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No. Rafale has taken the sole space available for a foreign fighter. MMRCA or not MMRCA, Rafale will be ordered.
‘Spend more, spend fast’ — Rajnath’s direction to armed forces ahead of mid-term budget review
Over the last week, the defence ministry has inked contracts worth about Rs 30,000 crore for procurement of transport aircraft and tanks.
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‘Spend more, spend fast’ — Rajnath’s direction to armed forces ahead of mid-term budget review
Over the last week, the defence ministry has inked contracts worth about Rs 30,000 crore for procurement of transport aircraft and tanks.theprint.in
We are already catching up with 2022.
It's too less. Our geography is bigger than France's and we share our borders with both enemies. You have to consider that Rafale is not a magic plane, one plane can't operate in two places at once, nor is it so fast that it can cover 1000Km in 5 minutes. Then you also have to consider the potential damage that the enemy can do on the ground, hence the need to disperse the squadrons over a wide area and that needs numbers too.
You forget that while the Rafale is better than the MKI, the Chinese have gone much further than the MKI already. So we will need to match their local strength in a near 1:1 basis.
These calculations were done after 1965 Indo-Pak war. They need to be revised now considering the increase in the strength of PLAAF. I will go for 60 sqns."42 sqns were calculated to be adequate to take care of two front war in 1967..."
It seems to me that it is not peacetime that determines the number of aircraft in a squadron
Right now, the official request is 45 squadrons. Also due to the introduction of superior aircraft, mig-air refuelling, SAMs, upcoming drones, transfer of some roles to helicopters etc, the need for 60 squadrons isn't there anymore. For example, more modern aircraft have 3x or 4x or even more on-station time compared to older jets like the Mig-21, the most predominant aircraft when the requirement for 60 squads was created, so the number of jets needed for air defence and air support has reduced considerably. And with swing role and the ability to escort themselves, the number of jets required for strike missions has also reduced.
I came to this figure based on the long range bombers and other such long legged assets created by PLAAF in last decade. They did not have them in 1967. We are dealing with a much highly evolved PLAAF now
Inceased number of aircraft will allow us to interdict them much farther away and also put more aircraft in air which will help us intercept missiles fired by them.
So you think the two-front nuclear-armed threat perception and lack of quantity is a none issue.
Has your air force ever done a high-tempo operation in the last 30 years? Do you understand the concept?
Are all other airforce stupid to add mostly one-on-one replacement? From USAF to Japan.
Because it would be more difficult to slip past. Also, I am not sure modern air forces are really taking into account threats to air bases. Chances are, a lot of the aircraft will be lost on the ground in the opening stages of the war.
They don't have Rafale.
The Rafale was explicitly developed to replace 7 aircraft types in the French Air Force and the 152 Rafales that are operational replace 593 aircraft. At the time of its introduction it was thought that it would take around 300 Rafales to replace all our aircraft but experience has shown that 225 will suffice. The current plans are therefore to retire our remaining Mirage 2000s (all other fighter types have been replaced) by 2032 and replace them with a smaller number of Rafales.
Despite these replacements the French Air Force has never been stronger. It is unquestionably the strongest in Europe and can even afford to sell second-hand aircraft.
Yes Lybia.
From the Charles-de-Gaulle for Rafale M and from CRETE and CORSICA for French Air Force Rafale
I was thinking that numbers can be surmounted by more flight time and more alternate means of increasing weapons loads.
So let's assume we are in 2040, so we are still some ways away from achieving 42 squadrons, and many of our jets have been given an optionally manned capability. Today, when we send out two jets on CAP, they last 2-3 hours on-station, and can be extended by another 2-3 hours through mid-air refuelling, beyond which human limits step in and the jets are forced to land. However, with unmanned capability and buddy refuelling using tanker drones, a 2-flight CAP can stay in the air practically indefinitely, like a Rafale/AMCA should easily be able to do a 16-hour CAP when human limits aren't a factor.
Furthermore, the jets do not even have to expend their own weapons loads. All we need is ground launchers, not fully-equipped SAMs, but just launchers with different types of missiles datalinked to the fighter jets. So the jets can kill enemy missiles with ground launched missiles cued by fighter radars. This way, merely 4-8 jets on rotation in a single area can run CAP missions for 16 hours each while unloading an unlimited amount of missiles on the enemy.
This system will even allow us to engage ballistic missiles.
Long time no see.
In India's case, our air bases will be heavily defended with a multi-tier SAM system, no different from AEGIS ships. So the most important bases will have long range, medium range and short range missiles, while less important bases will at least have medium and short range or just short range missiles. You should already know about the S-400, with options for ultra-long, long, medium and short range, and apparently more are planned. Then there are Indian equivalents, VL-Astra Mk2 (250Km), MRSAM (100Km) / Akash NG (70Km) / Akash Mk1/S (25-30Km) and SPYDER (up to 15Km) / VL-Astra Mk1 (up to 20Km). We have pretty big plans for an IADS.
So none. You do not even have an idea what that means.
It means generating thousands of sorties in a day. Numbers are required when you are facing adversaries which can field capable fighters. During OP Gagan Shakti the entire fleet was at 80% availability and it involved 1000+ aircraft and 10,000+ sorties in 13 days.
Bombing Lybia or some African country with a nonexistent air defense system is not an achievement in this part of the world.
India’s stunning exercise Gagan Shakti shows how force can be used without war to deter adversaries
For some strange and inexplicable reason however, the Indian media totally blanked out this exercise. For all those 13 days the focus was exclusively on rape.
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Come on, there are some limits to PR. Rafale is not a unicorn. Its just another overpriced fighter.
If this is an axiom for you it is clear that no amount of demonstration will convince you of its exceptional qualities, so I wonder why you ask questions.
So none. You do not even have an idea what that means.
It means generating thousands of sorties in a day. Numbers are required when you are facing adversaries which can field capable fighters. During OP Gagan Shakti the entire fleet was at 80% availability and it involved 1000+ aircraft and 10,000+ sorties in 13 days.
Bombing Lybia or some African country with a nonexistent air defense system is not an achievement in this part of the world.
India’s stunning exercise Gagan Shakti shows how force can be used without war to deter adversaries
For some strange and inexplicable reason however, the Indian media totally blanked out this exercise. For all those 13 days the focus was exclusively on rape.
Come on, there are some limits to PR. Rafale is not a unicorn. Its just another overpriced fighter.
Sir , you have talked about Gagan Shakti Sorties , But have you also Ever Considered the Losses that IAF would face in the ABSENCE of RAFALE
Rafale , Meteor and Spectra would do for us what Su 30 will otherwise Have to do after suffering losses and Casualties
Rafale would be used for Achieving Complete Air Superiority because it would knock out the AWACS and its Escorts
If we devote 18 Rafales of Ambala against PAF and they manage to down 36 PAF planes on Day 1 , the battle is over
Thereafter These 18 Rafales can also be deployed against China
Rafale is the best fighter we have..
Chosen as the better among 6.
I am highly sceptical whether there will be flying Super sukhoi within next 5 years .
Or we are going in for any other fighters in this decade.