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Antony is doing his job. He is making sure defence procurement is 100% free of corruption. By doing so mrca tender process goes slowly. If he wanted to, he can get bribes and move papers and get a new fighter contract signed next month. You want that? He is the only minister with a clean record...

Source: "The BIS variant entered the IAF in 1977; license production (220 aircraft) by HAL ended in 1988." http://www.b-r.com/IAF/Aircraft/Current/602-MiG-Suresh.html 23 years is old? Who told u that? Fighters can go upto 35 years, approx. And for the last time, you cannot reach a conclusion...

He is probably the only non-corrupt minister in this whole country and you want to kick him out? The Last Mig-21 was bult in 1988, not 84. Get your facts straight.

What is the Crash per flying hours of the IAF Mig-21? I've been trying to find this info but it's elusive. The JF-17 has a crash rate of 1 per 7000hours/10,000sorties at present. Does somebody have that for important stat for the IAF Mig-21? For once we can conclude whether IAF Mig-21 crashes...

A MiG-21 Bison fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Friday crashed in a field near Sirsa, Haryana shortly after take off, but the pilot ejected safely. The plane was on a routine training sortie when it crashed at Mania village, about 40 km from Sirsa, police and air force officials...

lol... So those IAF pilots are monkeys... Ouch! Atleast I was less harsh. You are comparing a subsonic fighter like hawker or canberra with a Mach 2+ fighter like the Mig-21? Yeah, a cessna is easier to fly than a Star Fighter. What's your point? Those incompetent pilots knew which plane they...

Are you blind boy? You're the one who came with a brilliant technical phrase "unforgiving". Not me. And most older aircrafts are indeed "unforgiving" when compared to most modern ones. And most modern aircrafts are also "unforgiving" if a moron in the cockpit doesn't know his planes'...

lol.. don't pop open a blood vessel, kid. The funny thing is all the points which you raised, the specs are almost equal, which you yourself stated. Of the 3 points you raised, only price is significant. But you conveniently ignored the other of the 4 points. Bravo! Unforgiving? All aircrafts...

wow. looks like another paid news to favor the Americans. Antony is doing a good job of keeping the money in this country. If the Americans can't accept to the MMRCA terms then they should piss off. God dammit, we should really see the flow of money to these media establishments. A few weeks...

here ya go: Which is the No:1 Fighter Aircraft in South Asia ? We should transfer money from this MMRCA to Tejas and PAK-FA projects. This whole MMRCA saga stinks. The only way to save money is to go for Mig-35. Spending close to 20% of the annual budget on weapons which we are not going to...

"Notoriously" ? WTF? Don't transfer blame from the incompetant newbie pilots to the plane. Actually the truth is Tejas is "Mig-21++" in some aspects but "Mig-21--" in some attributes. Tejas Mk-1 Advantages over Mig-21- 1# Range 2# Payload 3# Pilot friendly interface 4# Lower stall speed 5#...

For long we often hear our media spin the defence budget figures to % of GDP, and taking solace of the fact that it is low. But what they don't tell you is the % of the Budget with regards to the National Budget/Government Spending. Here we will see some countries with the Percentages w.r.t...

The same which they displayed in IDEAS 2008. This placard was in orange. Both Klimov and PAC displays the specs and you are claiming otherwise without proof. Are these members designing the engines or Klimov? It may be developed in 2001, but it received IOC only in 2005. Just like the WS-13...

^ Yup. I've often wondered what is the sustained turn rate and Corner velocity of fighters under the same conditions.

I'm aware of that thread. I have posted there.

The German pilot didn't mention anything about low speed. If anything, it was normal engagement where speeds were not fixed prior to the exercises. If they did increase the speed of engagement later on as claimed by USAF pilots, what makes you think the German didn't do it accordingly? With a...

Dude Wiki is only unreliable when the info isn't updated, or when the facts deals with touchy issues. This is the standard definition since a long time. Whatever, here you go: Operational Weight Empty: The basic empty weight of the airplane plus the weight of the pilot. It excludes payload and...

^ My god. What is wrong with people nowadays. People are calculating Empty weight with missiles. The knowledge in this place is unbelievable. Read the post above you for goodness sake.

Here you go: Operating empty weight (OEW) is the basic weight of an aircraft including the crew, all fluids necessary for operation such as engine oil, engine coolant, water, unusable fuel and all operator items and equipment required for flight but excluding usable fuel and the payload. Also...

Dude, no one calculates Empty Weight with missiles. And for your information, coolants and lubricants come with the empty weight. Also, pilot weight is not calculated with the loaded weight. Loaded weight is only fuel, or % of fuel + missiles.