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Guys stop going crazy about Stealth jets before you actually ever SEE a stealth jet do penetration missions against at least a peer competitor or near-peer competitor ADS system.
Like wot de foc - what has stealth actually done in terms of actual war performance to merit such panic ? Heck, Israel *HAS* F35s and they have not announced a SINGLE deep strike mission in Iran with their stealth jet and Iran has far shittier ADS on paper than Pakis.

Yes,stealth gives us more tools to play with, but our ADS is no joke and if nobody has used stealth against anyone with a mediocre ADS like Iran, why are we going 'omg omg' with Stealth ??

We need numbers first and foremost. Pump up the Squadron numbers to 40 or so with tejas 1&2 +Su-30 combos and only then worry about stealth as it comes online for us.

I am not exactly sure WTF we need stealth jets so bad for - we are not going to bomb Chengdu by air lanched Brahmos in next 50 years, if ever. At best it will be blow up Chinese military infrastructure 500km-1000km inside tibet. For that, we again launch from over our air space or Bhutan air space- which is our air space in combat scenario.
We are far more interested in busting stealth and neutralizing Stealth jets - which is not impossible on paper- than we are in getting stealth, fyi.

people who often go RCS signature crap forget, this isnt magic - you dont become invisible in all radio frequency spectrum. If you go stealth mode in VLF, you may just become even more visible in ELF because guess what - the funky shape you do actually doesnt deflect away or absorb the ELF frequencies. Sure, ELF is used for low resolution weather radar and stealth jets are invisible to active combat radar frequences on ground or air at VLF, but i am sure there are people much smarter than me trying to figure out or have already figured out how to make this simple EM frequency reality translate into spotting stealth jets.
No one is getting crazy on their stealth aspect

Its the sead/dead and advanced bvr capability given to them by their sensor suite and lrus
 
The F-35 Aggressors are for China, they are early production models and have slightly worse RAM than production models. The camo scheme is near identical to a early camo scheme seen on the J-20.
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You can see the details of the lighter area's lining up perfectly on both aircraft.

On the contrary, the Americans use F/A-18 and F-16 in Su-57 camo pattern for aggressors as the Russians.
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This is how you know the American military thinks the Russian fighter is a joke. India pulling out of FGFA was the right decision. Going back to rebuy the Su-57 as we are in a desperate situation will just make India look pathetic.
"On the contrary, the Americans use F/A-18 and F-16 in Su-57 camo pattern for aggressors as the Russians.
This is how you know the American military thinks the Russian fighter is a joke."

hmmm....so making russian su 57 camo pattern on american aircrafts f18 etc means american thinks russian su 57 is joke.....dude what kind of logic is this?? 😂😝
 

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk03RJCTWq8
(I can't find the original source, but M7 made a video on it)
About J20, it's a decent LO Air superiority fighter, IG.
Size is Inconsequential if you can mask your radar return to the required extent, so is manoeuvrability.
In the case of a J20, it was designed to be a long-range sniper, and that's what it is. (Lack of Gun goes to show what Chinkis had in mind when creating it)
Canards of J20 make such an angle that it reflects the radar waves away, its belly is smoother than F-35, one could call its belly underwhelming compared to F-35.
Engines' nozzles are serrated to minimise radar returns, Canards are serrated(IIRC, not sure about canard serration)
Modern fighters can control the angle of their canards to reduce radar return
Though not as stealthy, it has the same order of RCS return as the F-35 at least in frontal aspect and has a larger(about 1800+ T/R module antenna) 3rd gen AESA(claimed by the Chinese) and should have a decent EW capability(there is no way that huge ass plane got no Integrated(Internal) EW suite/Active stealth capability

Also note that the median RCS is without RAM and all around, and not just frontal.
And the Newer J20 are coming in with WS-15 engines, can carry 6 PL-15 in IWB( Don't remember if it's with newer PL-15E missiles, if no, then this could go higher to 8 and goated side bay capable of carrying a total of 2WVR missiles

bro this franch youtuber makes video that pakistan killed some rafales by showing that same rafale wing pics, which pakistani show in first day of operation sindoor. so he makes video on propaganda news also. why we believe in his story of f18 vs chinese destroyer story?? he easily fall in pakistan propaganda. Still he didnt make video on indian air force claim of no aircraft got down by pakistani. he only make one side of story of pakistani air force. these guys can easily manupulate.
 
i think this is the appropriate thread

rumours spreading on reddit that india will take bagram airbase to counter porks on north and west frontiers
is it true?? some say that chowmein took it as soon as burger left
 
SEAD/DEAD has never been performed by stealth jets against even a mediocre ADS, let alone an advanced ADS like us.
Didn't the a S 300 site get bombed in Iran? I mean Iran could count as a mediocre ADS.
 
