PAF is woefully short on front line fighters and lack of ESA or AESA based jamming on any front line or support fighters is a very big weakness somebody here was saying they could take on a Rafale with a old F7 well you could theoretically but even with a squadron of F-7 its practically suicide there is a limit to what a pilot can do and this kind of thinking is moronic and suicidal nothing heroic about it you live to fight another day going against a far superior adversary and getting wasted is no bravado instead capacity building is required and a proper and focussed Defence Acquisition Plan is required which should result in a proper Jets being fielded however costly they are.
They ThinK That In Age Of high off boresight IRCCM missiles With HMDS They Will Have chance In Vintage Aerial Dogfights
India Has Mix of HOBS CCM
- R-73E
- Python-5
- MICA RF/IR
- ASRAAM
150 block 52S AT LEAST with 50 top end twin engined euro canard or su35/j11
IAF Always Has Policy To Maintain 3:1 Ratio Over PAF With Indian Budget Sour Up to 80-90 Billion $ By 2020
Against 150 F-16 India Will Produce over 400 MKI's +US MII F-16/F-18/F-35 or Rafale
India Also Has Naval Air Arm Since India Will Planning of 4 AC's It Will Raise Its Naval arm to 250-300 Fighters In coming Decade
am sure IAF isn't incompetent as you state it is, did it completely forget all about China?.
Before you go on any further PAF has both AIM-9 and PL-9, which both are IRCCMs.
As well as AIM-120 a highly successful BVR missile, PAF's F-16s incorporate HMD, which will become a standard for JF-17s too.
Any who, the punch line is that the statement by the Chief is in regards to battle readiness and professionalism of the PAF. Maybe something similar can be said about the MKI's had they ever reached the peak of their battle readiness.
No they are Not There is No HOBS High Off-Boresight IRCCM in PAF Service With HMDS Presently
Most Of your Fighters Has HUD Including JF-17 (Planned for BLk 3)
Only Fighter has HMDS Like JHMCS (joint helmet-mounted cueing system) is F-16 Blk 52 But There is No HOBS Like Advanced Aim-9x block 3 In Service
Aim-120 you have is old C version with Active Seeker No Infra-red homing versions Either
NO Passive IRST Sensor Either In any of your fighters
Ask you Experts Mate For Guidance
For your Intellectual reading Please Look at Source below What is HOBS (High Off-Boresight) CCM Stand For.
https://theaviationist.com/tag/high-off-boresight/
Can you please provide the source of your information about India having 1000 Brahmos cruise missiles in service?
The Exact numbers would be over 3000+ Missiles
Indian Army
The Brahmos Block I was inducted into the army on 21 June 2007.
[30] The Brahmos has been inducted in three regiments of the Indian Army.
[112] The army has raised one regiment (numbered 861) of the Mark I and two missile regiments of the BrahMos Mark II, numbered 862 and 863. The first regiment with five mobile launcher cost $83 million to set up.
[113] Each of the two new regiments would have between four and six batteries of three to four Mobile Autonomous Launchers (72 missiles per regiment) that can be connected to a mobile command post.
[51][114] All these regiments will be part of the army's existing 40th and 41st Artillery Divisions. The operational BrahMos regiments are:
[11][115]
- 861 Regiment (BrahMos Block I, deployed in north Rajasthan area)
- 862 Regiment (BrahMos Block II, deployed in south Rajasthan area)
- 863 Regiment (BrahMos Block II)
- 864 Regiment (BrahMos Block III, ordered for Arunachal Pradesh area)
Indian Navy
By April 2013, Brahmos has been inducted in eight warships of the Indian Navy.
[25] The following ship classes of the navy are equipped with BrahMos:
Submarine-launched
- Submarine-launched, anti-ship variant – Tested successfully for the first time from a submerged pontoon on 20 March 2013
This is the first time I am hearing of Indian navy planning to have 4 standing aircraft carriers in service; do you have a reputable source from where you got this information?
