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Scorpene #5 launched! INS Vagir INS Kalvari & INS Khanderi commissioned, INS Karanj and INS Vela in sea trials and INS Vagir launched. (Also INS Vishakapatnam in the background) The U Boats are under a deep modernization(Contract signed with TKMS in 2018) as well (Pic credit Strategic...

Student Pilots get a taste for flying beginning with the Pipistrel Virus 80 Hp/140Kts+/15000Ft+/+4g/-2g And if lucky move on to the PC-7 Mark-II 700 Hp/250 Kts+/20000Ft+/+7g/-3.5g Then the Jets! The Kiran Mark-2 18kN+/400Kts/30000Ft+ And the Hawk 132 25.5kN/550Kts+/45000Ft Soon to be...

Historic day for Indian Aerospace sector

Elephant walk for the Jags Some great shots from Vayu: (All are Jaguar IM variants from the famed "Dragons" drawing first blood in 1944 by Air Commodore J.C Verma, DFC against a Nakajima Ki-43 while flying the Hawker Hurricane) Older MiG-29 and the Upgraded MiG-29 with the massive CFT in...

Yes, it is cancelled. IAF was unwilling to foot the development bill especially as they saw the Izdeliye 30 were nowhere in sight and a reworked AL-41(which itself is an evolved AL-31) was not very confidence inspiring. Even in terms of airborne AESA, IAF is leaning towards Western/Indian...

Yup! Good spot. Picture should be from a Aero India event From an old Flight global article (2002) https://www.flightglobal.com/staying-power/42387.article Can't even begin to think what the Snow Leopard on the Egyptian Su-35s can do!

Defencereview Greece(i enjoy articles on that site as well) also has an article on the topic. Really impressive what EAF have done to make sure that all the various types complement the others.

Exercise Malabar set to begin The Indian Navy will participate with the INS Shivalik, INS Ranvijay, INS Sukanya, INS Shakti and INS Sindhuraj The menacing INS Ranvijay

A Su-30MKI loaded with a BrahMos took off from Halwara, tanked up mid air and launched the Mach 2.8 cruise missile against the Ex-INS Cannanore some 4000 Km away from Halwara! The entire mission was several hours long. Reportedly the jet was from Sqn 222, "The Tigersharks". File Picture from IAF

Older IAF BBJs (737-200) reconfigured with SIGINT/ELINT payload Interesting, IAF used 3 of these BBJs before being replaced by the more sophisticated -7 BBJs. Not sure if the 3rd one also is reconfigured. Here are the same K2413 and K2412 from back in the day Credits to Kunal Biswas from Twitter

The Longbow shot

Crystal Maze has GPS+TV/IIR guidance. Used for BDA after the Cheaper SPICE hits. No weather restrictions on most guided munitions with IAF. Some important comments from RM : https://www.livemint.com/news/india/army-most-trusted-and-inspiring-organisation-in-india-rajnath-11603900917881.html

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The Mistrals are just superb, the next step could be a Fast jet Aircraft Carrier for EN. The first in the continent! And even the Sub shot is great. Something I did not know, a model Helwan HA-300 in United Arab Republic colours! Seems both Egypt and India learnt a lot from the Legendary design...

Vijayadashami celebrations from Sukna

From 2018 Cope India exercise The then PACAF Chief and present USAF chief after his sortie in the Mirage The USAF flew in from their home location in Japan with their F-15 jets and C-130J Super Hercules aircraft This is a bit long but has some nice shots of the recoveries of Su and Jags, the...

The tail houses the DRDO developed unified EW Suite with a jammer Although not the beast that the D29 EW suite on the MiG29Upgrade is, it is still very helpful.

Well the Global 5000 makes an extremely rare appearance, manned by the IAF but under the ARC: The DARIN-III Jag(Lovely image by Praneeth Franklin) and another beauty from Sanjay Simha:

Jags will be operational and they will be potent. The engines are common to the Hawk(most sections), HAL built the jets so lots of local know how for the platform.The weapons fit is already mostly inducted (The ASRAAM/CBU-105/Harpoons)