'MiG-21s to be phased out'

[pmukherjee]

Few days back my dad and i were talking about MIG 21 crash, this is what he said about MIG21 ,"When i joined Airforce in 1972 ,Mig21 was a force to reckon with pilots love to fly but today as My retirement date approaching ,an aircraft which deserves a respectful Sendoff now it branded as flying Coffin"...

Yes, Mig 21 biz are great fighters. Perhaps, one of the greatest the world has seen. However, they were not really user friendly, nor were they made for kids. Retire them with honor.

 

[tallboy123]

Mig-21's are being used even when their lifetime has exceeded.....They had to be phased out by 2000...

 

[SpArK]

Death by flying junk
​

NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force (IAF), the fourth largest force in the world, has lost 999 aircraft since 1970—476 of them MiGs— bringing the average to an appalling 22 crashes every year. In the last five years, 26 jets have crashed.

While the spate of accidents has led to loss of aircraft, they have also come at the cost of an immeasurable human resource— young fighter pilots. MiGs have claimed the lives of 176 Indian fighter pilots so far. On August 2, the IAF lost a single-engine Soviet vintage MiG-21— that accounts for nearly 62 per cent of the crashes in the IAF—and 24-year-old Flying Officer Suraj Pillai. The young pilot had tried to eject, but apparently, the canopy of his cockpit did not open.

On August 4, another young flyer Flight Lieutenant Siddharth Pandey perished when a British-built ground strike fighter jet Jaguar crashed 50 miles southeast of Gorakhpur airbase in Uttar Pradesh.

Two fatal accidents in the span of a week have brought into focus the chinks in the IAF’s capability. It lacks basic trainer aircraft for initial training of its rookie pilots.

Death by flying junk | Indian Air Force | MiGs | The New Indian Express

 

[LiberalAtheist]

Phasing out planes without repacement is a stupid decision.

i'd rather do that than have hundreds of pilots lose there lives or get iseriously njured flying 1950's supersonic junk aircraft,

 

[LiberalAtheist]

Death by flying junk
​

NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force (IAF), the fourth largest force in the world, has lost 999 aircraft since 1970—476 of them MiGs— bringing the average to an appalling 22 crashes every year. In the last five years, 26 jets have crashed.

While the spate of accidents has led to loss of aircraft, they have also come at the cost of an immeasurable human resource— young fighter pilots. MiGs have claimed the lives of 176 Indian fighter pilots so far. On August 2, the IAF lost a single-engine Soviet vintage MiG-21— that accounts for nearly 62 per cent of the crashes in the IAF—and 24-year-old Flying Officer Suraj Pillai. The young pilot had tried to eject, but apparently, the canopy of his cockpit did not open.

On August 4, another young flyer Flight Lieutenant Siddharth Pandey perished when a British-built ground strike fighter jet Jaguar crashed 50 miles southeast of Gorakhpur airbase in Uttar Pradesh.

Two fatal accidents in the span of a week have brought into focus the chinks in the IAF’s capability. It lacks basic trainer aircraft for initial training of its rookie pilots.

Death by flying junk | Indian Air Force | MiGs | The New Indian Express

we sent pilots from a subsonic Kiran aircraft to the MiG-21 which is challenging and capable of mach 2 and today we do not even have a good quantity of AJT's or A FREAKIN BASIC TRAINER

poor planning by the AF and red tape is responsible for this RIP to all those pilots who lost there lives in MiG crashes i can only feel sorry for they're families who lost they're men because of idiotic air force planners and apathy from the bureaucracy and its stupid tape

 

[Tshering22]

Now they say this after killing dozens of precious pilots. MOD is a murderer .

 

[WAQAS119]

I guess their will be no need of phasing out Mig-21 till 2017. They will automatically phase out by then

 

[Tshering22]

I guess their will be no need of phasing out Mig-21 till 2017. They will automatically phase out by then

I would agree IF this was not at the cost of our pilots. That is where things catch fire.

 

[Imran Khan]

Am reading abt phasing out if Mig-21s since last decade.

you are new look the orignal plan of phasing out start from 1988

 

[crankthatskunk]

Over the years, the IAF has inducted a total of 946 MiG 21s in its fleet and 476 of them have been lost in various accidents over the past 45 years.

Why you guys are phasing them out by 2017? If you wait few more years they will phased themselves out.
From the rate of attrition, it is not wholly unexpected. 476 lost in 45 years if this figure is right it is like over 10 a year, but I think, most of them are lost in last 30 years, probably 20+ a year.

Way to go Indians, IAF best Air Force in the world by a looooooooooooooong margin.

 

[IndoCarib]

Why you guys are phasing them out by 2017? If you wait few more years they will phased themselves out.
From the rate of attrition, it is not wholly unexpected. 476 lost in 45 years if this figure is right it is like over 10 a year, but I think, most of them are lost in last 30 years, probably 20+ a year.

Way to go Indians, IAF best Air Force in the world by a looooooooooooooong margin.

What do you mean by few more years ? There are only 6 years left for 2017. LOL ! By few years you mean 5. 4 ?? You mean to say in these years we will lose rest of the fleet ?

 

[Last Hope]

MiG-21s, which have been in news for frequent crashes, will be phased out of the Indian Air Force by 2017

How many would be retired? I hardly think any would survive till that.

 

[TOPGUN]

2017 is a along time away they need to be gone soon for the sake of pilot lives i mean india has the resources and funds to replace them now is the time too many crashes and too many young lads gone.

 

[Splurgenxs]

I want em rust buckets out noww!!!!!
#@@$@#$@$!#!^#^