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shanksinha

^^ on the contrary Gaur Sahab my only intention here is to listen, learn and enjoy. I do accept the lots of leisure time award though but it certainly not my intention to spend it on sarcasm. Rahul M could be right or could be wrong, but then it wasnt me who opened up with things like "ignorant...

shanksinha

^^ Nice Colours Rahul M and a good colourful language too with just the balanced amount of profanities. But then I guess if one is a Forum Moderator............anything goes right!

shanksinha

What is this MiG 29K problem? Do blog posts naming unkown sources constitute a Problem? Its in marked contrast to the things said in the interview posted by Austin. Anyway in the precious few sentences Aroor devotes to this latest "MiG problem" never mention any supply chain related issues...

shanksinha

^^^ The afore mentioned Aroor's "report" begins with an opinionated sentence and quickly ends with show words like Big Trouble, and the so called source actually requests not to go into anything concrete. Wouldn’t be surprising at all if this "source” turns out be someone from Lockhee...

shanksinha

^^ You have hit the nail on the head Singha Sir. I as a not too bright layman am always confused with this "Tejas is Underpowered" song routine. On paper things look very much adequate for Tejas to emerge as nimble multirole fighter. As you rightly pointed out, the thrust to weight ratio o...

shanksinha

Rahul M, ofcourse the raw fuel data is useless as you point out so clearly. But I am not comparing B-52 with Su30 here. Both the M2000 and Tejas are comparable in engine power and over all size etc. Anyway, what I say is that range (op radius) of Tejas (apart from vague little less little more crite...

shanksinha

^^ You are welcome to your draw your opinions Vivek Sir. But let me clarify here. Where have I said anything about M2k upgrade package at all? If you want my opinion on it its sort of vulgarly priced and will be a waste of tax payer's money. The only thing I said is that capability wise the Tejas MK...

shanksinha

M2k is underpowered compared to the Mk1 If that is so why didnt they change the engine on later Mirage variants, like we are doing with our own Tejas? NFTC pilots have gone on record that the Mk1 has only a little less range than the M2k. Tejas has little less range than M2000 which has little less...

shanksinha

except in raw top speed, I dont know if the upg-M2K can beat the Tejas mk1 significantly in other benchmarks? Singha Sir are you really serious about this? Tejas is equal to upgraded M2k and all because it has EL2032? The Mirage 2000 is heavier (more internal fuel) with a heavier weapon load, in fa...

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Oct 9, 2010 HAl Airport Bangalore (Bengaluru)

Image Copyright Devesh Agarwal via jetphotos.net

shanksinha

^^ " The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They've infected everything. Fort Meade has 18 acres of mainframe computers underground. You're talking to your wife on the phone and you use the word "bomb", "president", "...

shanksinha

^^Very Nice Photos rahulm. Thanks for the effort.

shanksinha

^^Thanks Pratik, here is the same bird flying on October 4. Very nice angle looks a beauty:

Photo Copyright Iva Savickii via russianplanes.net

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Is this the Third airframe? (Image Dated 28 Aug 2010, Rostov on Don)

Photo Copyright Michail Mizikaev via russianplanes.net

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Indra 2010

[youtube]dFJt8ORt2fE&feature=related[/youtube]

shanksinha

This is a significant moment in Indian Aviation history, we now have our very own Rolls Royce Nene to build upon and only great things can follow. More power to GTRE boffins and thanks to the Gromov Flight Institute guys.

shanksinha

^^But sir, Gordon's book was published in 2007 only how can it be defining on the current fitment in an evolving aircraft. More importantly if the i486 is adequete and robust why go for higher computing.

shanksinha

^^Boss how did you manage to compare a CASER radar with Zhuk AESA as both are in development radar? Did you use brochure figures for both? Also please provide some info source on the MiG 35 using i486 chips for computing part, would like to read on some.

shanksinha

^^Thanks Singha Sir looks like SAR to me too. But never heard of IAI Astras being used by IAF sp ARC came to mind, couldnt find any other image too. Perhaps Jagan Sir can help here.

