Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

[MarDePopins]

Those aluminium blk3 and that air cooled aesa ain't gonna have much higher performance that blk52.

Yeah i know .. nd those junks are still firing old PL12 bvraam as compared to 145km PL15E of j10s

But i included those only wrt to being Aesa equipped and newer airframe.

 

[705-Lira]

How many astra mk1 we have?? About 200 right..

Need to have more.. also press astra mk2 into service and production.. do user trial on paxtani junk fighters

Though numbers are skewed, I would say there are more than 500 Astra Mk1 BVR missiles on order/in service.
Just last year I guess an additional batch of some 200 missiles was approved for mass production.

Low Rate Initial Production for Astra Mk2 commenced last year.

 

[Patriots]

Astra mk2 entered limited production months back.

The only news in media that iaf said to parliamentary committee that it's preparing to order Astra mk2
And from tender documents,it seems astra mk2 production is in progress
But I have know official data that Astra mk2 is in lsp....

 

[MarDePopins]

Though numbers are skewed, I would say there are more than 500 Astra Mk1 BVR missiles on order/in service.
Just last year I guess an additional batch of some 200 missiles was approved for mass production.

Low Rate Initial Production for Astra Mk2 commenced last year.

Yeah i also had seen sometime back in X of some people quoting approx 400-500 astra being ordered or in process of order book..

I guess it was in BDL yearbook..

If we currently have astra mk2 in our inventory it can be a game changer with it's long range.. nd could potentially tip the favour on our side by spelling doom nd gloom on PAF air vectors

 

[Patriots]

There is no news about Astra. Mk2 induction
At max 2 su30s will be able to fire mk2
As drdo always modifies two jets ....but how many Astra mk2 missile s are available.....a question