http://www.indianexpress.com/iep/printerFriendly/2491.html

With the Russians no longer supplying spares and claiming to have done away with all blueprints, any more reverse engineering by the technicians at the Bareilly airbase is plainly uneconomical.

Wing. Co. Jayapal Patil: “The Russians don’t help us with spares or blueprints.”

WTF is up with that? I can understand the Russians being unable to supply spares because they are no longer manufactured. But I don’t believe the BS that they have also destroyed all their blueprints.

On future deals with them, I hope the GOI uses contract language that ensures a minimum level of product support for as long as India wishes to use the equipment.

When I lived in India in the 80’s, I used to see: MiG-21’s several times a year and AN-12’s almost every day.

Here in Canada, I see CF-18’s fly by my town about twice a year and I see Canadian P-3C’s (Aurora’s) at least once a week.

You lucky dog! :diablo:

I think the PAF has more A2A missiles in their inventory than just the AIM-9P/L. Aren’t their Mirage III’s equipped with the Matra Magic-II missile? And what about added capability to field a wider variety of missiles on the “Rose” upgraded Mirage’s?

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Sealordlawrence: Let’s ignore all the smoke and mirrors being used by both Iran as well as the US camp. Iran, with its fossil fuel reserves will remain self sufficient for its energy requirements for centuries, even while exporting millions of barrels every year. Iran will not need nuclear energy for power generation for a very, very long time. Therefore, one can assume that the only reason Iran is really pursuing nuclear energy is for military purposes. A nuke armed Iran is not in the interests of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE, India and of course neither the US, Israel or Europe.

Not related directly but pretty much in the same vein:

http://www.flightlevel350.com/viewer.php?id=5355

I’m sure there is an interesting story behind this flyby. 😮