[🇮🇳] Indian Air Force News & Updates

[4MikeEcho]

This is typical India. For a decade telling the world on 126 aircraft MRCA and all sort of fly offs against different suppliers and all but ultimately the beggars are going to fly their own airplane . All those mostly European companies bending over backwards thinking India will do something with the same efficiency they run a bad call center learned the lesson. At the end even Lockheed came with an update F-16. But India destiny was always Tejas. I hope from here on India is Tejas all the way

 

[Old School]

They are paying off some BJP affiliated businesses from the public funds for their contribution to the BJP party fund in the name of make in India. We see the same practice in the Pentagon defense contracts.

 

[Old School]

[H1]Indian Air Force's oldest pilot Dalip Singh Majithia passes away at 103[/H1]

Squadron Leader Dalip Singh Majithia's cremation will be held today at noon at his farm in Uttarakhand. He joined the Indian Air Force volunteer reserve in 1940 during World War-II. Squadron Leader Dalip Singh Majithia was the oldest living pilot of the Indian Air Force.
Indian Air Force's oldest pilot Dalip Singh Majithia passes away at 103 | Chandigarh News - The Indian Express

 

[Saif]

"No Runner Up In Conflict", Eastern Command Head Says #IAF Keeping Pace With Fast Changing Dynamics​

 

[Bilal9]

 

[Saif]

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.

 

[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.