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AF General advises India to pick F-16 over F-18
- Thread starter snake020
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They might ... but I don't worry too much ... I keep eyes clear and my powder dry, instead.
Any time I hear "right to XXX" the next words out of my mouth are usually "unable." ATC gets sick of me turning left the long way every time.
Yes they are. I should know, as I have covered some of the duties of my bud who is over in india right now on a roadshow.
Road show to India = "good deal"? Not on your life dude. India is one of the absolutely worst locations on the globe!
Now a road show to Australia = absolutely "great deal"!
Now a road show to Australia = absolutely "great deal"!
TrunkMonkey
Spy Navy
The Indian Navy flies the Sea Harrier, and will to continue to do so because of its VSTOL carrier. I think what they are referring to is AF-AF commonality.
They will be flying Mig-29's and Flankers as well being they bought the Russian Carrier...whatever it's called. My cohort at NETSAFA is CAPT Gupta, the Indian Navy liason who was a Sea Harrier Pilot. The only fixed wing foriegn pilots going through Whiting right now are the Indians and he said this batch of students are all Flanker bound. Of course this info is completely worthless to this discussion. I'm done
Must be nice to go through Primary knowing you're gonna select jets . . .The only fixed wing foriegn pilots going through Whiting right now are the Indians and he said this batch of students are all Flanker bound. Of course this info is completely worthless to this discussion. I'm done
At the same time given the number of problems that have leaked out about the Indian Flankers (not to mention the ones that didnt) it cant be that great.
What problems, I haven't heard about serious problems. Are you thinking of their MiG-21's? They are infamous for their horrible crash rate. Can you provide any links?
The one Indian stud I went through ground school with said they still have to get jet grades via the Navy cutoffs. If they do, they get the Flanker, if not, he said it's kind of up in the air. So it's not entirely guaranteed.
This is true. They still have to meet the 50 NSS criteria to make it through. Capt Gupta just sent an Indian student home for not making the grade. Of course it still has to be nice knowing if you make the cut, you know exactly what you're going to fly. The Indians have a bit of an advantage when going primary being they go through primary in India as well. When they get to advanced out here, they tend to do a bit worse that our average student going through the Strike pipeline....as I'm told by Capt Gupta.
Apparently they've been having some of the same teething problems that anyone would expect with standing up a new Aircraft in service, but they have been having more problems then any previous customer of the same aircraft. They actually refused to accept a batch of Flankers from Russia after the previous batch had severe engine problems and operational shortfalls. I remember reading some blirp on it from an aviation Rag and I want to say it was Combat Aircraft, but till I track it down Im not gonna sell off on any links that come from just a quick google seach of forums.