[🇮🇳] IAF loses SU-30MKI

[Saif]

Date of Event: Mar 6, 2026

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_wZ87Qu8G8

Indian air force loses a SU-30 MKI aircraft. Both the pilots are dead.

 

[Egyptian]

@Krishna with Flute @Bilal9 @Jiangnan

 

[Bilal9]

@Krishna with Flute @Bilal9 @Jiangnan

Maintenance issues are rife with all South Asian nations' Air Forces, especially those who fly more advanced fighters - such as in PAF and IAF.

The level of expertise is often very low, these AF's (as in all of Asia) appoint people based not on merit/expertise but connections, someone's long removed cousin's long removed relative. Nokri at these low level maintenance jobs rarely involve academic excellence or competitive tests, hence these personnel are essentially untrainable on higher tech. Given govt. rules for AF jobs, they are not easily gotten rid of either. No bright student from even lower middle class jobs will ever apply for these low paying jobs.

Unless AF high level administrators in South Asia realize that the fate of an $85 Million SU-35 MKI or a $125 Million Rafale depends on the hands of a maintenance supervisor getting paid a measly few thousand rupees a month (and the precious lives of pilots to boot) - nothing will change.

 

[Saif]

Maintenance issues are rife with all South Asian nations' Air Forces, especially those who fly more advanced fighters - such as in PAF and IAF.

The level of expertise is often very low, these AF's (as in all of Asia) appoint people based not on merit/expertise but connections, someone's long removed cousin's long removed relative. Nokri at these low level maintenance jobs rarely involve academic excellence or competitive tests, hence these personnel are essentially untrainable on higher tech. Given govt. rules for AF jobs, they are not easily gotten rid of either. No bright student from even lower middle class jobs will ever apply for these low paying jobs.

Unless AF high level administrators in South Asia realize that the fate of an $85 Million SU-35 MKI or a $125 Million Rafale depends on the hands of a maintenance supervisor getting paid a measly few thousand rupees a month (and the precious lives of pilots to boot) - nothing will change.

I thought air force engineers are well paid. A mechanical engineer from BUET is supposed to be highly paid, no?