PAK-FA and FGFA: News & Discussion - June 2014

[Manish_P]

Cross posted from Tejas thread:

For all the momeen concerned on the timelines:

https://twitter.com/UAC_Russia_eng/stat ... 87680?s=20

So definitely very good. Order more and get them faster.

^ With which engine?

[Aditya_V]

Back-and-forth on twitter between retired IAF pilots. I believe he is referring to Sqn Ldr Baldev Singh (retd). Posting the tweets in chronological order

Just one small question, is this Ret Air force pilot Vijender Thakur the same pilot Raghu Nambiar refers to as a Mig 25 pilot who flew a Mig 25 low and slow to get a high resolution picture of Batalik sector which made the Mantho Dhalo Air Raid possible?

[Rakesh]

No.

[Manish_Sharma]

Cross posted from Tejas thread:

^ With which engine?

Project 30 is still being developed so it must be 117S

[Cain Marko]

^ With which engine?

Project 30 is still being developed so it must be 117S

Probably. But even with the 117s, it is an absolute beast wrt TWR and achieves a climb rate of > 350m/s. Insane. I wonder what the climb rate will be with the izd30...

[naird]

Back-and-forth on twitter between retired IAF pilots. I believe he is referring to Sqn Ldr Baldev Singh (retd). Posting the tweets in chronological order

Just one small question, is this Ret Air force pilot Vijender Thakur the same pilot Raghu Nambiar refers to as a Mig 25 pilot who flew a Mig 25 low and slow to get a high resolution picture of Batalik sector which made the Mantho Dhalo Air Raid possible?

No thats Wg Cdr PK Thakur.

[gpurewal]

Just one small question, is this Ret Air force pilot Vijender Thakur the same pilot Raghu Nambiar refers to as a Mig 25 pilot who flew a Mig 25 low and slow to get a high resolution picture of Batalik sector which made the Mantho Dhalo Air Raid possible?

No thats Wg Cdr PK Thakur.

I think you mean PJ Thakur. When I searched for Wg Cdr PK Thakur, results regarding a retired IAF lady pilot came up. Could you PM me some information regarding the events for Batalik sector? I'm interested in that but, searching for that event only brings up a single sentence regarding Wg Cdr PJ Thakur being mentioned in dispatches.