superior to what the MKI has presently certainly in some flight regimes ... as always, it all boils down to the skill of fighter-controllers, the pilots and of course the platform.
Also ... just so that everyone is clear, the scenarios were mutually decided ... its not as if the IAF designed the engagement scenarios all by itself. The people I spoke to are not lying.
Vishnu Som ,
ND TV journalist who wrote the first article on the Typhoon Vs Su-30MKI
@gambit @C130 @AMDR @Peter C @LeveragedBuyout @F-22Raptor @oldman
Is this man a false flagger, or has visceral hatred for Hindus gone mainstream in USA?
The most 99% of people know about Hinduism is that it involves a bindi on your forehead and vegetarianism. Other than that it's all a complete blank. So it's impossible to hate something you know completely nothing about. You may as well ask the typical person in America/India about Shintoism...you'd get the same clueless look as a response.
The most 99% of people know about Hinduism is that it involves a bindi on your forehead and vegetarianism. Other than that it's all a complete blank. So it's impossible to hate something you know completely nothing about. You may as well ask the typical person in America/India about Shintoism...you'd get the same clueless look as a response.
BOYS REDUCE THE TENSION..
Too many pakistanis getting agitated at the indian confidence in their prime fighter the stunning SU30MKI
likewise
LETS be REALISTIC my indian friends the TYPHOON is the second best fighter in the world bar F22 potentially so those 12 nil score lines are wrong.
DACT excercises are scaled down to avoid givining away too much.
THE TRUTH is the middle
SU30MKI is not a sitting duck as a pakistani would like to believe to make them sleep at night. just on RCS issue
ITS ALSO not the best in the world either.
The Reality is the su30mki
is the best fighter in South Asian skies
the most numerous at nearly 250 planes
And makes the IAF one of the best equipped air powers in the world
finally the impressive professionalism and ability to DACT overseas with the world class RAF shows us that the indian airforce is amongest the best trained and oganised air powers in the world
Indians should be proud of their
Flankers
C17 globemasters
pilots
para special forces
C130 TRANSPORTS
WHO TOOK PART IN INDRAHANUSH 2015
Can you please change your flag to an Indian one, or at least have an Indian flag in there to ID yourself as a British Indian.
trolls like him are a disgrace to my country.
SU30MKI is not a sitting duck as a pakistani would like to believe to make them sleep at night. just on RCS issue
Yaar; he is just a wannabe Amreekan. He is in fact the erstwhile @Orangzaib; he just thought to change his avatar to disguise himself... one will try to hide one's stupidity in some way or the other, nah ?
@Ryuzaki , this who that guy is really. Benaqab bh toh hona padhta hai kabhi !
There is a lot of fanboy news on different places. But the actual negotiations are taking place for 24 jets ONLY. And that also, as a barter deal to let China control one of the most strategic oil refineries inside Iran for the next 2 decades.
Outside of the cost of these jets, the Chinese are extending similar duration parts and warranty services for this jet, going out to 2 decades as its a mutual trade / barter type of a deal. This number may or may not reach even 100, let alone 150.
They'll test drive the 24 jets and have something immediately available to strengthen their air-defense. This is also an attempt of put pressure on the West or the Russians in terms of "realignment" of Iran's future interests with the Chinese. They also plan on using tech from J-10B into their own jets they built (copy of F-5).
In the meantime, they'll evaluate their relationships with others (including the US) and if I was to guesstimate, they'll end up acquiring commercial planes from Boeing and more modern fighter jets from France (Rafale probably).
Remember, the French were really the last one to resist sanctions on Iran as they had serious oil based interest in the country. So the Iranians consider them less of an issue than the US at this point. Ideally, the Iranians would like to retire their F-14's and actually upgrade to F-18's or the Russian SU's. But this might be dropped in favor of the French Rafale long term.