rockstarIN
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What i meant that even though IAF sights future to be the building block of its procurment startegy, it is not willing to let go the past. What i mean is that when it considers MKI to be a multirole platform, it is not willing to let go the now older Mig-29s,Mir-2000s, Jaguars. This leaves the IAF with 7 to 8 combat platforms, thats too scrambbled a fleet to operate and logically maintain.
Thats what I said, thats the mistake of last decade not to plan in advance. Had they planned well in 1985-99, we would have been in a better position today. If we plan well today, we will be in very good position in the next decade. And all these Jaguars & Mig-27s & Mig-21s will retire soon in this decade and there will be multi role platforms in IAF for future. And about Mig-29 upgrade, it is just a gap filler (cheap too) till the MMRCA comes. And about M2k, IAF loves that plane, though expensive upgrade. They have thousands of hours experience in Mig-29 & M2k, so why should we waste it. Apart from jets, training too is costly which is around Rs-110 million per pilot in 2002.