I can access the forum just fine.

found this. https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?p=1254549#p1254549

Again.. you’re making claims left right and centre with practically no knowledge about the conflict, its terrain or topography.

How do you know that the ‘man sitting at mountain top’ is at an altitude of max 10000ft?

because he has never seen anything taller than a few hundred feet. 20,000 feet high mountain ranges are beyond his imagination.

utter waste of time to make a thread out of an off-the-cuff statement from a rather average report.

I’m sure if they wanted the Su-30MKI’s to be reliable they could turn the project for modernizing them over to their friends in France and Israel. Wait a minute, they already did that. I guess they are S-O-L making it any more reliable… or maybe its nothing to do with the Su-30MKI itself.

Until the Indians park them inside hangars and keep them out of the elements when they are doing maintenance, it’s a little difficult for the Russians to accept the blame with their lack of reliability. The Russians told them to build hangars and they still have not done that.

what the heck are you talking about anyway ? who said anything about mki’s not being reliable other than this abou whatever fellow ?
the mki’s anyway have better reliability than the F-22, going by past record.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/kargil-99.htm

The numbers involved in a real fight was still limited and not up to the political show of force about that. The main problem of the IAF and the ground-forces was the terrain and to deal with the Stinger-threat for all supporting aircraft/helicopters. In some years from now the Rafale will be a better A2G tool for such a task.

a limited war is not same as a border skirmish. you need some serious reading to do.

the journalist of the der speigel piece, who is of pakistani origin, was refused journalist visa by GOI after a particularly pro-terror article on the 26/11 mumbai attacks.

It seems alot of the ‘indigenous’ indian programmes require significant levels of co-operation? :confused:

at least we have any. :p

just like the americans and soviets needed german infusion, the chinese need russian/ukrainian help and the globe’s largest network of industrial espionage.

Question of secondary importance, but: what name would the IAF give to the Rafale ? How does one say “Rafale” in Hindi ? :confused:

practice of giving Indian names to foreign a/c has been dropped since the su-30mki.

Its all going to be Tipnis Grey not any other colour..so do you have some picture like that?

why ? the mirages are still without tipnis grey.

Although there was no deal, there was a serious “intention” to buy upto over 150 Mirages, but then Su-30 Mki happened. In fact I remember reading somewhere that IAF had even developed extensive infrastructure for over 150 M2K.

you have missed a step in between. intention to buy 150 mirgaes, bought 2 squadrons and then an acquisition freeze followed for ~ 5 years.
the su-30 amd mirage-2000-5 competed for the follow up order and su-30MKI was chosen.

Ain’t Brazil wanting an assembly line for a much smaller order than 80 ?

IMO the 80 may well be Gripens, IAFs insurance against LCA delays/failure.

you will be tellling us IAF will be ordering gripens any day now till the last aircraft retires in 2040.