Indian Air Force News and Discussions ll

[harpy1]

India had and still does have, an overinflated sense of it's importance in the global arms market, this partly led to a misaligned negotiating position vis a vis the French and Russians, and now they are in quite the predicament...

Heck of predicament with an estimated capex budget of 500 billion dollars over the next decade alone

Resources that 99% of the worlds military powers can only dream about

 

[Corax]

Heck of predicament with an estimated capex budget of 500 billion dollars over the next decade alone

Resources that 99% of the worlds military powers can only dream about

If that's the case, why did it take you over 20 years of harping on about the MMRCA and in the end just bought a handful of Rafales? You're all mouth.

 

[Ali_Baba]

I used AI to search.This sentence means that the radar's RPU (radar processing unit), VPX SAC (signal acquisition/conditioning module based on the VPX standard), and digital receiver all use COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) solutions
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.In other words, the main backend equipment of this radar was purchased from the international market.
What are the Indians boasting about their own research and development?

True, if it works, then that is fine? It would be better than anything Russia could come up with anyway.

 

[harpy1]

If that's the case, why did it take you over 20 years of harping on about the MMRCA and in the end just bought a handful of Rafales? You're all mouth.

India did not have the resources in 20 years ago
Your playing ignorant
We had just crossed 1 trillion gdp in 2010...
India was not even top 15 gdp then
And the air force was in inducting su30mki on scale then we had made our choice with flankers

Today we have much better financial position
There is no other Russian induction
We are mass obselete fighter fleet
The threat has reached far bigger levels

But the biggest reason we have grown our economy we can absorb a big Rafale contract

 

[harpy1]

Regarding your all.mouth
That capex that I quoted is a,fact
2025-2026 capex is 30 billion
Extroplate over decade its 300 billion
Now add 6.5% gdp growth and military budget growth capex will easily surpass 500 billion dollars that's half trillion dollars

 

[Anahita]

If that's the case, why did it take you over 20 years of harping on about the MMRCA and in the end just bought a handful of Rafales? You're all mouth.

The delay in procuring weapons from abroad for the Indian military is largely due to the government’s push for indigenization. The government prefers that the armed forces, especially the Indian Air Force, prioritize domestically developed platforms like Tejas Mk1A and Mk2 instead of importing foreign aircraft under programs like MRFA.

Even when imports do happen, there is a strong emphasis on manufacturing them in India, as seen with platforms like Sukhoi Su-30MKI, SEPECAT Jaguar, Mikoyan MiG-29, and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, built under license domestically.

Indian Navy faces fewer procurement delays because 90% of its acquisitions are already designed and manufactured within India, aligning well with the government’s self-reliance strategy.

 

[Corax]

India did not have the resources in 20 years ago
Your playing ignorant
We had just crossed 1 trillion gdp in 2010...
India was not even top 15 gdp then
And the air force was in inducting su30mki on scale then we had made our choice with flankers

Today we have much better financial position
There is no other Russian induction
We are mass obselete fighter fleet
The threat has reached far bigger levels

But the biggest reason we have grown our economy we can absorb a big Rafale contract

Regarding your all.mouth
That capex that I quoted is a,fact
2025-2026 capex is 30 billion
Extroplate over decade its 300 billion
Now add 6.5% gdp growth and military budget growth capex will easily surpass 500 billion dollars that's half trillion dollars

You clearly don't know the history of the MMRCA tender, how many aircraft it intended and when it started.

 

[Corax]

The delay in procuring weapons from abroad for the Indian military is largely due to the government’s push for indigenization. The government prefers that the armed forces, especially the Indian Air Force, prioritize domestically developed platforms like Tejas Mk1A and Mk2 instead of importing foreign aircraft under programs like MRFA.

Even when imports do happen, there is a strong emphasis on manufacturing them in India, as seen with platforms like Sukhoi Su-30MKI, SEPECAT Jaguar, Mikoyan MiG-29, and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, built under license domestically.

Indian Navy faces fewer procurement delays because 90% of its acquisitions are already designed and manufactured within India, aligning well with the government’s self-reliance strategy.

That's at odds with reality given the never ending saga of the MMRCA. If the government preferred "indigenous" aircraft, it wouldn't keep the MMRCA tender open for so long. Maybe the IAF doesn't really have faith in "indigenous" systems, and prefers foreign imports?

 

[alphapak]

SU-57 - Not real 5th gen, Russians have only produced 20 operational units in 10 years, so even in a BJP drug induced sex fantasy HAL will never be able to make half that many every year.

Indians are now talking about the R37m missile on the Su 30 MKI? how effective
is this missile against fighter jets?

 

[Corax]

Indians are now talking about the R37m missile on the Su 30 MKI? how effective
is this missile against fighter jets?

Well they had Meteors on Rafales didn't they, how did that end up?

 

[Anahita]

That's at odds with reality given the never ending saga of the MMRCA. If the government preferred "indigenous" aircraft, it wouldn't keep the MMRCA tender open for so long. Maybe the IAF doesn't really have faith in "indigenous" systems, and prefers foreign imports?

if Tejas Mk2 takes first flight this year IAF will say goodbye to MRFA

 

[kmc_chacko]

if Tejas Mk2 takes first flight this year IAF will say goodbye to MRFA

MRFA is a necessity till IAF rake up 45+ squadron

 

[Ali_Baba]

if Tejas Mk2 takes first flight this year IAF will say goodbye to MRFA

"IF" ..... "IF" ..... "IF" .....

 

[CallSignMaverick]

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[Anahita]

MRFA is a necessity till IAF rake up 45+ squadron

i think now IAF has revised the requirement to 56 squadrons in 1960 IAF wanted to have 65 squadrons
this requirement can be fulfilled only when India starts making fighter jets in India with all major systems (Engines in particular) built domestically