Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Elbit sign licence production agreement for HMDS and HMS. Perhaps could also be extended for the DASH (for Tejas fleet) and Targo HMDS (for the Rafale fleet) and possible retrofits for most IAF fighters. Right now it is for HMS for the Light Combat Helicopter and Rudra gunship fleet.

India’s BEL signs licence production deal with Elbit for HMDS and HMS

India’s Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) announced on 5 March the signing of an agreement with Israeli company Elbit Systems to produce helmet-mounted display systems and helmet-pointing systems for the Indian market.

BEL said through the new technical collaboration agreement (TCA) it will licence-manufacture and integrate the Elbit-designed systems onto rotary-wing platforms in operation with the Indian armed forces. The company added that the TCA was agreed by the two at the 2019 Aero India exhibition in Bangalore.

The TCA expands already strong ties between the two companies, with much of the collaboration geared towards meeting Elbit Systems’ defence offset obligations within India.

One interesting data point that emerged from Wing Commander Kaduskar’s interview- he has flown “more than 2000 hours” over “almost” 14 years on a Su-30MKI. That works out to ~142 hours per year on the jet, but given that we don’t know how much more than 2000 hours and how many months lesser than 14 years, it is probably in the 160 hours per year range. Some other Su-30MKI pilots have logged over 180 hours per year. I suppose if a pilot goes on to take some courses that may impact the time they get in the air?

Force India story- link

While Wg Cdr Kadushkar has always exclusively flown the Su-30MKI, he expressed his interest in flying any new aircraft that would reach the IAF’s hangars soon. With more than 2,000 flight hours logged in, the Wg Cdr said that he began flying only two years into his service and has been flying the Su-30 platform for almost 14 years.

There is no bias as you suggest.

Then why were 2 separate Indian Air Force and Tejas threads deleted or moved instead of removing or banning the persons who derailed these threads??

there is this one poster Mags76 who joined in January of this year and has already done nothing but bring back the acrimony between Indian and Pakistani posters. Civility was shown the door and mods have instead resorted to making very valuable threads disappear. A shame.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/2019030…pilot-lynched/ “N

ot only was a Pakistani F-16 allegedly shot down in a dogfight with Indian jets on Wednesday, but the pilot, Shahaz-ud-Din, was reportedly killed after successfully bailing out from the doomed aircraft, the newspaper Firstpost reported, citing London-based lawyer Khalid Umar”

“The lawyer, who says that he obtained the information from the pilot’s family, claims that Shahaz-ud-Din was mistaken by locals in the Pakistani Nowshera sector as a pilot from a downed Indian jet and was subsequently lynched by a mob. According to Umar, the Pakistani pilot was eventually rescued by the Pakistani Army, but later died from the injuries he sustained in the assault.”

Before I get bashed for bringing up sputnik as a source and people start shouting no no there was no F-16. Is this Pakistani pilot a legitimate pilot and did this **** really happen(him getting lynched)? If this did happen than RIP for the pilot 🙁 .

Found this on Quora, ”

Most intersting point is Wing Commander Varthaman’s father, S Varthaman, as Air Marshal , Shahaz-ud-Din’s father, Waseem-ud-Din, is also an Air Marshal of the Pakistan Air Force, who has flown F-16.”

His father has flown an F-16…..Is there any information to what aircrafts he has flown?

https://qr.ae/TWXRqp Did Khalid Umar really post on FB that he was the pilot of the F-16? http://www.uniindia.com/news/india/can-reality-be-so-strange-fb-post-claims-f-16-pakistani-pilot-was-killed-by-local-mob/1515947.html

Don’t believe that this will ever be corroborated by official sources. The Pakistani lawyer that revealed this mentioned that the pilot’s family gave the info. But the very fact that they haven’t tried to disprove this claim tells a lot, given how eager they were to try to disprove any other claims.

JF-17 most likely took out the MiG-21 BiSON (Probably with a PL-5II). Question is, what happened to the F-16. Did the MiG-21 BiSON take out the F-16 before it was hit?

Wait for a few days. Once Wing Cmdr Abhinandan is debriefed we’ll know better. He’s the only person who knows exactly what happened apart from the deceased PAF pilot.

Please keep this thread to just being about news! Discuss elsewhere.

Basically from what I can see, the only confirmed and verified shoot down is that of an IAF Mig-21 with the pilot in Pakistan custody.

The additional PAF claim of 1 other IAF fighter jet downed has yet to be confirmed (and may have been retracted?), and the IAF claim of 1 PAF fighter downed has yet to be confirmed as well.

The Mi-17 loss is most likely a crash at this stage but the situation is evolving.

I think that’s more or less the situation so far?

The facts are these:

IAF claimed 1 loss and 1 PAF jet shot down – basically 2 pilots downed
PAF claimed 0 losses and 2 IAF jets shot down – basically 2 pilots downed

A few hours later

IAF claimed 1 loss and 1 PAF jet shot down – basically 2 pilots downed
PAF claimed 0 losses and 1 IAF jet shot down- basically 1 pilot downed

Basically, the Pakistani DG ISPR said that 2 pilots were downed, 1 admitted to a military hospital and the other in custody. And then poof! The pilot admitted to hospital is no longer referred to. He just vanished into thin air.

What most likely happened is that the pilot that ejected out of the PAF jet was injured badly and admitted to hospital. Upon realising that revealing this particular pilot’s identity would reveal that he was Pakistani and not Indian, the IAF’s claim of having shot down a PAF jet will be proven.

And so lo and behold, the Pakistani DG ISPR’s statement conveniently changed to 1 jet shot down and 1 pilot in custody.