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Beautiful image. All airplanes, except the Netra AEW&C in the background, were built by HAL.
Flying over Bangalore skies. Image tweeted by Grp Cpt HV Thakur.

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Tejas, Dornier Do-228, HTT-40 basic trainer, Hawk-i AJT, Su-30MKI.
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Watershed moment in Indian Missile systems history!
DAC clears ~250 Astra Missile orders.
Earlier the IAF had ordered 50 LSP Astra missiles, which are probably in service.
Currently cleared for use on the Su-30 MKI, will be adopted by other platforms too.
 
Indian MoD clears the 21 MiG-29 and 12 Su-30MKI purchases. As expected, the Su-30MKIs are attrition replacements and will come with a huge stock of spares.

$992 million for 21 MiG-29UPGs + upgrades for existing MiG-29UPGs.
$1.44 billion for 12 Su-30MKIs and likely a huge stock of spares with it.

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India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has approved the INR181.48 billion (USD2.43 billion) procurement of 21 Mikoyan MiG-29 and 12 Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF) amid heightened tensions between India and China over a border dispute along the Line of Actual Control (LoAC) in the Himalayas.

In a 2 July statement the MoD said the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), which is headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, cleared the acquisition of 21 upgraded, second-hand MiG-29s from Russia for INR74.18 billion and of 12 licence-built Su-30MKIs for INR 107.3 billion.

The 21 platforms will supplement 59 MiG-29s inducted into the IAF from 1986 that are being upgraded to MiG-29M standard.

The 12 additional Su-30MKIs will be acquired to replace an equal number of aircraft lost in accidents over the years. These fighters will be licence-built by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). Officials said that HAL, which by March 2021 will have completed the last of 222 licence-built Su-30MKIs as part of the IAF’s fleet of 272 of the type, had been eager for additional orders to keep its assembly lines active.

Other good news is that the DAC cleared the acquisition of 248 Astra Mk1 missiles. This will likely be the first batch of the production Astra Mk1, with 50 having been ordered earlier as part of a pre-production batch. Expecting much larger orders as the production line stabilizes and more fighters are integrated with the Astra.

To be used with the Su-30MKI, Tejas Mk1, Tejas Mk1A, MiG-29UPG and MiG-29K.
 

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