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Always respected Mover for maintaining a nuanced approach, and I particularly enjoyed him calling out the overly nationalistic idiots in the comments section.

I seem to recall the Indian media stating that Minty frantically urged Varthaman, "Nandu, flow cold. Flow cold", and he was unable to hear her. Yet another reversal.

Here is the link for the full interview: https://hushkit.net/2020/03/16/flying-fighting-in-the-f-a-18-hornet-interview-with-a-usmc-hornet-veteran/ The interviewee served in the USMC and has extensive experience in flying the legacy Hornet and all its variants. I found this particular insight...

The audio that you took from what is hands down my favourite ISPR produced video is very touching and very fitting. Every single line of that narration speaks to me: "mein azaad hoon, magar ghulam hoon is paak mittii ka...mein muhafiz hoon aasmanon ka"" Very well done, my guy.

Third World and the other two designations do not refer to wealth or power; they are Cold War era designations meant to depict alliances. First World meant US allies, Second World referred to the Soviet Bloc and its allies, Third World meant non-aligned and/or post-colonial states. So yes...

Fair point. I obviously misread the post.

The closest equivalent to this 60km race that I can find is the Kepler Challenge spanning 60k and covering uneven, mountainous terrain. The record for winning this challenge is 4h33m. Of course, the SSG captain must have been facing different (read: more challenging) conditions, but I don't get...

The age of the dogfight is long gone. BVR combat has replaced the close-in, intense dogfighting so beloved of aviation nerds the world over. The F35 is an advanced multirole fighter that admittedly did lose a mock dogfight to a F16 during testing but dogfighting is not what the F35 is designed...

I wonder if proximity to Parade Grounds decided the allocation of a MLU fighter to aerial display duties. Obviously, the Blk 52s are too crucial to be tasked with the aerial display and I agree with your point.

Yeah I was trying to quote Kaiser Tufail about his experience but I appear to have erroneously replaced 2000 with 20000. Either way, 500 out of 8000 is still around a 94 percent attrition rate.

Buddy, don't embarrass yourself any further than IAF and Modi government have already done. Your "targets" may well have been acquired but you didn't destroy anything of substance. Buss kuch darakht aur aik kawwe ko shaheed kar diya. Please open your eyes.

Wrong thread, buddy

Very true and a very poignant understanding of the situation. Baat tou yeh hai kai fighter pilots face death everytime they sit in the cockpit and fly off into the air: there are hundreds of things that can go wrong with only fractions of a second to react to them. Even if all options fail, the...

Yeah, the F16 is notorious for not being able to sustain higher AoA unlike its initial competitor the F18.

Whatsapp video hai with that cringey and stupid sentimental music in the background. I'd prefer not to share it out of respect to the Shaheed.

There is a video doing the rounds of his body along with a partially opened parachute. He did indeed eject, which is why his body is intact.

You are correct in that it is rude, arrogant, and ignorant to second-guess Noman Akram Shaheed's caliber and decision making considering that none of us are pilots but there is nothing wrong with respectfully discussing the various possible causes of the crash based on a basic understanding of...

Be that as it may, it is not unknown for skilled pilots to lose their lives performing risky maneuvers they have done hundreds of times before. I mean, even a slight relaxation of the muscles could very quickly lead to GLOC, especially at the 7 to 9 G levels and at merely a few hundred feet...

Sadly, this is what happens when blind nationalistic pride replaces actually using one's own eyes to determine what sort of aircraft it is. Agar JF17 bolta tou samajh mein aata because Viper and Thunder appear similar at a distance to the untrained eye, laikin ye tou alag darjay ka knee-jerk...

With high G maneuvers, loss of kinetic energy is a very real danger at lower altitudes. Even if the plane had managed to gain a decent angle of attack pulling out of a controlled dive, there is every possibility of it crashing due to loss of energy. There are videos of a French Mirage and Rafale...