Bharat Rakshak

The HF-24 being underpowered was rejected as being unsuitable for the relatively short runway at the above 2000 feet MSL runway at Hakimpet. But ironically the MiG 21 training was placed at sea level Tezpur. The HF 24 was never tried. BTW, the thin delta of the 21 has very poor lift in low-subsonic...

Aharam the Hawk has been inducted only in the last 4-5 years in some numbers and Bidar is full of them. But as per a recent issue of Vayu - it is still the instructors who are getting fully familiar with the type, and I guess pilots who graduated on the Hawk are now still fairly junior. Ironically ...

aharam sir - any thoughts on the LCA? Welcome to club! LCA certainly fits the bill in the light class fighter. However, not having flown it :-), I can't really comment on its feel. In today's BVR era, the characteristics that made a great fighter in the 60s or 70s are probably not that relevant. Wh...

Thanks for the inputs Aharam. I doubt if training nowadays emphasizes FBW because training itself has been on the MiG 21 for decades. That is even after you left. Pilots have been graduating from the Kiran to the MiG 21 for lack of an advanced jet trainer - which has now appeared recently in the fo...

In my days the principal of REC Warangal was Gp Capt(retd) MJ Kriplani who was an engineer officer from IAF. He persuaded the IAF to give a Mig 21 engine from a crashed plane. This was in display in the workshop or the engine lab for a long long time. BTW the workshop Supdt was also a retired Army ...

jag engines are way overkill for drones. if they auction them as scrap I would like to buy one to keep in drawing room...people keep stuffed bear heads, stag antlers and tiger skins...we can keep engines. Do you remember the old Mig 21 engine in RECW workshop! My first post! Changing status from lo...