This is an old news
If the op used Google instead of Baidu
He would find news about additional Mig29s acquisition dating back to may 2019
We will get these aircrafts after upgrading to Mig29upg standards
And they are Quite cheap at 30 million Usd each, and they would allow us to retire...
just because PLAAF don’t disclose their crashes doesn’t mean they don’t happen
China have lost more J10, J15 and J16 in last few years than USAF have lost planes in this decade
If their is an impending war
Then u would have seen far more aggressive emergency procurements than just 100 M777 Guns and Some Javelin ATGMs
A billion USD cheque would probably have been sent to France to transfer 40 odd low mileage Mirage 2000 D, they have in reserves
And
Israel would have...
You guys should have sold it to Arcelor Mittal when they had offered 1 billion USD back in 2012, when Nawaz was in Power and steel prices were booming
Now due to Pandemic, your only option is a shutdown or gifting it to some Chinese investors at a throwaway price
How can the plane take off without the doors being properly shut
What were the Stewart's and Air Hostesses upto
surely someone would have seen a door partly opened
What would have happened if the door got fully opened when the plane was over Arabian sea
India ordered the first batch of 50 Su30s in 1997
We placed the follow on order for 140 SU30MKIs in 2002 after the year long Indo Pak Stand off starting Dec 2001
This is a Random tweet from a nobody
Why make a thread out of it
Their were plans to order additional M777 Guns after the first order of 145 guns gets completed
But their is no way BAE can deliver them in 20 days as the article suggests .
Unless We are looking to buy from US Army Surplus...
I did cross check ur numbers
While its correct that their have been 9 Mig29 crashes
But that is since 1991 not 2000
As far as Mirage 2000 is concerned
I have only been able to find account of 4 crashes since 2000
While for Su30Mki
The number is nearly accurate with 10 losses since 2000
Crashes...
Someone needs to reboot 2020
Too many disasters in this version
Be it weekly earthquakes in Delhi to Chinese Raita called Covid19 to now mega storms threatening our coastal populations
I remember that a few years ago, U guys paid Turkey to upgrade some 46 Block 15 F16s to block 40/42
This was at a time when u were inducting 18 block 52s
If it was easy to update the older model F16s to Block 50/52s , I am sure PAF would have done that, unless their were some restrictions...