USA is developing a ‘Golden Dome’ defense system that aims to make the country completely immune to nuclear strikes.

View: https://youtu.be/uP-Zqp7evbc?si=qPbQcX-kkIkRVKTV

Are stealth ka we arent giving a f
We are scared of sensor suite, ew suite, lrus and all which make a fighter a 5th gen shit
Stealth kya hai? Thoda paas aake maarna padega? Koi nahi, problem hai 5th gen ka avionics aur lru 4.5 gen wale par bhari padega na yaar, although i believe in f4 block spectra
 
Didn't the a S 300 site get bombed in Iran? I mean Iran could count as a mediocre ADS.
Yes but credit was taken by Israeli F15 and they claimed to've fired without entering Iranian air space.Meaning they did what we did - fire missile at ADS from stand-off distance and not penetrate ADS.

As i asked, before all this hullabaloo about stealth jet capabilities,where has a stealth jet EVER penetrated a mediocre ADS for deep strike missions ??? Never.
So lets hold off doing nautanki over this magic capacity of stealth jets till someone ACTUALLY uses a stealth jet for penetrating enemy ADS.
 
"On the contrary, the Americans use F/A-18 and F-16 in Su-57 camo pattern for aggressors as the Russians.
This is how you know the American military thinks the Russian fighter is a joke."

hmmm....so making russian su 57 camo pattern on american aircrafts f18 etc means american thinks russian su 57 is joke.....dude what kind of logic is this?? 😂😝
Are you guys dense or something??

Using the F/A-18 and F-16 aggressors to mimic the Su-57 is basically calling it 4.5 gen. Instead of using F-35.

If you guys don’t know, the US often paints their aggressors to match the aircraft they are trying to mimic. So are you saying the Americans are soo impressed with the Su-57 they chose to train fighting against it with their previous gen tech..

 
Are stealth ka we arent giving a f
We are scared of sensor suite, ew suite, lrus and all which make a fighter a 5th gen shit
Stealth kya hai? Thoda paas aake maarna padega? Koi nahi, problem hai 5th gen ka avionics aur lru 4.5 gen wale par bhari padega na yaar, although i believe in f4 block spectra
It’s a missile defence shield
 
Looks like this is the era of Standoff weapons. Stealth or Non Stealth, aircrafts will lob CM at more than 500 Km and turn around.

Even, we may see SAM with more than 500 KM strike range. Going by Kusha specs the M3 variant alone will handle Planes at 500Km standoff (Believing DRDO bros achieved significant optimization of missiles).
 
Are you guys dense or something??

Using the F/A-18 and F-16 aggressors to mimic the Su-57 is basically calling it 4.5 gen. Instead of using F-35.

If you guys don’t know, the US often paints their aggressors to match the aircraft they are trying to mimic. So are you saying the Americans are soo impressed with the Su-57 they chose to train fighting against it with their previous gen tech..

lol...dude they themself ans this in their article.

"The new F/A-18E “Red 12” of VFC-12 shows a color scheme sported by the Su-57 prototype nicknamed “White Shark”: it appears to be painted in such a way the silhouette of a Su-57 is seen from distance, a scheme referred to as “Mako”. This reminds what the Russians did on the Su-57 with bort number 053 that, wearing a a special pixelated camouflage on the underside of the aircraft that mimics the plan view shape of the Hunter remotely piloted aircraft, was seen at MAKS 2019".

"Aggressor jets are quite popular for sporting eye-catching paint schemes that replicate the camouflage, markings and insignas of Russian and Chinese combat aircraft, so that pilots in training who come within visual range of these adversary jets get the same sight they would see if they were engaging an actual threat. And, as The Aviationist reported in an exclusive story in September 2020, the F-35 are going to be painted with threat representative color schemes."

they did it with F35 also in 2022:-

mocking enemy aircrafts for different reasons by doing its paint jobs, doesnt mean they think its junk. if its junk, why u hv to do all these exercises etc for that junk fighter....this is mainly used for visual range fighting exercise for their pilots. not for beyond visual range fighting of stealth, otherwise no point in painting them. if their pilot cant see from them in a distance. it also proof they r not sure they can defeat su 57 in beyond visual range distance, so they r exercising for visual range fighting with su 57. stop ur propaganda. 😂😝
 
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lol...dude they themself ans this in their article.

