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Indian Airforce's first Sukhoi: The Su-7 Sadly, not many people are aware of the first Sukhoi to serve the Indian Airforce given the limited literature available on this plane. But even limited literature doesn't take away the visible mark the Su-7 left in history of the subcontinent...

wow! What a riot in the previous pages. :rolleyes: If only we had even 8 of them, half a squadron. *sigh* Geo-synchronous satellite is on a whole different altitude. Spy satellites are generally found between 300km to 2000km or in the Low Earth Orbit. Geo-synchronous orbit is at an altitude of...

MiG-31s max speed is not M2.5. It's Mach 2.83. http://www.migavia.ru/eng/military_e/MiG_31_E_e.htm Someone asked for BARS radar before, so - NIIP Both are Manufacturer's site ^ MiG-25 can reach Mach 3.2 but only for a minute or two. If you push it to M3.2 for too long your engine is...

Yea, because it hurts their pride. I wish the IAF releases the details of the spy ops these MiG-25s carried out since they are now retired. I bet half of the ops were carried out not in pakistan but deep in RED Territory. It would be more interesting to read that than watching a James bond...

Most of the spying is done only within 100kms from the border. So by the time their slow F-16s would scramble get to height and reach maximum speed, MiGs will already be in Indian Airspace. But the proliferation of BVR missile does pose a threat no doubt, but it something which can be defeated...

Good luck trying to get the global hawk. The U.S will never offer that aircraft unless India signs CISMOA. Here that agreement is paramount since India will have to use their standard datalinks to operate that UAV. This isn't an P8 or C-130 where the communication equipment was stripped before...

MiG-31 - The Fighter India refused to buy. Following the retirement of the MiG-25, the residents of Rawalpindi may have heaved a sigh of relief since now they don't have to replace their Glass Windows often, but on the other side of the border the IAF was left with a huge gap in its...

This ajtr fellow is a pakistani posing as an Indian. http://deefenceforumindia.com/forum/pakistan/38522-pervez-musharraf-i-m-just-like-abraham-lincoln.html Remove the extra e from deefence^

This was not intended to be a Harrier vs PAF topic guys, I was comparing LCA too. Basically I wanted everyone to see how Harrier fared against the Desi counterparts. Besides the desi ones, PAF has around 120 BVR-less Mirage-3s & Mirage-5s, and 180 F-7s, while the IAF has hundreds of MiG-27s and...

Most people are unaware of Indian Navy's Sea Harriers, even though they are serving the IN from 1983 to 2012, and they will be retired around 2014-2015. That's 32 years of service for the Indian Armed forces!! So I hope this topic will help improve awareness about this fine fighter. The Royal...

During the second world war, if the Red Army found some gays screwing each other in their army, they did the most practical thing. Instead of wasting bullets, they were made to clear mine fields by ordering the faggots to run over them. You got to admit Russian ingenuity. In India there are...

Your one plane can carry tonnes of guided weapons which could wreak havoc on unsuspecting troops and assassinate a key commander below. They won't even know what hit them. You could simply bomb them from stand-off ranges and say it wasn't us but the FSA which did it. In case you haven't realized...

This is what I call a turkey shoot. lol Syrian airspace is often violated by Israelis who come and bomb stuff like it is their training ground. Last time they came without any warning and bombed a nuke reactor. So its no surprise that Syria shot down an unidentified bogie in its air space...

First I provided a link, since that didn't get to your head, I quoted from it for your lazy a$$ to read, and even after that you keep coming back with the same shyt over and over again. Can't you read properly? "Government The contract envisaged delivery of the 40 aircraft `M' in three phases...

Are you trolling or you seriously can't comprehend basic english properly? I even gave you a link, and you still come back with the same garbage that HAL manufactures these jets. from the CAG link- Government The contract envisaged delivery of the 40 aircraft `M' in three phases...

It says right there in the official website they they do use such coatings... probably in key areas like engine inlets etc. Whenever someone says RCS, they normally mean frontal RCS with X band radar. I have never heard of Side RCS or Top RCS or overall RCS figures.

Here you go- "Due to special coatings Mig-29K radar reflecting surface is 4-5 times smaller than of basic MiG-29." RAC MiG Official site RCS of a Basic MiG-29 is said to be 5m2. 4-5 times reduction means RCS becomes somewhere between 1m2 - 1.25m2

Deliveries started from 2009! Please Read Carefully. It is now mid 2012. The deliveries got completed before 2012, lot of time for inducting all 40. That info was given by the Defence minister to the parliament, not made up by some illiterate desi journos. HAL has only delivered between 60-70...

WTF are you talking about? Are you even aware of the 40 sukhois procured from Russia in the form of semi and complete knock down kits? Press Information Bureau English Releases Out of 230, 50 + 40 is from Russia. So out of 140 to be delivered by HAL they have only completed 60. And did you read...

Cost overruns, Missed deadlines, failure to indigenous.. list is endless. IAF Sukhoi fleet production runs into bottleneck cloud : North, News - India Today If they do that to the MKI, rafale which is more complex is a sure shot quagmire waiting to happen. You do are aware that MiG-29K is...