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Indian Air Force Buying the wrong Fighter Jets to fight China, Indian Air Force
need Su-57 & Rafale Fighter jets. Why?
The Indian Air Force reportedly has long plan
to buy the extra planes to bolster the service’s existing arsenal of around 270+
Su-30s and 60+ MiG-29s. The IAF plans to buy various variants of 83 home grown LCA Tejas as well as 144 foreign-made medium fighters. All the new fighters are
part of an effort to grow the air force from 28 front-line squadrons to 40, the
number New Delhi considers adequate to fight both Pakistan and China at the
same time.
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| IAF's Su-30MKI and MiG-29K |
The Indian air force reportedly wants Su-30s
and MiG-29s to meet its emergency requirement for a couple squadrons worth of
jets. The Su-30, while seemingly impressive on paper, lacks performance and
combat capability compared to Western models. 270 Su-30s and 60+ MiG-29s still
when India want to bomb a terrorist group in neighbouring country, an almost
40-year-old Mirage 2000s, are useful. Referring to the February 2019 clash
between Indian and Pakistani forces over disputed Kashmir, roughly in the same
region where Indian and Chinese troops may collide.
Indian Air Force Mirage 2000s initiated the combat with a precision strike on a suspected terrorist base inside Pakistan hold territory of Kashmir. Pakistan responded with F-16s, when the dust settled IAF has lost a single MiG-21 fighter. The Mirage-2000s has been a more effective fighter in Indian service than the Su-30MKI for precise missions. The Rafale, the French-made successor to the Mirage, likewise is among India’s better fighters. However, the country has ordered just 36 Rafales.
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| Rafale and Mirage-2000 Fighter Jets |
The Su-30MKI not only lacks the latest precision
air-to-ground attacks and also unable to perform well in high-altitude air
bases that support Indian operations along the Line of Actual Control the
border between Indian and Chinese forces in the Himalayas. Kushok Bakula
Rimpochee Airport, Leh India supports Indian warplanes for operations over the
Himalayas. Kushok Bakula Rimpochee’s 9000feet runway situated 11,000 feet above
the sea level. The Su-30MKI will not work well in those conditions as the
brake-discs and tyres must have to replace after every single sortie.
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| Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport, Leh INDIA |
IAF Deploys New AH-64E Apache Attack
Helicopters & Upgraded MiG-29K Fighter Jet in Ladakh, but that does not
mean the old MiG-29s is the right choice for India as they are outdated models
that Russian workers will refurbish before handing over. They are simply not up
to the task. It should be obvious with adequate political will India could
license the Rafale for manufacture in India or should buy Su-57 series.
India and China have been in a border standoff since the last week of April in both the Galwan Valley and Pangong Tso because Beijing objects to infrastructure development by New Delhi along LAC. India on Tuesday said 20 of its soldiers has killed after a violent clash with Chinese forces a day earlier in the strategically important Galwan Valley, a dramatic escalation that represents the first combat fatalities between the Asian powers since 1975. Beijing confirmed there had been casualties in the clash with 47 soldiers has killed.
Both are of different class (su30mki and mirage 2000s) not to be comparable su30mki is an all weather multirole air superiority fighters while mirage is deep penetration ground strike aircraft... Air superiority fighters are mainly designed to protect the air territory from other fighters while deep penetration strike aircrafts are designed to carry ground attacks precisely.. They are not comparable in any way..... So mirage 2000s are ideal for air strikes, ATG targets
ReplyDeleteRight, this for what the post has uploaded to show the need of the hour for the Indian Air Force is not the Su-30 an MiG-29. India need those aircrafts who can perform in the Himalayan range and can go deep in the Chinese air space for deep penetration. If war brokens
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