sancho
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I was under impression that NORMAL squads are (18+4) 22 no strong. So I was expecting atleast 18 like MMRCA.
Plus I am one of the believers of " quantity is an additional quality ". I like Chinese for that.
As I said, 18 is the normal number, but for mixed squads of single and twin seaters, MKIs don't need additional twin seater for training.
Quatity is a good thing, but you have to look at the capability too. IAF currently has 100s of ground attack fighters, which can't be used for A2A, similarly they had 100s of Mig 21s, or even 29s, which couldn't be used in A2G. So IAF hat lets say 600 fighters in total, but only 250 for A2A, 250 for A2G and 100 for both. By 2020, IAF might have the same total number of fighters, but except of around 100 x Jags, all will be multi role capable, so 500 for A2A and at the same time for A2G too.