What's the purpose of IAF's Drill

[Smriti95]

Look at you, first you deny it and now you are praising it.... desperation of another level.
As for pilots dying, it's well proven fact that IAF pilots eject at the first sign of emergency without any attempt to try and save the aircraft or the built up areas.....more over unlike PAF, most of IAF jets are twin engine machines but even then both your SU-30s and Jaguars have much higher crash rate than say the F-16s....in fact the Indian pilots have managed to crash equivalent of three squadrons of Jaguars....but hey at least they managed to stop the wheels from bursting.

You do realize more comfortable vilians died on ground in PAF crashes than in IAF crashes.
BTW PAF crashes over 70 Mirages whereas only 46 IAF jaguars crashed.

 

[Windjammer]

You do realize more comfortable vilians died on ground in PAF crashes than in IAF crashes.
BTW PAF crashes over 70 Mirages whereas only 46 IAF jaguars crashed.

PAF Mirages (Single engine) started operations 12 years before Jaguars (Twin engine) were inducted in the IAF....more over Mirages have fought in 1971 war with several victories and unlike the Jaguars, many Mirages acquired by the PAF were refurbished and even decommissioned machines,
You also need to catch up on your figures as the Jaguar attrition stands at around 55 aircraft .

 

[Signalian]

If a plane were to stop, taxi back to the runway, and takeoff again during this practice, it would take a lot of time and may cause congestion on the taxiways.
Secondly, its cheaper to do a touch and go, than a full stop landing, saving fuel costs. If you do a full stop landing, you have to taxi all the way back to the other end of the runway, wait for clearance/ a gap in traffic at uncontrolled fields, then take off.

 

[Smriti95]

PAF Mirages (Single engine) started operations 12 years before Jaguars (Twin engine) were inducted in the IAF....more over Mirages have fought in 1971 war with several victories and unlike the Jaguars, many Mirages acquired by the PAF were refurbished and even decommissioned machines,
You also need to catch up on your figures as the Jaguar attrition stands at around 55 aircraft .

12 years is a negligible difference.
All three Scramble nl, Aviation Safety, Ejection history say Jaguar crashes in IAF around 46.

 

[untitled]

Maybe the road was tollway and the IAF wanted to avoid paying the toll

 

[Taimoor Khan]

Yes among all other flip flops, there was also one with a stray dog racing with an MKI.

The secret has been exposed by your Netas....it's 0.5 of the 2.5 front war.

HAHAHAHA Brilliant!!!



Imagine if India lost a plane due to "Dog hit" .

 

[Windjammer]

HAHAHAHA Brilliant!!!



Imagine if India lost a plane due to "Dog hit" .

Would give a whole new meaning to the aerial combat term...'Dog Fight'.

 

[Viny]

Ironically, when the PAF first landed it's aircraft on Motorway back in 2005, the IAF high command with a wry smile commented....''No big deal, the Swiss and Swedish air forces have been doing this for a long time''.....yet a decades later the IAF has felt the need for it but still practicing touch and go.

Well all of sudden IAF realized, where would they land there planes in Pakistan after the war? Given that all the airstrips will be taken care off....they need to land the planes somewhere and as pakistan has already created some good roads, so they are trying to learn how to land on those roads in pakistan after the war. Hence no training of refuel, reload and take off ...I hope this makes some sense now

 

[deep_blue]

When you have a sardar g as Airforce chief such stupid things really happen .

IAF realized where would they land there plans after war and the IAF quickly arranged an exercise where they practiced highway landing without landing any aircraft.
Pakistan has created some good roads but IAF still lacks good pilots.
By the way our pilots can land planes on mortorways and India seems to have some good roads too...
Makes some sence na????
Oh and by the way look where a c130 can land

Well all of sudden IAF realized, where would they land there planes in Pakistan after the war? Given that all the airstrips will be taken care off....they need to land the planes somewhere and as pakistan has already created some good roads, so they are trying to learn how to land on those roads in pakistan after the war. Hence no training of refuel, reload and take off ...I hope this makes some sense now

 

[gambit]

The US interstate system was never intended for use in wartime despite what many believes even to this day. There are two reasons for this:

- The US is a geographically large country.
- The high unlikelihood of an invasion by a foreign military due to the protection made by the two great oceans: Atlantic and Pacific.

This points out why some countries feels the need to incorporate their civilian transportation infrastructures as contributors to a wartime effort: hostile neighbor(s).

It is not that difficult to see why. On continental Europe, countries abuts each other. This is favorable for land crossings by armies. Dedicated air bases are vulnerable to first and surprise strike attacks. Using the country's transportation infrastructures makes sense.