Bharat Rakshak

Amitabh wrote:Is this a model of the Project 15B (P15B) destroyer by any chance?

looks like the Italian FREMM, not the 15B

TOI: Pune to get 3rd Sukhoi sqn Any idea which Squadron? Thats what baffles me, with the Pursoots being assigned to the MKI already, and reports saying another two squadrons of MKI will be deployed in the East, where are all these airframes coming from? Whats the logic behind it, gurus? Pune doesn'...

TOI: Pune to get 3rd Sukhoi sqn PUNE: The multi-role strike fighter squadrons of Sukhoi 30MKI, which had moved out of Lohegaon Air Force station have now returned in style — after a successful Red Flag excercise in the US. In the next few months, the fleet will be enforced with a third squadron, ma...

sum wrote: The F-16 at the bottom sure has a weird pattern...Dont recall such a pattern before!!!!
Is there any significance of that pattern(as in specific to maritime or desert ops etc)?

the F-16 is from an Aggressor Squadron, IIRC all US Aggressor Squadrons are painted in camo similar to the RuAF jets.

Some nit-picking: * F-22 participated in two Red Flag exercises this year (first time it has participated in Red Flag). * F-22 are not based at Nellis, but only at at Langley, VA (with first overseas deployment, not basing, recently) * F-22 participated in the Jan Red Flag and March Red Flag A litt...

MukulMohanty wrote:They went out mid-2006 for replacement to MKI. Shouldn't that be completed by now.

As for not reading ths posts, apologies..

nope, as of Jan this year, they were still all bunched up, parked on one of the Lohegaon AFB runways.

X-posting from aircraft-photos.net forum With thanks to Martin from Cottesmore Aviation Group here is the latest... Weds 27th June - all times are local 1xIl-76 callsign 'Astra' ETA 11:55 Thurs 28th June - all times are local Callsign 'Titan' Il-78 & 3xSU-30s approx 08:15 Callsign 'Pluto' Il-78 ...