Well the answer is simple, all pilots who have logged about the same number of training hours will perform at about the same leve, be it American, indian or Jordanian, of course they need to be put in similar aircraft and have similar advantages.

I thought that we Indians paid 1B for 3, the Koreans pay 1.7 for 4?
yikes

And i cant see why an indian pilot flying a Su-30 with 300 hours per annum of training can’t beat an F-15 pilot.

Hmm the LCA is has a good tarang system, it will also feature many an Israeli systems and God knows what else but to compare anything us SOuth Asians and Chinese have to the more EXPERIENCED western countries is premature, we are a developing country, that means in the process of catching up, aka technologically the Grippen with its mature systems and impressive missile,ecm,radar suite is superior, one must wait for Tranche 2 or 3 of production LCAs and J-10s to see how far along these two countries have come.
Matt, if you think that the Grippen looks sexy externally, check out its cockpit!

“This training programme is part of the contracts worth 795 million pounds (around Rs 6,640 crore), signed in March, for procurement of 24 ‘Hawk-115Y’ AJTs in ‘a flyaway condition’ from British Aerospace Systems and licensed production of 42 more in Bangalore. The ‘Hawks’, incidentally, will begin arriving in India around 35 months from now. “

This is just for our banned Saleem who may still be lurking or about to be reborn over here with a new avatar, the contract has been signed. 🙂

and before I sign off, this is not the first time Vikas and Dragon now is it?
For the last two years, everytime a Pakistani delegation visits a country that manufactures fighters, we see stories like Pak getting F-16s, Mirages, Grippens, Quatar Mirages, the list is endless, none of them happen to be true except for the FC-1, God bless, I am not out of line by saying that the next time all pakistnai PAF fans and others as well should hold off until the news becoes more credible!

The J-10 is the best option, sure it will take a few years to get it, but it is a decent 4th gen fighter, you can get a westernized avionics package and western companies will sell packages rather than airplanes these days, there won’t be a war in the sub continent, take you time and you will end up with a better product aka the J-10 and maybe even licence production!

Hmm but I think that beyound 200-220, its excellent training, after that my opinion is that there is a decreasing marginal return to training. Yes there was a report where Indian Su-30Ks had logged about 300 hours a year and that was a reason given for engine overhaul in an Indian news paper. Make no mistake though, the USAF would beat the IAF with force multipliers, that is where their real strength lies and there is nothing wrong with it, its not like there is that much of a difference in US pilots to Indian pilots anyway, all well trained airforces are equal in my opinion, its the force multipliers that win the war though.

First off, as far as your third world countries commnet, mate India had Su-30Ks not MKIs by them way involved in the exercises and third world or not, a Su-30K can stand up to an F-15, even a Bison can. What you must understand is that the real strength of the USAF is in its AWACS and other force multipliers, as far as training goes, India logs more than 220 hours per year in its fighters just like the US, so without the force multipliers it is a fair battle. Pilot wise any airforce that has 200+ hours of training is a good AF and without force multipliers, well it won’t be easy. India is not flying Mirage 3s and MiG19s either.