shanksinha

Need some help here. This IAI 1125 Astra/Gulfstream100 (SNo.L3467) was caught at Ben Gurion in July 2008 and looks like an ELINT platform. Could any gentlemen throw light on the induction/function/role of this aircraft with IAF. Is this an ARC bird? Thanks in advance. http://img705.imageshack.us/img...

shanksinha

Vivek K its not me who in my excitement used words like Lahori logic etc, so you are advised to follow your own advice. Also raising valid question is different from raising conspiracy theories.

shanksinha

Vivek K: So because the Yanks did not lease a nuke sub, the Russians can keep delaying delivery and charge extra money at the drop of a hat? Must be Lahori logic!! The point is who says the Russians are charging extra money for Nerpa/Chakra, apart from pure speculations on this board. When you repe...

shanksinha

Pratyush said Any news (Paanwala/ Chaiwala/ Vodkawala) how much extra money is being asked by the Russians for the latest delays for the Chakra. Sir jee how do you expect us not to get excited? You obviously have some inside info on this as you already know that extra money is being demanded. Pray ...

shanksinha

Allright enough of this "Paper Plane" stuff. Last I heard (if my memory serves me right) of a MiG 29 variant and paper plane in the same sentence was a sensational front page cover story in Indian Express (2001 or 2002 cant remember). I still remember reading that piece sitting in my colle...

shanksinha

A good video from Indo-Russian Army Ex INDRA 2010 (check out other vids at source):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFJt8ORt ... re=related

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Photo copyright ablogin.ru via russianplanes.net

Photo copyright ablogin.ru via russianplanes.net

-A Dabolim bird at Zhukovsky (Ramenskoye) April 2010

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^^^Yes its an IN Bird (note ARK=Arakkonamon the tail). I dont know if its actually there for the upgrade but they do refurbish Tu-95/142 at Taganrog.

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July 2010, Taganrog, Russia. (Tupolev had a Bear production line, Plant Nr. 86 in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast):

Image copyright Roman at russianplanes.net

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" Nabha Sparsham Diptam Aneka-Varnam Vayattananam Dipta-Vishala-Netram Drashtava Hi Tvam Pravyathitantaratma Dhrtim Na Vindami Samam Cha Vishno." Verse 24, Chapter 11, Bhagvad-Gita Translation: (Seeing the Lord's Grand Incarnation Arjun says...) Oh Krishna, seeing you touching the firmame...

shanksinha

^^On the contrary what is getting really tiresome is the unabashed love-songs for all things Americans. Perhaps the biggest falsification of all is to generalize. And phrases like "all the countries are have treated us the same" and "all are in this only for the money...", ignore...

shanksinha

Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne-was developed for deployment in Vietnam but AH-1 Cobra was selected instead. Later the program was used to develop the AH-64 Apache, Never saw service. http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7011/ah56alc1b.jpg http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6397/ah562.jpg http://img101.imagesha...

shanksinha

Wow! All Russia haters of the world unite!
Oh and some MOP (Main Opposition Party) haters as well...............

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IAF Fulcrums old & new: http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1020/fulcrums.jpg http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/2997/20091119162018mig202920.jpg http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/430/mig29.jpg http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/6452/lehj.jpg http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8421/baaz.jpg Imag...

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pic courtesy Indian Air Force

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^^Bala Jee, Talk about mixtures of MiG-21 and Eurofighter and J-10 and ...........

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8

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The Northrop F-5 Tigershark

Shiv Sir, you mean the F-5 Tiger II (also known as Freedom Fighter in some quarters):

The Tigershark ofcourse was the abortive F-20:

-Thanks

shanksinha

Dear Karan M you have captured almost everything I wanted to say on this matter. While the Americans did pioneer the IRST first on the F-102 Delta Daggers the first modern systems only appear on MiG 29 and Su27 in 1980s and that was a generation old system. But you know how it is nowdays if its Russ...

shanksinha

a stealthy IRST developed in india with israeli involvement should replace the OLS crapware they tend to peddle around So they tend to "peddle" around crap OLS now do they? As opposed to what Super Dooper OLS that India or for that matter Israel has potentially developed? Their fighters h...

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at Zhukovsky

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