Servicing delays ground India’s best fighter jets SU-30 MKI

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

Servicing delays ground India’s best fighter jets SU-30 MKI
With India and Pakistan sabre-rattling over cross-border skirmishes, a distressing fact about India’s premier fighter jets has come to light.

Published: 17th March 2019 09:34 AM | Last Updated: 17th March 2019 09:34 AM | A+A A-

By Mayank Singh
Express News Service
NEW DELHI: With India and Pakistan sabre-rattling over cross-border skirmishes, a distressing fact about India’s premier fighter jets has come to light. According to sources, over 20 SU-30 MKI fighters, the backbone of the Indian Air Force, are lying with Hindustan Aeronautics for overhaul and are not available for combat.

While HAL has 15 overhauling lines, it could service only 10 aircraft last year. MoD sources highlighted the problem and said that “assuming the massive effect of the problem, remedial measures have been taken.”

“The delay is of three years. While the HAL had 15 overhauling/serving lines and it was not able to complete the task, Air Force’s Base Repair Depots have set up 10 additional lines to make up for the loss of time,” added the sources.

HAL sources said the aim is to bring the time period for overhauling/serving to 22 months in the next two years and then the BRD will assist in bringing it down to 15 months.

Every IAF fighter aircraft goes to HAL for major overhauling and servicing. In case of Sukhois, they are due for overhauling after completing 1,200 hours of flying time. The minor overhauling of the IAF aircraft and helicopters is done at the unit level.

Initially, the schedule to complete the overhauling was 14 months but HAL wanted the time raised to 22 months. However, HAL has not been able to meet even this target as it takes around 27 months to overhaul/service one SU 30 MKI. This delay has caused a number of Sukhois to be non-operational.

The matter assumes significance in the light of losses of fighters in recent months. This year, the number of fighter squadrons is down to 30 against the authorised strength of 42.
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[Keysersoze]

To be honest this is barely news. Pretty much an open secret that the service rates of the IAF is poor.

 

[Imran Khan]

To be honest this is barely news. Pretty much an open secret that the service rates of the IAF is poor.

they announce after a while they have reached 90% -80% bla bla but in real its too low .

 

[pkd]

Seems more like propaganda article to get into heads of the adversary, especially the timing in particular.
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu

 

[slapshot]

Seems more like propaganda article to get into heads of the adversary, especially the timing in particular.
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu

Haa Haa.... Reality is the exact inverse of what you said.

 

[hussain0216]

Open secret that everyone knows

The indians might pretend they have raised the service rates but in reality its as bad as ever

Combine that with the ages it takes to ready the jet then you can guess the problems indians are facing with the su30

 

[newb3e]

good thing we shot down one su 30 one less plane to service for supa HAL

 

[litman]

20 jets out of around 230 for overhaul is not a very bad performance.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Modi has lost confidence on Su30MKI, and demanding Rafale for combat role on front lines.

 

[Daghalodi]

Modi And bhakts have lost confidence in su30 mki and hate this fighter plane.

All they dream of is RafaLes!!!

 

[faithfulguy]

Seems more like propaganda article to get into heads of the adversary, especially the timing in particular.
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu

So are you saying that all these Indian bragging are calculated moves. I wish they are that smart. As much as scorpion stings, Indians brag. It’s in their nature.

 

[Keysersoze]

20 jets out of around 230 for overhaul is not a very bad performance.

Theres a difference between overhaul and maintenance. The availability of the SU30MKI hasn't improved much from roughly 50%.

 

[Signalian]

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu

27th Feb 2019.