Indian Air Force: News & Discussions

[Binayak95]

How dare the ACM say what is the truth. HAL has been lying from day one. when GE said in the contract they can deliver 3 - 4 engines a year because the line is shut down and that it would take 2 years - 3 years before full rate production, what business did HAL have promising 24 aircraft a year.

FFS, they have 7-8 engines from the reserve, why the hell arent those Mk1As in IAF hands? because they are not ready.
Astra integration is pending. Python integration is pending. A2G tests are pending. Heck, it was only this week or last that mid air refueling got validated. Lazy jackasses at HAL are letting down the extremely impressive hard work done by the few.

Even DHRUV. For 6 years you knew the control rods will fail, what exactly did you do?

why should either of the 4 services that operate it risk the lives of their men AFTER knowing that HAL fucked around?

Believe me there are several skeletons yet to tumble out of the HAL closet. Including money and other gifts from certain slavic peoples.

 

[shade2]

As of today:

* PAF fields more number of fighter jets than IAF's Western, South-Western & Central air commands combined.

* The PAF has more fighter pilots in absolute numbers than these 3 commands combined. & overall the fighter pilot ratio of PAF:IAF is at an all time low of 3:4.

PAF fields 156 JF-17 with more on order
Certain Junk Fighters are receiving upgrades of AESA radar and BVR missiles from Chings too..

IAF playing games of IOC, FOC, not-mk1a-because-one-missile-wasnt-launched etc with Tejas.


IN meanwhile has no paucity in quantity and quality of ships vs PN
It's because they have been designing and building their own stuff since the late 70s

PN is now AAAAH I'M IMPOORTING Ching and Turkan ships, they placed an order for 8 Mard -e- Chowmein AIP subs in a vain effort to do equal-equal with IN surface fleet in ~2015 but as of writing not even one of these subs have been delivered

At some point we will have to fight China, and piecemeal gold-plated imports won't help there, but still they haven't learnt any lessons, Tejas is the red-headed step-child forced upon by the GoI even today and they still lust after Gold-Plated import du jure.

They have to internalize that part of their war fighting duties is preparing for war, which for a country of our size and facing an adversary like China means domestic design and production of platforms and weapons, they can't keep on playing the current "pass the file" games and chai-biscoot sessions with their IAS and -Minister counterparts any longer.

 

[Spitfire IX]

How dare the ACM say what is the truth. HAL has been lying from day one. when GE said in the contract they can deliver 3 - 4 engines a year because the line is shut down and that it would take 2 years - 3 years before full rate production, what business did HAL have promising 24 aircraft a year.

FFS, they have 7-8 engines from the reserve, why the hell arent those Mk1As in IAF hands? because they are not ready.

I have more confidence in what you say than in what HAL says.