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Which political party is responsible for all the lack of Air Force’s present day conditions? Was it an intentional act or anything else? If anything untoward incidents happens to India, this selfish political party must remain responsible who always appeased a particular religious people who in turn were a confident instruments of our enemy to bash India.
Fools paradise has been built as a scenario in this paper of the Print.
India builds defence capability as is needed as per our neighbour’s capability. Pakistan has going out of date F-16 which were built in 1984. Their JF-16 is no match to anything. These cannot match either Su-30mk1 or Rafale or current MIG-29. The former’s missile package is being revised to outsmart Pakistani AAMRAAMs. Hence nothing Pakistan has can bother india.
Chinese lie a lot as part of its propaganda. It has only 600 to 700 fighter which can be called modern. Only 30 to 40 of these are the newest Su-35 or MIG-35, others are bad copies of Su-27 or MIG-21/27/29. Remaining 1500 are out of date Cold War era SU-7 and many are Korean war era MIG-19. These are kept in somewhat operational to scare the neighbours with numbers. These numbers are worthless as they will not last a week in war. If the war is fought from across Himalayas, these won’t be able to cross the mountains and if they did, will not be able to return home. Moreover, taking off from 4000 feet Tibet plateau, these either have to sacrifice the payload or fuel load. Hence Chinese airforce is not as scary as this author is selling.
Hence do not believe what this author says. He is writing in Lutynite website to to be critical of the government.
India has very effective 275 Su30mk1, about 40 Rafale armed to the teeth, and 114 upcoming either F-18, F-16, Rafale, MIG -35 etc. I am leaving very effective Jaguars, MIG-29, Mirages, etc. out of this count. They together can hold any aggression, rather give a very effective offensive reply.
This is half-baked criticism of an excellent and very informative article. India has about 250 Su-30MKI fighter planes. However, IAF is not willing to buy more Su-30MKI fighters due to following reasons: (1) Each HAL built Su-30 MKI jet costs around $70.3 millions, whereas a Russian supplied fighter jet costs around $42.5 millions. So much about transfer of technology and cost efficiency of HAL. (2) The HAL built Su-30 fighters are still not fully Indianised, only 51 % is homemade and 49% comes from Russia. These are critical parts where pricing is strictly controlled by Russia who is keen to milk the existing arrangement. (3) Maintenance cost of Su-30 jets is very high. (4) India has publicly admitted that almost half a fleet of Russian supplied fighters stand grounded.In March 2015, the then Defence Minister Parrikar told the Parliament that “Engine-failure-in-Air and Engine-related problems” were reducing the number of aircrafts available for operations. Russian planes are accident prone. Eight incidences of air crash for Su-30 also took place on 30-04-2009, 30-09-2009, 13-12-2011, 19-02-2013, 14-10-2013, 19-05-2015, 15-03,2017 and 08-08-2019. The rate is too high. (5) Undoubtedly, Su-30 is a good plane. But Rafale is still better in avionics , targeting and delivery system. So better not indulge in unwarranted complacency and insouciance. Tejas offers a ray of hope. But still we have lot of ground to cover.
“three additional Su-30MKI units will be raised by 2022, the first of two Rafale squadrons will stand up in early 2020 followed by another in 2020-21, ” How can the first Rafale squadron be ready in early 2020 , when the first four planes will only be delivered by May 2020 ? A squadron is at least 18 fighters.
The whole picture given is too optimistic to be realistic.
Which political party is responsible for all the lack of Air Force’s present day conditions? Was it an intentional act or anything else? If anything untoward incidents happens to India, this selfish political party must remain responsible who always appeased a particular religious people who in turn were a confident instruments of our enemy to bash India.
Fools paradise has been built as a scenario in this paper of the Print.
India builds defence capability as is needed as per our neighbour’s capability. Pakistan has going out of date F-16 which were built in 1984. Their JF-16 is no match to anything. These cannot match either Su-30mk1 or Rafale or current MIG-29. The former’s missile package is being revised to outsmart Pakistani AAMRAAMs. Hence nothing Pakistan has can bother india.
Chinese lie a lot as part of its propaganda. It has only 600 to 700 fighter which can be called modern. Only 30 to 40 of these are the newest Su-35 or MIG-35, others are bad copies of Su-27 or MIG-21/27/29. Remaining 1500 are out of date Cold War era SU-7 and many are Korean war era MIG-19. These are kept in somewhat operational to scare the neighbours with numbers. These numbers are worthless as they will not last a week in war. If the war is fought from across Himalayas, these won’t be able to cross the mountains and if they did, will not be able to return home. Moreover, taking off from 4000 feet Tibet plateau, these either have to sacrifice the payload or fuel load. Hence Chinese airforce is not as scary as this author is selling.
Hence do not believe what this author says. He is writing in Lutynite website to to be critical of the government.
India has very effective 275 Su30mk1, about 40 Rafale armed to the teeth, and 114 upcoming either F-18, F-16, Rafale, MIG -35 etc. I am leaving very effective Jaguars, MIG-29, Mirages, etc. out of this count. They together can hold any aggression, rather give a very effective offensive reply.
You seem to be living in a fools paradise.
This is half-baked criticism of an excellent and very informative article. India has about 250 Su-30MKI fighter planes. However, IAF is not willing to buy more Su-30MKI fighters due to following reasons: (1) Each HAL built Su-30 MKI jet costs around $70.3 millions, whereas a Russian supplied fighter jet costs around $42.5 millions. So much about transfer of technology and cost efficiency of HAL. (2) The HAL built Su-30 fighters are still not fully Indianised, only 51 % is homemade and 49% comes from Russia. These are critical parts where pricing is strictly controlled by Russia who is keen to milk the existing arrangement. (3) Maintenance cost of Su-30 jets is very high. (4) India has publicly admitted that almost half a fleet of Russian supplied fighters stand grounded.In March 2015, the then Defence Minister Parrikar told the Parliament that “Engine-failure-in-Air and Engine-related problems” were reducing the number of aircrafts available for operations. Russian planes are accident prone. Eight incidences of air crash for Su-30 also took place on 30-04-2009, 30-09-2009, 13-12-2011, 19-02-2013, 14-10-2013, 19-05-2015, 15-03,2017 and 08-08-2019. The rate is too high. (5) Undoubtedly, Su-30 is a good plane. But Rafale is still better in avionics , targeting and delivery system. So better not indulge in unwarranted complacency and insouciance. Tejas offers a ray of hope. But still we have lot of ground to cover.
“three additional Su-30MKI units will be raised by 2022, the first of two Rafale squadrons will stand up in early 2020 followed by another in 2020-21, ” How can the first Rafale squadron be ready in early 2020 , when the first four planes will only be delivered by May 2020 ? A squadron is at least 18 fighters.
The whole picture given is too optimistic to be realistic.