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April 19, 2006 at 1:32 pm in reply to: This is the Su-35 #2591211

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Twin-seat aircraft are only really preferred for strike missions where a second pilot is useful for target designation and whatnot. For an air defense aircraft ,especially given the sophistication and automation of modern electronics, you’re fine with one pilot.

For Air to Air fighters that depends on what type of mission is being flown….If we go by what you are saying then the US Navy wasted A LOT of money on the F-14 business and the Indian Airforce must be bonkers to go for the Su-30MKI.

having said that….. yes… when it comes to dogfighters they would definitely not like to have the GIB and put up with his (or her) back seat driving

April 19, 2006 at 8:14 am in reply to: F-7PG v/s MiG-21bisON #2591476

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Are you sure?

24 minutes extra cruise at height with 1.000l would mean a fuel flow of 42l/min. That is 2500l/h = 2025kg/h.
For a typical M0.9@30.000ft SFC of 1 kg/(daN*h) it means 2025daN (=~4500lb) of thrust. A rather bad lift over ratio ratio of 3 or 4.

The IAF MiG-21’s seem to use only 600ltr tanks….We have never seen any pics with the 1000ltr tanks

April 18, 2006 at 1:27 pm in reply to: India to retire MiG-25 (for real) / Trisonics already gone #2591997

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wow ! what a climbdown for Wing Cmdr Manish Khanna ! after commanding a Foxbat squadron, he’l be commanding a Bison squadron..I wonder how he feels about the difference between the 2 jets.

He must be delighted to move from a Tata Truck to a nippy Honda City :p :p :p

So the MiG-25s have retired ??? Hmmm…just like the retired Canberra we saw at Aero India 2005!!!

April 10, 2006 at 8:07 am in reply to: The Indian MMRCA Saga #2599072

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Good tactic.
However, such a tactic may also tempt US of A to link purchaing of F-16/F-18 with the clearing of nuclear deal. This would leave some other rather unhappy contenders, which might have to be appeased through similar lucrative deals.

Quite but I think the IAF is upto this…..

Get those additional 20 m2000-5’s and upgrade the rest of the M2000’s to -5 standard so they have the upgraded mirages they also wanted….

AND

Get additional MMRCAs be it Super Hornets, Vipers or even Rafales and Typhoons….

For all we know,with the upgraded mirages in their pocket they could even go for the MiG-35s should things go sour with the USA

January 25, 2006 at 12:30 pm in reply to: Should the Indian Airforce go for the Mig-31 ? #2601328

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The other way to look at this is what is that the Mig-31 does have which the MKI dosent , perhaps supercruise capability & ceiling ie flying at extreme altitudes ???

The Anti-AWACS capability of the MKI will be boosted with the inclusion of KS-172 , Add to that the maintainance burden of a new type in the IAF .

The M-55 seems to be a better bet if we ressurect the project , If we can develop an Unmanned variant of the M-55 or something similar.

As you pointed out…Yes….Supercruise and High altitude capability..
The IAF chief has said he is not worried about maintaining a mixed fleet (ref to the MMRCA requirement)

The MiG-31 is a very potent interceptor…the MKI are multirole platform….

January 25, 2006 at 12:24 pm in reply to: Indian Naval MiG-29K v/s Cinese Su-30MKK2 #2601329

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Please let us steer back to the original Topic of the Thread….

January 24, 2006 at 6:01 am in reply to: SU-30 MKK2 AWACS POD #2601814

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Is than a Litening on an Indian MKI

Hi,the Indian Su-30MKI used Litening pod from IAI

Hi,

In the attcahed pic is that a Litening pod on an India MKI ??? Can you attach a larger pic and leave out the cropping ?

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January 21, 2006 at 10:39 am in reply to: Indian Naval MiG-29K v/s Cinese Su-30MKK2 #2603031

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What are the specs for both the A/C ?

I am not sure about the MiG-29K. But here is a very possible scenario.

The Su-30MKK2 are with the Chinese Naval Aviation and could be tasked to take out an Indian Naval Battlegroup consisting of the Vikramaditya nad the MiG-29K would fly a BARCAP type mission…Can we please go back to my question ????

BTW I am tabulating specs for the to right now and put them up shortly here…..

June 25, 2005 at 1:36 pm in reply to: What Fighter is the Flying Leopard ??? #2625596

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This is JH-7 Flying Leopard…

Thanks mate…Wonder what they are doing with this bird for naval strike missions when they already have the MKK for doing the same …..

June 25, 2005 at 1:34 pm in reply to: What Fighter is the Flying Leopard ??? #2625599

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nooo the flying leopard is a circus cat that gets fired out of a canon ball! dont you people know anything?

Geeks i tell you.

Matt tu Aviation ki sari bate apni ma ke pet me sikh ke bahar aya tha kya ???

June 25, 2005 at 1:29 pm in reply to: Pakistan Air Force #2625604

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My God….when does it stop?

The friggin’ PAF doesn’t have a BVR weapon, and they won’t get one until the JF-17 enters service!

There are rumours they use the South African Darter Radar Guided Missile on their mirages

June 25, 2005 at 1:24 pm in reply to: Mirage 2000-5 Question (and pics) #2625607

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InAF Mirage 2000s use the LITENING II LDP.

Nope they use the Atlis II, I have seen the mirage at Displays with Atlis II not Litening. IAF Jaguars and MiG-27s do carry the Litening however…

May 3, 2005 at 11:33 am in reply to: MiG-23/MiG-27 #2608273

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What are the advantages of Mig-27 over Jaguars with Indian Air Force??

Its a much more newer aircraft than the Jaguar. More agile and nimble than the Jag and in the words of a IAF MiG-27 pilot…”At low level with wings swept back, nothing in the world can catch it…”

April 27, 2005 at 11:29 am in reply to: MiG-29s for Admiral Gorshkov to start arriving this year #2611054

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The camo sucks… Mig29K does not look good in this pic (illustration), though that does not have to do anything with performance. I was looking at Rafale pics… man, it just made it worse.

You ought to see the Sea Harrier Camo Color, upclose and from a distance, to appreciate its effectiveness. The Mig-29K has a similar color scheme..and is very effective…

April 26, 2005 at 9:21 am in reply to: MiG-29s for Admiral Gorshkov to start arriving this year #2611554

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the camo is likely to what the current IN SHARS used to wear ……one pic in here, originally posted by Himanshu in the Indian Navy news & discussion thread

Agreed….

If they re arriving by the end of this year it also means that the airframe will be almost the same as the original MiG-29K and not a totally revamped one (Strenghtened structure…better engines etc.) as I thought earlier. That Camo jpg is superb..Good one Himanshu….
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