As we have reported earlier, Indian Air Force To Deploy Rafale Fighters Jet In Ladakh Sector Amid Border Tensions With China. IAF To Receive 6 Rafale Fighter Jets Loaded With Meteor Missiles By July-End With the Rafales arriving in the country in the middle of a dispute with China, the …
Read More »Indian Air Force To Deploy Rafale Fighters Jet In Ladakh Sector Amid Border Tensions With China
Credits: Indian Air Force The Indian Air Force could deploy its new Rafale fighter jets in the Ladakh sector as part of India’s overarching plan to strengthen its military posture in the region, where Indian and Chinese forces are locked in a tense border confrontation and disengagement has turned out …
Read More »Why IAF Is Not Buying More Mirage-2000s Or Rafale Instead of Su-30s and Mig-29s
Credits: IAF The procurement process for an additional 21 Mig-29 and 12 Sukhoi Su-30MKI which IAF will start getting in the next three years. Purchase of additional Mig-29 and Su-30 to argument the current fleet and also buff up aircraft lost in accidents over the years is a cheap and …
Read More »Why IAF Needs MiG-35 Fighters Jets Equipped With AI and AESA Radar
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-35D Russia Air Force 154 BLUE C/N unknown, help appreciated Tensions around the Sino-Indian border in the Ladakh region, which escalated in mid-June 2020, underscored the importance of the Indian Air Force MiG-29 fighter jets for operations in the region. A columnist for the military watch magazine notes that …
Read More »All 22 Apaches and 15 Chinooks helicopters Delivered To India: Boeing
Credits: Boeing India In the midst of India’s tense border standoff with China, The Indian Air Force (IAF) has received the delivery of all AH-64E Apache and CH-47F(I) Chinook helicopters today. The final five of the 22 Apache attack helicopters were handed over to the IAF at Air Force Station, …
Read More »Indian Air Force To Equip Mig-29 and Su-30MKI Fleet With Indigenous Astra BVRAAM Missiles
Air-to-Air missile Astra successfully user flight-tested from Su-30 MKI aircraft off the Odisha coast on September 17, 2019. – Ministry of Defence (GODL-India) The Defence Acquisition Council, headed by Defence Ministry Rajnath Singh, cleared the purchase of 248 indigenously developed Astra beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) for the Indian Air Force …
Read More »Experts Claim That Chinese J-20 Fighter Jets Are Decades Ahead Of Any IAF Aircraft Including Rafale Jets
Two J-20 fighters in formation – Credits: emperornie Chinese experts have claimed that Indian, Russian, French and US-origin weapons are no match against Chinese weapons especially the J-20 stealth fighter jet which is decades ahead of any French or Russian jets that India operates. Adding further to the criticism, the …
Read More »Indian Air Force Claims To Detect Chinese IL-78 Aircraft In Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir
Credits: twtext Indian Airforce claims that Chinese IL-78 refueller aircraft landed in Skardu last week. Also, Chinese air activity has increased opposite Eastern Ladakh, raising the possibility of PLA Air Force (PLAAF) using airbases in PoK. Indian and Chinese forces are in the middle of an escalating standoff in Eastern …
Read More »Why Indian Air Force Is Buying A 40-Year Old Fighter Jet?
An Indian Air Force MiG-29UPG -Credits: Aktug Ates In the middle of the standoff that India has with China, the Indian Air Force has pushed a proposal to the government for acquiring 33 new fighter aircraft, including 21 MiG-29s and 12 Su-30MKIs from Russia. “The Air Force has been working on …
Read More »Unusual Activity By PLAAF Detected Along With The LAC: IAF Chief
Tensions between the world’s two most populous countries have risen to their highest levels in more than four decades after 20 Indian soldiers were reportedly killed in hand-to-hand combat in the Himalayas. India has detected unusual movement of China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) along the border in Ladakh and put …
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