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JF-17 Thunder First air-to-air kill. On 18 June 2017, An unmanned Iranian drone allegedly on a spying mission was shot down by a PAF JF-17 Thunder fighter jet in Balochistan Panjgur area 45km inside Pak territory. Iranian S-129  UAV  was operating deep inside Pakistani airspace. Air Defence units of the Pakistan …

How India made a very wise decision by going for only 36 Rafales and not 126? ( What is afoot with the RBE2 AE radar of Rafale? ) Rafale was the winner of MMRCA for a reason. Among other qualities, it also had the first AESA radar developed in Europe. …

The Best beyond visual range ( BVR) fighter jet in India and Pakistan – Mig 29K (Read the range of radar and RCS of aircraft vis-a-vis other fighter jets)   We were surprised by the despondency shown by some followers at the prospect of India acquiring 21 more Mig-29K fighter …

F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II are US most advanced sophisticated, maneuverable and stealthy fighter jets in the World but Unfortunately, they have a difficult time communicating with each other. The Raptor’s Intra-Flight Data Link (IFDL) is compatible with F-15 Eagles and other older aircraft, but the F-35’s Tactical …

F-35 Lightening II does not fear Infrared Seeking Missiles Thanks to DAS ( AN/AAQ-37) Just the thought of an infrared seeking missile gives nightmares to pilots flying the best of aircrafts. But F-35 Lightning II has no such danger thanks to its Distributed Aperture System or DAS. ‘The Guardian’ is …

China to equip PAF JF-17 Thunder  Fighter Jets with  KLJ-7A active electronically-scanned array (AESA) radar on 28 March  China Daily newspaper reported that China will upgrade Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder multirole fighter jet  with the KLJ-7A active electronically scanned-array (AESA) radar The head of  Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology (NRIET) …

95th anniversary of the establishment of the Italian Air Force On 28 march 2018 Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare)  celebrated 95th anniversary of the establishment of the Italian Air Force . An Air Force parade was organized at the end of Airforce parade italian air force  aerobatic demonstration team Frecce Tricolori performed …

US Air Force Research Laboratory Released Video Featuring Concept of 6th generation of fighter jets   The US Air Force Research Laboratory recently released  a video ” 2030 A call to Action ” which  shows what a sixth-generation fighter jet might be like. In video you can see a  conceptual …

Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) and Jammer are very important part of Electronic Warfare Suite. RWR and Jammer work in combination with each other. Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE) an arm of DRDO had developed Tarang-1/1B/2 RWR and most of India’s fleet of Mig-21, Mig-27, Mig-29 and Su-30 MKI had been …

AH-64 Apache Longbow versus Mi-28 Night Hunter or Havoc There is a hot debate going on since last few years between two of the leading attack helicopters of this generation as to which one is better – Apache or Havoc, more so since both their parent countries aggressively took up …