"The new F/A-18E “Red 12” of VFC-12 shows a color scheme sported by the Su-57 prototype nicknamed “White Shark”: it appears to be painted in such a way the silhouette of a Su-57 is seen from distance, a scheme referred to as “Mako”. This reminds what the Russians did on the Su-57 with bort number 053 that, wearing a a special pixelated camouflage on the underside of the aircraft that mimics the plan view shape of the Hunter remotely piloted aircraft, was seen at MAKS 2019".

"Aggressor jets are quite popular for sporting eye-catching paint schemes that replicate the camouflage, markings and insignas of Russian and Chinese combat aircraft, so that pilots in training who come within visual range of these adversary jets get the same sight they would see if they were engaging an actual threat. And, as The Aviationist reported in an exclusive story in September 2020, the F-35 are going to be painted with threat representative color schemes."

they did it with F35 also in 2022:-

mocking enemy aircrafts for different reasons by doing its paint jobs, doesnt mean they think its junk. if its junk, why u hv to do all these exercises etc for that junk fighter....this is mainly used for visual range fighting exercise for their pilots. not for beyond visual range fighting of stealth, otherwise no point in painting them. if their pilot cant see from them in a distance. it also proof they r not sure they can defeat su 57 in beyond visual range distance, so they r exercising for visual range fighting with su 57. stop ur propaganda. 😂😝
Propaganda my ass. The US still simulates training against enemy 4.5gen like su-35, I’m not saying the Su-57 is complete utter garbage. It is however not up to the 5th gen standard. Just because they paint it in camo doesn’t mean it’s for only WVR training, those aircraft with those paint schemes participate in BVR and WVR training, and are put in the specific aggressor squadron for training. If they are performing WVR range for su-57 with hornet, they are using the hornet for BVR as well.

And if the Su-57 was up to 5th gen standard, enough to rival F-22, you think the Indian government would slug it through the mud of delays and cost overruns, but instead in 2018, India left FGFA over concerns of tech transfer, delays, cost, AND they were not confident in it’s capabilities!

Stop your stupidity and realize the su-57 is 5th gen minus at best! And 4.5 gen at worst. Any airforce still trains against 4.5 gen jets because those make up the majority of aircraft globally, but! That does not mean the Su-57 is a competent design.

In the future Indian aerospace will surpass Russia. Going with Su-57 is just a dead end, Russia is stagnating on the world stage. Russia is just trying to trick India into buying 4.5gen garbage and to fund their industry because they are running out of their own money.
 
Propaganda my ass. The US still simulates training against enemy 4.5gen like su-35, I’m not saying the Su-57 is complete utter garbage. It is however not up to the 5th gen standard. Just because they paint it in camo doesn’t mean it’s for only WVR training, those aircraft with those paint schemes participate in BVR and WVR training, and are put in the specific aggressor squadron for training. If they are performing WVR range for su-57 with hornet, they are using the hornet for BVR as well.

And if the Su-57 was up to 5th gen standard, enough to rival F-22, you think the Indian government would slug it through the mud of delays and cost overruns, but instead in 2018, India left FGFA over concerns of tech transfer, delays, cost, AND they were not confident in it’s capabilities!

Stop your stupidity and realize the su-57 is 5th gen minus at best! And 4.5 gen at worst. Any airforce still trains against 4.5 gen jets because those make up the majority of aircraft globally, but! That does not mean the Su-57 is a competent design.

In the future Indian aerospace will surpass Russia. Going with Su-57 is just a dead end, Russia is stagnating on the world stage. Russia is just trying to trick India into buying 4.5gen garbage and to fund their industry because they are running out of their own money.
lol...so now u shift ur points from "junk fighter" to now "not that good 5 genration fighter" 😂. did anyone here is saying su57 is comparable with f35 or f22 raptor? atleast not on paper strength. do chinese j20 or j35 is comparable to f35 or f22 on paper? so why we need F35 level capable fighter (specially when we hv no option). american never provide us source code to integrate our missiles etc. even if they agreed they will not ready to integrate F35 with our other fighters (specially russian) or s400. that mean if we will using F35 on a operation, we hv to neither use our s400 or neither russian fighters. coz they can treat each other enemy assets.
we need limited su 57 (36-40 approx) to counter pakistan upcoming j35. coz we cant counter chinese 200-300 j20 with only some fighters. for that we hv to make AMCA in good numbers. but it will take its sweet time, so we r in hurry to buy a 5 genration fighter. even a half cooked 5 genration like su 57 is good enough to deal with chinese half cooked 5 genration like j20 or j35.
dont think in a 5 genration fighters fight only better stealth technology play its role. beside this sensors, jamming capabilities, bvr missiles quality, pilot capabilities, defensive mechanism like chaff/flair quality etc also play its role for final result.
biggest advantage of buying su57 over f35 is its custom ability nd not interference from its buyer country. previously our IAF was planning to counter chinese aircrafts with rafale. if su 57 proof itself more capable than rafale to IAF, then they should definitely buy it for stop gap.
In su 57 case,,,we can integrate our AMCA technology with it later. we integrate france, some europe nd israeli weapons/system on su 30. so definitely we can integrate other countries weapons nd systems with su57 also, even if we hv no AMCA derivatives of that weapon/system.

