ramana wrote:BTW rohit we haven't seen any IAF leader talk about the four aircraft in close proximity exhibiting similar phenomena. So have to think why?
Maybe you can ask your contacts?
ramana, as a matter of principle, in all these years of reading on and trying to understand defense matters, I never ask my friends in the Services about any information related to their work. My discussions are limited to military history, tactics and technology. All the info that I've gathered is from open source.
Coming to your question - All we know that it was a 2 vs 1 DACT where the Mirage-2000 was playing the aggressor. Remember, the deceased pilot was a Fighter Combat Leader (graduate of TACDE) and an Instructor. The Su-30MKI pilots were both Squadron Leaders, so safe to assume they were undergoing FCL course at TACDE.
And no IAF officer will comment on tactics or go into details of what they do. W/O knowing the parameters of the exercise, it would be speculation. But as I said in previous post, the only hint is about a comment on closure speed. Which indicates it could've been a WVR scenario with 2 vs 1.
PS: This is many years back, when the IN was to get Mig-29K and their pilots went to IAF Mig-29 squadron for conversion and training. I remember a shocked IN aviator commenting someplace that IAF Mig-29 chaps train for 1 vs 3 and even 1 vs 4 scenarios.