Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Indian Air Force desired strength

Indian Air Force is one of the oldest air force in the world founded in 1931 with just four biplanes and five indian pilots...now it has one of the most advance 4++ generation combat aircraft ( sukhoi 30Mki) and Mig 29 and Mirage 2000 for bombing missions,but today it faces with fast depleation in its tactical forces due to the phasing out old mig 21 and and Mig 23 and also late induction of LCA....hence we urgently need to buy new combat aircraft for maintaing our military supeority in the south asian region ...hence the MMRCA competition has started in 2007 but it will not be before 2017 that our desired combat strength will be 39 squdrons.I think we should have 60 squadrons for military superiority...230 Sukhoi 30MKI will be for the offensive puropose ,around 120 LCA for point defence,Mig 21 for bomber escort mission ,150 odd Mirage for bombing missions,20 IAI Falcon for electronic warfare and more air to air refulers ,around 10 tactical squadron of PAK FAGA ..and Mig 29 for other missions such as recon ,not forgetting more Mi 35 for gorund support although i feel its the army avaition core which should take that responsibility....as for the MMRCA cmpetition ,we should buy 200 aircraft ...Mig 35 is best suited for it with excellent price for 4++ aircraft and full TOT ,and advance avonics and new Russian ASEA radar ..it is far better than the american and european counterparts plus IAF already has very simillar Mig 29 so it will be easy for IAF to train pilots and does not have to invest in new infrastructure.Also IAF should not forget the need of UAV ..it should invest in Mig Skat and but more Isralie UAV ...as for SAM ,IAF should induct SA 21 which is best SAM defence system.

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