I don’t believe that the pictures themselves prove that US F-15s necessarily fired AMRAAMs during the exercise. Cope India lasted 12-13 days; on which of those days were the main exercise, and on which day was that picture taken?

You’re right, the USAF didn’t fire the AMRAAM… neither did the IAF fire its R-77. You see, there’s something called simulation and acquisition rounds and ACMI.

Of course not, but do you think that India’s simulated AWACS is as good as the US’s? And how well would they do if gloves came off in a 1:1 fight?

That’s why it’s called CopeEx… as in Coperative exercise, not Coperative War

PAF Fanatic, stick to the PAF!

Out of the Bisons, Su-30Ks, and the Mig-29S in the IAF, only the Bisons are multirole. Why would a multirole aircraft escort a airsuperiority fighter against other air superiority fighters?

Yo goog, not directed at you, it’s directed at the PAF Fanatic who thinks that the Mig-29s and the Su-30Ks in the IAF inventory are multirole.

From the article, it seems the 4 F-15s flew against 12 IAF planes. Now, 5 of those planes were Mig-29s, throw in a few Su-30s, and Mig-21s for escort. I don’t see how ‘many’ of the aircraft were strikers.

Mig-21s escorting Su-30s and Mig-29s? 😀 😀 😮 😮

I guess the IAF will use the Mig-21 as escorts for the Su-30s because the Flankers are clearly outclassed by a certain other neighborhood single-engined aircraft. I guess, the Su-30 needs the Mig-21s’ protection. 😀

Buying Eurofighter buys the IAF into the Meteor project

Buying the M2K-5 buys the IAF into the Mica project

Choices, choices, choices… Other air forces would give their left nad to have these kinds of choices. 🙂

Has the Phoenix missile ever shot down anything in anger?

Btw, the Phoenix was just retired by the USN, passing of an era.

The short ranged BMs like the Prithvi may not have just a unitary pre-fragged warhead. It may carry anti-personnele mines, anti-tank mines, flechettes, etc.

One way of keeping an airfield inactive longer is by using runway busters to crater the runway and taxiways and then do a second strike composed of anti-tank and anti-personnele mines. That way, the job of fixing the craters becomes much more hazardous and time consuming because of demining operations.

The fairing on the port side (with the primer), just aft of the main landing gear, could that be an outlet for an APU?

Three of these engines now power two Technology Demonstrators and a prototype and have logged more than 150 hours in flight tests.

As of 27 September 2004, the three prototypes have logged over 283 flights. (TD1-103, TD2-111, PV1-69). Far from his guesstimate of 150.

Harry, the article mentions hours, you are mentioning flights. How many hours have the 283 flights produced?