[🇮🇳] Indian Air Force News & Updates

[Bilal9]

The Indian Air Force has lost one Jaguar bomber as it was crashed during training at night. One pilot is dead and the other one survives. A committee has been formed to investigate the reason for the crash. Primarily it was claimed by the Indian Air Force that the Jaguar bomber was crashed due to mechanical failure.

If the Jaguars are still in IAF service, that is sad. Death traps, taking the lives of so many young promising pilots. Before people jump all over my comments, things are a lot worse in BAF as well.

The Jaguars were commissioned in IAF in the late 1970's and should have been retired sometime ago.

These ground attack airplanes fly quite low and fatigue cracks and technical malfunctions are more common than say, in air superiority fighters. Closer inspection regimes are necessary, and don't know if IAF has that, given the number of crashes in older IAF machines.

 

[Saif]

If the Jaguars are still in IAF service, that is sad. Death traps, taking the lives of so many young promising pilots. Before people jump all over my comments, things are a lot worse in BAF as well.

The Jaguars were commissioned in IAF in the late 1970's and should have been retired sometime ago.

These ground attack airplanes fly quite low and fatigue cracks and technical malfunctions are more common than say, in air superiority fighters. Closer inspection regimes are necessary, and don't know if IAF has that, given the number of crashes in older IAF machines.

Jaguar bomber---yet another flying coffin for IAF. MIG-21 was the first flying coffin for IAF. They are getting replaced by Tejas, I guess.