He is now with HAL and about to retire. He is 66th course NDA from my squadron Delta.
As she comes in for landing :
Hits the deck at latches on to the hook :
Hits the deck at latches on to the hook :
Yes, you didn't get the new yet ? Go to the previous page, everything has been posted there.
N-LCA is supposed to take off from Vicky too.
This is a pretty tremendous achievement.
It's our own original design. Even the Chinese are yet to accomplish this.
Look at the body angle of the aircraft and compare it to that of Mig-29K. Notice the high nose wheel at the time of touchdown. This is what happens when you have high sweepback on the wings.
Sir Is that a Good thing or Bad
BTW With 4 Derbys and One Anti Ship Kh 31 Missile , it can be used for Operations
High nose wheel angle is a bad thing. Notice that it hardly has any flaps while landing which can provide the lower nose attitude.
Regarding the loadout, will it be able to go with such a load? if yes, how far?
Sir , We lost Recently a MIG 29 K
Even if it flies 400 KM
Combat Radius of LCA is 500 km
it will be a useful to
Repel JF 17s which will definitely try to target Indian Navy Frontline Destroyers
In the North Arabian sea
Then Next Year INS Vikrant will be Ready
We can try to have AESA equipped MK 1A as a Stop Gap arrangement till 57 new
Planes ,That NAVY wants are available
BTW , 57 Rafale-- M look impossible given
the budgetary constraints
Next they will be looking at the useful Load and max Combat Radius that can be achieved
The Sea Harriers also had Elta 2032 Radar
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Pakistan wants to Get Long Range JH 7 from China and Deploy them in ORMARA
And PASNI
From there they can take off to target Naval
Warships and Coastal Areas in Gujarat
Any aerial threats from Pak through seas is well covered . Pune has Su30MKIs and Jamnagar has Mig29UPG along with Jaguars capable of firing Harpoon.
We have resources in place to take care , even if they manage to get J11 derivative.
LCA Naval is turning out to be a good technology demonstrator. We should use this opportunity to train our team of developers , collet data. Certify systems and weapons .
Navy has limited resources, it should be used carefully.
Anyways hopefully CDS will come up with defined roles for each service. IN should get full responsibility for A&N command supported by Amphibious Army units.
While Air Superiority throughout Indian Airspace should remain IAFs responsibility.
Details of the mission today and what lies ahead :
Please read the whole thread.
Please read the whole thread.
Pilot skill is of no use in this as the arresting the wire causes the nose to derotate rapidly and slam down on the deck. This is a drawback of all designs which have high sweepback angles and tailless design.
According to Vishnu NDTV, deadline for landing on deck of INS Vikramaditya is six months from September 2019. But engineers , scientists and test pilots of HAL, ADA did it within 4 months. Congratulations to all of them
I dont see the the twin engine version being too different. Even with canards/flaps the rafale M slams onto the deck pretty hard however i could not find any info on how that affects air frame life and payload.
With each decklanding the airframe life is reduced by a multiplication factor compared to landing on shore.