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Two wrong data (In both Mirage 2000 incident of Oct 2004 & Su-30 incident of Apr 2012 the jets were fully repaired back into service).
So correct figure is 40.
Now India accquired a total of 470 4th gen jets as of Nov 2019 ( 266 Su-30s, 125 MiG-29, 59 Mirage 200, 20 Tejas) which means the crash rate is only 8.5% of fleet strength.
Pakistan accquired around 85 F-16s & 112 JF-17 (total 197) so crash rate is 5.6% of fleet strength.
A very minor difference considering that US made planes have a much lower crash rate than Russian ones.
In 1990s PAF had NO spare parts support from US which resulted in higher crash rate, and compare PAF 3 crashes with IAF 30+ since 1990???
Wrong.
Su-30 airworthiness crossed 70% whereas IAF MiG 29 always had more than 75% airworthiness & even IN MiG 29K is at 68% since 2018.
Wrong, IAF Su-30 airworthiness before 2016 was less then 60% according to IAF sources so 70% airworthiness is only 15% of its service life.
In 1990s it was low hours because of US sanctions but since 2005 our F-16s fly a lot more in comparison to any of IAF fighters.It is actually PAF F-16 fleet which had quite low flight hours in the 90s due to US sanctions forcing PAF to reduce flying hours to save spares.