Indian Air Force News & Discussions

[Lord Of Gondor]

The Longbow shot

https://twitter.com/x/status/1321648173467619328

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

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

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

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

 

[Yasser76]

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

Credit where it is due. Impressive feat.

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1322585391560499200

 

[Gomig-21]

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

I was just reading about that here. That missile is gigantic!
BTW, is that a Tejas flying in the top left background?

 

[vishwambhar]

I was just reading about that here. That missile is gigantic!
BTW, is that a Tejas flying in the top left background?

Yes at least looks like.....

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

I was just reading about that here. That missile is gigantic!
BTW, is that a Tejas flying in the top left background?

Yup! Good spot.
Picture should be from a Aero India event

From an old Flight global article (2002)

The newest radar is the NIIP N-011M Bars with a passive phased-array antenna. Its manufacturer claims it is the most advanced multimode fighter radar available. "We can count the number of blades in the engine of the aircraft in sight and by that determine its type," NIIP says. It is claimed the Bars can build a "portrait" of five targets in 1s. This mode has been tested on the Su-30MK/Su-35. The Bars can track several targets while continuing to scan for more and simultaneously track airborne and ground targets. The export variant can track over 10 targets and shoot at four, but these numbers will grow with new software releases, the company says, adding that, in flight-testing, the radar detected an air target at 330km (180nm). Improved Bars will have extended range through use of an enhanced signal amplifier and increased power transmitter.

Staying power

Despite having first flown 25 years ago, Sukhoi's proliferating Flanker family could continue in production for at least 15 years

www.flightglobal.com

Can't even begin to think what the Snow Leopard on the Egyptian Su-35s can do!

 

[Gomig-21]

Yup! Good spot.
Picture should be from a Aero India event

From an old Flight global article (2002)

Staying power

Despite having first flown 25 years ago, Sukhoi's proliferating Flanker family could continue in production for at least 15 years

www.flightglobal.com

Can't even begin to think what the Snow Leopard on the Egyptian Su-35s can do!

I figured it was from some airshow with the people and fencing in the background as well as the way the jet was displayed. What do you mean by "Snow Leopard"? That went over my head, sorry lol.

I also wanted to ask you or anyone else, whatever happened with the FGFA? How come that got cancelled in the middle of the PAK-FA's development? I remember reading a few different stories here and there but I figured I would get the true skinny from you. It's too bad. Not sure if you remember randomradio he's been banned for a while but he was swearing up and down that the program is not cancelled it's just on hold or something like that, while everything else points to the IAF moving on from the entire thing, not even interested in the Su-57 let alone a two-seat variant especially for the IAF. So what exactly happened if you don't mind me asking you to rehash the whole thing?

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

I figured it was from some airshow with the people and fencing in the background as well as the way the jet was displayed. What do you mean by "Snow Leopard"? That went over my head, sorry lol.

I also wanted to ask you or anyone else, whatever happened with the FGFA? How come that got cancelled in the middle of the PAK-FA's development? I remember reading a few different stories here and there but I figured I would get the true skinny from you. It's too bad. Not sure if you remember randomradio he's been banned for a while but he was swearing up and down that the program is not cancelled it's just on hold or something like that, while everything else points to the IAF moving on from the entire thing, not even interested in the Su-57 let alone a two-seat variant especially for the IAF. So what exactly happened if you don't mind me asking you to rehash the whole thing?

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 sensors.
(The Phalcon carries the Elta EL/W 2090 and the Netra uses an LRDE Radar)
Even the weapons package roadmap was sketchy.
It does remain as an option if the jet evolves in RuFAF service.

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

Elephant walk for the Jags

https://twitter.com/x/status/1322733406300463105

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 the same video

 

[Gomig-21]

Love those Jaguars.

2nd batch of IAF Rafales.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1324033710312681473

 

[Ali_Baba]

Love those Jaguars.

2nd batch of IAF Rafales.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1324033710312681473

These ones look like factory fresh airframes, and not 2nd hand which is what the "original" batch looked like..

Take a good look at those pilots, their lives are measured in months as they will be the first into any foray with Pakistan or China, and they will be the first to die.. they are dead men walking...

 

[Gomig-21]

These ones look like factory fresh airframes, and not 2nd hand which is what the "original" batch looked like..

Take a good look at those pilots, their lives are measured in months as they will be the first into any foray with Pakistan or China, and they will be the first to die.. they are dead men walking...

Or they could very well take advantage of all the incredible technologies in those Rafales and score the first kills in whatever conflict they're told to serve in. You never know. They do somehow have an advantage with that fighter jet and the immense technology and weapons it's capable of using.

Let's hope for peace and no one getting into a conflict anyway and we can admire all this great technology for what it is and leave it at that, ok?

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

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 upgraded with the DRDO SAAW and AIM-132 ASRAAM

From AFS Leh: