Indian Air Force News & Discussions

[Major Shaitan Singh]

First flight of HF-24 Marut aircraft on 27 June 1961

 

[Agent_47]

Hercules C130J plane of the #indianairforce landing at Juhu Airport.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Hercules C130J plane of the #indianairforce landing at Juhu Airport.

LOLLL, now that is really a STOL performance. Juhu Airfield was home to the Bombay flying club and only handled single-engine Cessnas and Pushpaks after Gipsy Moths and Piper Cubs. After lenghthning it could handle twin engined Beechcraft King Airs. Later it was handed over to Pawan Hans for Chopper Ops for the ONGC.

But way back in the 60s; the Crew of a JAL DC-8 four engine jet mistook it for Santa Cruz, landed .... overshot the runway end (naturally) passed through the perimeter fence crossed Linking Road and stopped short of the houses on the other side of the road. The people in the plane survived, but the aircraft had to be chopped up and turned into pressure cookers! That was the last landing of any 4 engined aircraft there, probably the first one too!

 

[Agent_47]

Mikoyan LMFS fighter concept with BrahMos cruise missile.Official image.

 

[sancho]

Russia is out from AN70.They seems desperate to kick start MTA
An-70 aircraft is latest casualty of Russia-Ukraine fallout | Russia Beyond The Headlines
How is AN70 compared to A400 ?


Can confirm these statements ?

The development is in threat now, but my point was to show the importance of having different classes of aircrafts for different needs. The Russians are as usual on a good way with their developments, it's only our part that is in difficulties mainly on contractual matters. Be it Pak Fa / FGFA or IL214 / MTA. The Russians are going on already and since the aircraft will have commonality to the IL 476, they can simply things a lot, which is why I don't expect them to have much trouble to develop the aircraft. It's more the slow Indian time for finalising requirements and contracts that hurts the projects.
The A400 is more aimed to be a more capable tactical aircraft to replace C130/C160 class aircrafts in their roles. I don't see the A70 to be developed to such an extend, even if the development goes on.

 

[Hindustani78]

Indian Air Force's Hercules C-130J, prepares to land at the Juhu strip on the Arabian Sea coast as part of a terror preparedness exercise in Mumbai.

 

[Abingdonboy]

 

[Agent_47]

Acceptance ceremony today of the first 2 Indian Mirage 2000 I/TI at Dassault's Flight test center with @thalesgroup

 

[anant_s]

 

[Abingdonboy]

 

[Agent_47]

Puneet Kaura of Samtel Display Systems

 

[Screambowl]

Ministry of Defence
13-March, 2015 13:32 IST

Anti-Collision Technology in Aircraft

BBJ and Embraer aircraft of Indian Air Force are used for airlift of VVIPs. Both aircraft are fitted with TCAS-II anti-collision systems.

The aircraft are supplied with these systems installed as a standard fit. Hence, no separate funds are allocated towards fitment of anti-collision systems.

The anti-collision technology is fitted based upon the assessed requirement. All the modern transport aircraft of IAF viz C-17, C-130, BBJ, Embraer, IL-76, IL-78 and AWACS fleet have anti-collision system onboard.

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar in a written reply to Dr. Ratna De (Nag) in Lok Sabha today.

what is the difference between anti-collision technology in civil aircrafts and these? Most of them have it already.

 

[K M Cariappa]

Is this plane used by IAF for SIGNIT ops or is it one of the VVIP ferrying machine....??

 

[Víðarr]

Is this plane used by IAF for SIGNIT ops or is it one of the VVIP ferrying machine....??

ELINT/SIGINT

Indian Special Mission System Operational ~ Indian Defence News

 

[K M Cariappa]

ELINT/SIGINT


Thanxxx...
And can you tell me whats the diff b/w a SIGNIT configured plane and an AWACS/AEW&C....