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I agree with this logic. In fact I am vehemently opposed to even civilian airports in landlocked places like Bangalore. Civilian airports too should be placed near the borders where the aircraft are closer to the destinations they need to reach. Time, fuel and utility concerns are all addressed by ...

shiv wrote:They will mobilize the armed forces, do nothing and then release some terrorists.

Another Operation Parakram on the Pukkis in the making then? If it does happen, lets just go a step ahead this time and give them a kiss. A kiss of death.

Plus close to the border the easier it is for ELINT AC of the Enemy to pic it up and study it. But we do have them at Jodhpur Air base... And on the eastern front, we plan to have them installed at Tezpur apart from a few places in U.P as well. I thought having 2 squadrons is in itself an extravaga...

chitre wrote: TOI: Pune to get 3rd Sukhoi sqn

Whats the logic behind it, gurus?

Pune doesn't even qualify as a border district! Arent those beauties better off somewhere near the Eastern or the Western borders?

If you want to declare your love for Pak so badly, then go live there. Pooh! Sanjay, go enroll yourself for the next version of Laughter Challenge! Chances are, you'll be given a given time slot on Aaj Tak or India TV....or the next season of Bigg Boss! The guy's ranting incoherently about Godse an...

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SRoy wrote:All mobile networks around CP jammed.

They always do that! They did that in Mumbai too!! Just when we need it the most. Any specific reason behind it?

Is it to try and hold back the spread of panic?
Or is it to stop more remote controlled bombs from going of?

@ Munnabhai and the like... I never defended the lack of action against the jihadi foolhardy jackasses. But singling out a particular section of the Indian polity is not gonna bring peace...definitely not! Deal with terror with an iron fist! Noose them, shoot them or better, make them cry in apology...

MMS can sleep soundly tonite. In the next LS polls, all these sekoolar parties need to be wiped out. Get a life guys... Nobody seems to notice that for 40 years, India didn't experience such terrorism even with the so called 'sekoolar parties' at the helm. Nobody also notices that even with the des...

Gotem! They did it!!

Yeah both, 'sum' and 'asprinzl' have a point. But then even the Amrikis run a risk of exposing their best of F-15s (USAF and ROK) and F-16s especially when they were running air-to-air missions. Raptors or not, the bulk of USAF still consists of Falcons and Eagles.

Its really ashame there are only going to be less than 280 Su-30MKI planned. The rest of the world would sh!t in their pants if the IAF had nearly 3000 Su-30MKI. 3000 Sukhois! yeah, right! Then how about having a "Sukhoi Ministry" to oversee their development. :rotfl: God, how i love to s...

Nitesh wrote:Check ajai sahab's blog

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2008/08/re ... phase.html

Ajai he says

Thats good ol' Shiv Aroor for you

Read in today's TOI, Russia may be eyeing Ukraine next.
Its cant be bad for India. Ukraine's guilty of supplying military hardware to Pak (T-80UDs and IL-78 mid-air refuellers...)

Any comments, Gurus?

Any word on the results yet? How have the Sukhois performed? and what about the Ils?

So we dont seem to have come to a conclusion as to how many Rambhas have already been produced till date. The web sites like Wikipedia and RIAnovosti suggest more than 100 whereas physically only 19-50 and 101 -124 have been verified.

Any updates on that front?

Oops...sorry. i totally misunderstood your earlier pos. i was under the impression that we have produced 124 MKIs with 48 of them limited to the hangars. lol.

Just curious, how are they transporting the bombs to be used at Nellis? On the IL 76 with the personnel?? The sukhois are definitely not loaded.

Ok sir, i can understand having about 15-20 in reserves...
48 of them???
especially when we are yet to produce about half of them?

@ srai

What does having aircrafts in the inventory but not operational mean? WHt purpose does it serve?

@ Saggu
You must have heard about IAI Lavi thats been developed into J-10 by the CHinkus.

Here's a grim lookout on the Su-35 offer by the Russians. What can be inferred from the offer under consideration is that the PAK-FA has been pushed back even further! Hope i'm wrong here. But there's a silverlining too... It would mean better and longer involvement of Indians in the project. Commen...

I have an idea. AFAIK, we have produced only half the MKIs that we will evetually be producing. Why not buy/produce 126 SU-35s instead of the remaining MKIs (also in lieu of Mig-35 MMRCA), on a quasi-MMRCA contract?? The maintenance, production lines shouldnt differ much from that of the MKIs. Also...

its always good to have Ma-hen close by over the ocean...food, guidance and
shelter

wonderful description!

Wonder if that pic/coverage will make the Animal Planet!

I have an idea. AFAIK, we have produced only half the MKIs that we will evetually be producing. Why not buy/produce 126 SU-35s instead of the remaining MKIs (also in lieu of Mig-35 MMRCA), on a quasi-MMRCA contract?? The maintenance, production lines shouldnt differ much from that of the MKIs. Also,...

Sheesh... i feel like jerk actually...!! damn that Indiadaily site.

Actually even i came across thatarticle sometime back and noted down the site, so that i never refer to it again. Yet somehow I overlooked it this time round.

We should perhaps ask the author about the IRBIS radar, he should know.

For your info guys...

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-24e-04.asp

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread174590/pg1

And it says in the second link here, that IRBIS is actually being co-developed with the LRDE!!

Last time when IAF was in RAF land, they switched of radar because of unkil's AWAC in vicinity, probably was there to record signature of rambha radar. now that these guys are in unkil land, are they going to follow the same procedure? my guess they would have to switch it on since these excercises...

It's rather silly that the GOI and IAF lost out on a great PR Event by having a low key departure. If they don't advertise what they do,nobody will ever care about their budget and problems. Let's wait and watch what happens now. Garuds can do FAC and CSAR too... cheers K You missed out one importa...

vivek_ahuja wrote:Its gone way beyond that. I think the first flight is next year or sometime then.

I've come across articles claiming the LCH will take light by the end of 2008 itself, but with full armament or not, i do not know. Has anybody seen its mock up?, it looks sexy