america pampers pakistan time to time with IMF loans nd providing them money for different reasons. they r not trust worthy in case of pakistan. coz pakistan is their dog. which they can use against afganistan, iran nd india. so they will never want that pakistan get hardly kicked by indians.
 
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lol...so now u shift ur points from "junk fighter" to now "not that good 5 genration fighter" 😂. did anyone here is saying su57 is comparable with f35 or f22 raptor? atleast not on paper strength. do chinese j20 or j35 is comparable to f35 or f22 on paper? so why we need F35 level capable fighter (specially when we hv no option). american never provide us source code to integrate our missiles etc. even if they agreed they will not ready to integrate F35 with our other fighters (specially russian) or s400. that mean if we will using F35 on a operation, we hv to neither use our s400 or neither russian fighters. coz they can treat each other enemy assets.
we need limited su 57 (36-40 approx) to counter pakistan upcoming j35. coz we cant counter chinese 200-300 j20 with only some fighters. for that we hv to make AMCA in good numbers. but it will take its sweet time, so we r in hurry to buy a 5 genration fighter. even a half cooked 5 genration like su 57 is good enough to deal with chinese half cooked 5 genration like j20 or j35.
dont think in a 5 genration fighters fight only better stealth technology play its role. beside this sensors, jamming capabilities, bvr missiles quality, pilot capabilities, defensive mechanism like chaff/flair quality etc also play its rule for final result.
biggest advantage of buying su57 over f35 is its custom ability nd not interference from its buyer country. previously our IAF was planning to counter chinese aircrafts with rafale. if su 57 proof itself more capable than rafale to IAF, then they should definitely buy it.

america pampers pakistan time to time with IAF nd providing them money for different reasons. they r not trust worthy in case of pakistan. coz pakistan is their dog. which they can use against afganistan, iran nd india. so they will never want that pakistan get hardly kicked by indians.
J-35 might be stealthier than J20 we don't know the progress Chinese have made in RAMs.
Apart from that it will have newer avionics aided with better production capability and better finish only limited by its size being medium fighter.
I don't know how much J-35E will differ from J-35A and Naval J-35 but it may probably be the most stealthy jet America and it's allies will have to face for the next5-8 years.
After that age of sixth gen will begin.
Sixth gens being fielded from all parties.
At least LO jets will be part of every Air Force.
South Korean sixth gen
Japan-UK-Italy GCAP
GCAP
Franco-German FCAS
American F-47
American naval Sixth gen
Chinese will also field two or more types of sixth gen(at least 4 different types are in testing.)
All are expected b/w 2030-2040
 
J-35 might be stealthier than J20 we don't know the progress Chinese have made in RAMs.
Apart from that it will have newer avionics aided with better production capability and better finish only limited by its size being medium fighter.
I don't know how much J-35E will differ from J-35A and Naval J-35 but it may probably be the most stealthy jet America and it's allies will have to face for the next5-8 years.
After that age of sixth gen will begin.
Sixth gens being fielded from all parties.
At least LO jets will be part of every Air Force.
South Korean sixth gen
Japan-UK-Italy GCAP
GCAP
Franco-German FCAS
American F-47
American naval Sixth gen
Chinese will also field two or more types of sixth gen(at least 4 different types are in testing.)
All are expected b/w 2030-2040
fair enough....but still chinese didnt make a 5 genration engine for their j20 nd j35. so even its stealthy, its old engine hv no suppressors for engine heats. nd their radars can be not fully utilised its capability with less power with older copied chinese engines. if radar isnt that powerful, its stealth advantage of come closer to enemy fighters goes down (if enemy fighter hv capable radars nd infrared sensor/EOT).
i dont think except for america, anyone build a 6 genration fighters near 2040. may be chinese build it, but i highly doubt its as capable 6 genration like americans. may be a 5.5 genration fighter.
 
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