Mirage 2000H, MiG-29UPG, Jaguar DARIN III - Medium Multirole Aircraft of IAF

[Shan]

IAF should have signed the MRFA deal with Dassault way back. What's done is done. I look forward to the Rotor partnership btw Safran and HAL for future heavy and light helicopters.

 

[South block]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1853455285786120664

 

[lcafanboy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1853464899403301349

IAF Pilot took MIG 29 for a Spin, quite literally....

 

[_Anonymous_]

2nd Mig-29 UPG crash in 2 months.

I have said time and again.

If the military aircraft has Soviet/Russian design, the only way to gauge the true airframe life of aircraft is by how long the Russian Air Force is using them.

The Russian OEM will issue a 10 year certificate because all it does to them is gives them additional money.

They are selling 0 Mig-29/35s anymore, so a reputation loss is not a problem for them.

It would be Mig-21 Part 2. You won't need to worry about retiring them. If you keep flying them they will fall out and retire themselves before you can decommission them.

The only loser in this would be the occasional death of a pilot.

RN we don't have the luxury of retiring these airframes. Let's hope that this is a case of TF failure which the recently contacted new TFs will rectify.

Our MiG-29s are the joker in the pack in the upcoming war against China. Given the miserable state of affairs in the IAF at present or the immediate future the last thing we can afford is another series of FA whose airframe life is up & is living on borrowed time.

We'd have hell to pay when we go up against China especially w.r.t the IAF , not that we're not going to pay a heavy price as it is.