i have seen a few post here and have talked in detail with an IAF Squad leaders who flies these jeta a few things he siad was all that i could remmber
1.as of now there is nothing in this theater which can hold its ground against MKI even with its massive RCS cause it can very easli track and engage almost half squad of pakistani F16s (as they have some very serous handicaps to use its full potential in its radar and EW suits while MKI has none of those types )
2. each MKI can carry 10 BVRs + 2 WVR and wont need any external feul even if it takes of from as far as gwalior to engage a pakistani squad based in sarghoda
3. as of now every MKI is fully capable to carrie a single bhramos + 6 BVRs + 2 WVRs in a single deep strike sortie
4. MKI has jammers that can litrelli blind pakistan latest 3 X F16s radars single handedlli
and there aremany other techs that are not relevent to talk here MKI like all wepons is in a constant evolution phase at least since last 6 years and not even chinese sukhoies want to engage indian MKI (remmeber litrelli MKIs PESA is the best PESA owtside russia and maybe in the world & its EW suite & jammers are in a class of there own)
theoritakalli speaking IAF needs onli 3 squads of MKIs to engage and defeate whole PAF and there are many pakistanies here who belave that PAF "can use AWACS against MKI " and that there AWACS "can guide there BVRs" well they are in for a very very brute shock if they ever try this on real battlefield
baki lage raho
I also spoke to a few pilots who fly the MKI and they told me that IAF actually needs only 3 MKIs to defeat the entire PAF, 2 were meant for actual combat whereas the 3rd was to serve as a backup when one of the MKIs required servicing.
Oh wait......that was in the dreams of our Indian Members!!
1) Servicing and Sorties: In real life, only about 50% of the entire MKI fleet is air worthy at any given time, MKIs require intensive servicing after sorties and when push comes to shove the IAF will feel this. Not just that, the spares for MKIs are a nuisance and Russia has proved to be a pain in the *** when it comes to supplies.
2) Russian ECM/ECCM/Jammers: The Russian electronic jamming and counter jamming or their electronic counter/counter-counter measures were severely tested and put to shame when Russia itself was engaged in a war with Georgia.....and it was using it's 'A' grade equipment then, not the 'B' grade equipment that Russia is known to transfer outside Russia. Despite all that, it was unable to supress Georgian 'Russian supplied' Air Defense systems!!
3) Russian Missiles: Russian BVRs have abysmal record and their effectiveness is already 50% as per IAF doctrine (of Russian origin) of a salvo of missiles in BVR engagement. On the contrary, the AMRAAMs have a superb combat record even when fired singular. Even when we compare WVR missiles, the performance of Russian missiles is effective against Russian equipment only and their track record against ECM/ECCM armed European/American Jets is highly questionable.
4) BARS Radar: So much has been said about the BARS radar that a layman would want to arm an AWEACS with A2A missiles and let it serve as a air superiority Jet, I mean they carry radars a whole lot more powerful then any MKI can. However, only a layman would do that, there are many features of an AIM-120C and SD-10B that are not 'disclosed' to countries who are not buying them and there are many features that are known. Both of the missiles have something in common though, it is their ability to home in to active air jamming as preferred target instead of an illuminated target when the illuminated target 'vanishes' behind active jamming!! Is it a surprise then that this missile is so darned effective? The BARS radar, as so touted by Indians as the equivalent of GOD mode in the air, could potentially be a massive beacon for the AMRAAMs to home in to!
If only the MKI was anything close to what Indians thought of it, there wouldn't really be any need for a MMRCA/Rafael........after all the BARS should be sufficient to make mince meat of any and all PAF/PLAAF Jets!!
