Pakistan Airforce is operating Mirage III/V aircraft from the 60s. They don't crash. Mig 21 and Mig 27 crash often because they are 25 years old? For a good jet fighter that doesn't see much combat use but just routine sorties, these crashes means a lot for the IAF engineering teams. Also, the newest and the most potent fighters, SU 30 and Mig 29 have also resulted in crashes. None of the JF-17s so far has crashed.
Just admit when you are wrong. There is not a single type of fighter
new or old in IAF which has not crashed.
Give IAF the f-22 raptor or JSF 35, i am sure they will even crash that.
As the general says 18 months before first planes start to arrive for the MMRCA tender, we'll see if anything improves.
I personally feel sad when an IAF pilot/crew dies, for he didn't die in war but peacetime. All my regrets and condolences to their family.
But the Indian Government must take action and increase the supervision and quality control. Multi million dollar jets are of no use if they start crashing.
Count the number of planes/type of planes that PAF crashed and IAF crashed since last year. See the numbers yourself.
Are you sure about the Mirage III/Vs. If you have never visited the ' Aircraft Crash Notification' thread of this
forum, I can give you a summery.
2006 (from April, starting of thread)
1) 6th April F-7 crashed near Attock, Pilot killed
2)20th April Mirage crashed near Karachi
3)19th May Mirage crashed near Karachi
4) 1st Sep F-7 crahed, Pilot killed
5)20th Oct Mirage crashed near Dera Ismail Khan
6) 22nd December Mirage crashed near Karachi
2007
1)1st January -Mirage crashed near Jhang
2)7th February-Mirage crashed in East Punjab
3)15th February F-7 crashed near Karachi
4)13th March-F-7 crashed near Quetta, Pilot killed
5)25th April-Mirage crashed in Punjab Province
6)8th Jun FT-6 crashed near peshwar
7)5th Sep-F-7 crashed near Quetta, Pilot killed
8)15th December-F-7 crashed near Faisalabad
2008
1)15th February-Mirage crashed in East Punjab, Pilot killed
2)18th March-Mirage crashed near Rajanpur
3)17th April-F-7 crashed near Faisalabad
4)11th June-T-37 crashed near Mandan, Pilot killed
5)21st June-F-7 crashed near Faisalabad
6)10th july T-37 crashed near Malakand
7)13th August-Mashaq crashed in East Punjab, Pilot killed
8)9th October-F-7 crashed near Sargoda
2009
1)29th May-F-7 crashed near Kandiyan
2)17th July-F-16 crashed near Sargoda, Pilot killed
3)5th August-F-7 crashed near Attock, Pilot killed
4)12th September-Mashak crashed near Gujranwala, pilot killed
5)16th December-Mirage crashed near Kalar Kahar
You can find about crashes of F-7 which is not within the duration of the thread in
Pakistan_F-7P
Till date 9 F-16 have been crashed, the last one in July last year. Surprisingly all other f-16 crashed before 1994 when the fighters were not so old.
List being compiled
A link about crash of IAF fighters , windjammer posted in the same thread.
IAF lost 36 aircraft, 32 lives in plane crashes since 2006 - dnaindia.com
My intention is not to pull your leg but just to remind you the fact that both Air-forces are operating a large number of obsolete air-crafts which resulted in death of many young pilots.