India Already Has TWo carrier in Service
There 2-3 vikrant Class AC already in Advanced constrution Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikrant-class_aircraft_carrier
One Nuclear Powered AC with Emails With US Is Planned
http://atimes.com/2016/02/americas-master-plan-to-turn-india-into-an-aircraft-carrier-superpower/
Recently
Russia Offers India Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Technology
http://www.defensenews.com/story/de...ndia-nuclear-aircraft-carrier-storm/86937106/
First of all I asked for reputable source and I think you know fully well that a wikipedia page is not a reputable source.
Secondly, none of the links you have presented mention any number of deployed Brahmos, so your assumption that there are more than 3000 Brahmos deployed is without any merit.
About my second question asking for a source about India planning to have 4 standing aircraft carriers, none of the links you presented relate to my question. I know currently India is working on indigenous aircraft carriers but these aircraft carriers are supposed to be commissioned while retiring older aircraft carriers, so I don't think India will have 4 standing carriers at any time, at least not in planning so far.
About the two carriers in service in the Indian navy that you mentioned, one is way past it's useful operational life (INS VIraat) and Indian navy is planning to decommission it in 2016 or 2017.
India already building 2 carriers
Vikrant class
IAC-1 vikrant who will
Substitute the retired carrier commission by 2018
IAC-2 INS Vishal is already layed down by CSL shipyard it will be also a vikrant class carrier it would will be commissioned by 2024
Pictures are on Google reputable source
Wikipedia is just collection of sources and references
It used as best first hand source of information by experts even on PDF
American nuclear powered CATOBAR carrier will be layed in around 2020-21 and will be commissioned in 2027
India also started construction to have 6 SSN
And 6 SSBN
For further information go to PDF Indian Navy thread
Brahmos already deployed in Army since 2007
There 72 missile's per block 1 regiment
144 in block 2 missiles per regiment
Block 3 216 missiles per regiment
PS:Start a thread to clear you quarries about AC and Brahmos
Wikipedia is not taken as a credible source anywhere in the world as any person with a computer and an internet connection can write whatever they like on it, so please spare me with these Wikipedia links.
Also, if you don't have an answer to very specific questions that I asked, you don't have to throw around links and other information that doesn't answer my questions. I know sometimes when egos are involved, we do irrational things but it's not a contest.
Anyways, so far Indian navy has no plans of having 4 standing carriers as you mentioned, so please don't spread false news.
You either to dum or playing
You cannot post anything on wikipedia without authentic references and they are quoted with each lines and you have verify
It with authentic source
Should I post you threads where PDF mods are quoted wiki sources
Fake news construction of INS vikrant &Vishal is also in CSL also pictures fake
Either You to dumb or playing it
Google it your self
Here full layed down INS vikrant aka IAC-1
Next time Google it youself
I have specifically quoted your information where you said India is going to have 4 aircraft carriers and I asked for a reliable source. You are giving me Wikipedia sources and these sources in itself doesn't say anywhere that India is planning to have 4 standing aircraft carriers in navy anywhere, so either you have a problem understanding English or you are just too retard to understand. Stop calling others dumb (try to learn English first) and increase your knowledge first. I don't need any pictures of your shipyards churning out junk, we are already seeing your junk Tejas for the last 30 years.
I plan on reporting you if you don't stop you rabid charade here.
I already reported you
Child you are exposed by you immature response
Already posted pictures picture
Of full scaled IAC-1 from CSL
As for junk its from Indian shipyard it better from your PN or whatever that small entity you call
As for you others rants
It's typical Fanboyish response
You are on my marked list on PDF
And I will haunt you
With you pathetic knowledge of military and technology
Makes you perfect candidate for being banned in few weeks
As far LCA its has capibilty fire High off bore sight CCM with HMDs
Capibilty no PAF fighters have till now
Considering WMD-7 in IRST mode, not much details are given.
To qualify in IRST function, it has IR targeting upto 20km. Although using laser designation can make the aircraft detectable, the range is even lesser, 15km. It does have vid cams for zooming and higher resolutions.
Sniper Pod carried by PAF F-16's can use its IRST function in A2A combat.
Im unsure if A2A missiles need to be integrated with WMD-7 or the integration of all weapon(A2G/A2A) suite of JF-17 is automatically configured with WMD-7.
It has no comparison and the passive IRST sensors like OLS
Pirate or OSF