It is a fin less MiG-21 centre-line drop tank.

Nope, too big to be a MiG-21 center-line drop tank. More likely to be a F-16 drop tank as seen here on a PAF F-16. Also fin-less.

This has got to be the most idiotic post on this subject to date. So apparently they beat him because he had a beard, and at no point did the Pakistani flag on his flight suite, or him telling the villagers he his PAF, occur?

And you have pictures of the PAF pilots who flew the strike mission to prove that they wore patches to show their nation’s identity? Wing Cmdr Abhinandan’s flight suit was without any patches to show his nation, his squadron, his qualifications..just one, that was his officer’s patch with his name.

I would fully expect that the PAF pilots also wore no national markings on their flight suit, in case of an ejection over hostile territory.

So some PoK resident interviews another PoK who was involved in the capture of Wing Cmdr Abhinandan, and his version doesn’t suit you, so you call it out as idiotic. So, all those people who reported seeing a second pilot were just lying and this gent, who claims that he even put up a big fight and was beaten up, was lying.

Like in Wing Cmdr Abhinandan’s case, the pilot may have simply not known which side he had fallen on. And like Wing Cmdr Abhi, he may have asked which side this was, and may have been told (just as in Wing Cmdr Abhi’s case) that this was INDIA..and he may have tried to put up a fight, leading to stones being thrown at him and then was beaten up badly, as that old man said. He even had blood on his dress from the pilot.

From Shiv Aroor’s Twitter. 4th Pakistani drone shot down since the Balakot strike. 1 of which was by a Su-30MKI, 1 by a SpyDer battery and the rest by Air Defence guns.

BREAKING: Pakistani unmanned surveillance drone intrudes in Rajasthan’s Ganganagar sector at 7.30pm, shot down by Indian Army air defence guns in the area. (Fourth Pak drone to be shot down since Feb 26.)

Pakistani drone shot down in Rajasthan’s SriGanganagar. Fourth since Balakot strike

HAL ramps up LCA production and looks to Mk2

A few inaccuracies in the article, such as the fact that 14 IOC fighters have been delivered to the IAF, not 16 and the radar for the Mk1A is supplied by Elta and not Elbit. Plus, the refueling probe is part of the FOC LCA Mk1 itself and will be retrofitted to the IOC LCA Mk1s already delivered. It is not only going to be on the Mk1A.

Government-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) will deliver 16 Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) in the final operational clearance (FOC) configuration to the Indian Air Force (IAF) by the end of this year, said HAL chairman R. Madhavan. He added that 16 LCAs have been delivered in the Initial Operation Clearance (IOC) configuration already. An additional eight are being produced as trainers.

The LCA received its FOC last month during the Aero India show in Bangalore, for induction into the Indian Air Force as a fully weaponized fighter. Following the major Vayu Shakti Air Force exercise in February, the Chief of the IAF, Air Marshal B.S. Dhanoa, reported, “It is a fighter jet and behaved like a fighter. It did well both in air-to-air combat, as well as air-to-ground combat.”

HAL has been waiting for the past six months to receive an order from the IAF for 83 LCA Mk1As to enable it to expand its production capacity. The version will have line-replaceable units (LRU) for ease of maintenance, and enhancements that include an Elbit radar and Cobham probe for in-flight refueling. The number of single-seaters and two-seater trainers has not yet been specified. It will take three years for the first flight from the time of signing the contract, Madhavan said. While HAL’s technical bids have been evaluated, the commercial bids have yet to be opened. Following a price negotiation, a formal contract will be signed with HAL. Madhavan noted that with HAL now involved only in integration, and production of components out-sourced to private companies, it was likely that production would speed up the in future.

“After that [Mk1A], we should take up LCA Mk2…which in the long term would replace the Jaguar, the Mirage, and MiG-29s,” said Dhanoa. The Mk2—a medium-weight fighter version of the supersonic LCA with a maximum all-up weight of 17.5 tonnes, a delta wing, and close-coupled canard, and a payload of 6.5 tonnes—will be powered by a General Electric F414 engine with advanced digital control. It will have an advanced sensor suite and be capable of firing beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missiles beyond 100 km (62 miles). The addition of an infrared search and track system will allow the fighter to track aircraft through their heat signature.

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