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Instead of being so negative and sarcastic,Stick, may be it would be better to applaud the efforts of our scientists? Do you even know of the difficulties HAL/ADA/RDRO had to face?? You don't, I am sure, yet you insult the aircraft!!!!! Inspite of all the negativity, not a single one has crashed so far, has it? Yes, it has taken time and it will take more time, but it needs to be supported, not mocked at!!!!! Not many countries can boast of indigenous supersonic fighters. Count them- USA, Russia France, Sweden, UK/Germany/Italy/Spain, Pak/China(sort of). While it may easy to curse the aircraft, which has sadly become a fashion today, no one realises how much of work and effort has gone into bringing the LCA to its current standards. The LCA now has Israeli EL/M-2032 MMR( ok, its not an AESA), not long before it becomes capable of firing BVR missiles, has already dropped LGBs. yet you call it dated? You don't need friggin' F-22s to take on the pakistan!!!! Maybe you forget, it is supposed to be "light", like what the Gnat's role was in the 1960s and 70s. The Indian Air Force or the Navy are not a bunch of idiots to bank so heavily on the LCA, are they? I suggest you read Air Marshal Phil Rajkumar's book on the LCA. In spite of all the odds, the LCA flies today and hopefully it will one day in its Mk.1 or Mk.2 variant, serve in frontline IAF/IN squadrons. No. 45 Sqdn has already been earmarked to be the first LCA squadron. Hopefully, more MiG-21 squadrons will convert to LCAs soon.

File Name: No.26 Sqdn Indian AF "Warriors MiG-21bis(Type 75) skin File Submitter: ghostrider883 File Submitted: 26 April 2012 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Skins No.26 Sqdn Indian AF "Warriors MiG-21bis(Type 75) skin Skin for paulopanz's Indian AF MiG-21bis mod( available here: http://combatace.com/files/file/10593-iaf-mig-21bis-vikram/) representing No. 26 Sqdn "Warriors" Indian AF. Installation *REQUIRES paulopanz's Indian AF MiG-21bis mod Drop contents of the folder in your mod folder. Credits: paulopanz for the Indian AF MiG-21bis mod. Wrench for giving us the Indo-Pak terrain to fly these birds on. Sandesh "ghostrider883" Kanchan ghostrider883@gmail.com April 26, 2012 Click here to download this file

No.26 Squadron Indian Air Force, "Warriors" MiG-21bis.

File Name: MiG-21bis Type 75 Indian AF skin pack File Submitter: ghostrider883 File Submitted: 25 April 2012 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Skins MiG-21bis Type 75 Indian AF skin pack Contains two skins - No. 3 Sqdn "Cobras" & slightly modified version oif Paulo's IAF Grey skin Installation *Requires paulo's MiG-21bis IAF mod. Also included an alternate data.ini( deleting the odd rod antennas) to make it look more like a dedicated India MiG-21bis Drop contents of the file to your mod folder. Thanks to Paulo for making the IAF MiG-21bis mod & to Wrench for his Herculean efforts in making the Indo-Pak mod possible . Sandesh "ghostrider883" Kanchan ghostrider883@gmail.com April 25,2012 Click here to download this file

Paulo's Indian AF MiG-21bis mod available here: http://combatace.com/files/file/10593-iaf-mig-21bis-vikram/

File Name: Type 77 MiG-21FL(Indian AF) three skin pack File Submitter: ghostrider883 File Submitted: 23 April 2012 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Skins MiG-21FL Type 77 Indian AF skin pack -------------------------------------- Skins for Wrench & paulopanz's Indian Air Force Type 77 MiG-21FL(Early & Late) mods. Installation You need the Type 77 mod available here: http://combatace.com/files/file/12174-type-77type-77-late-fishbed-iaf/ Extract contents of the file to your mod folder. Sandesh "ghostrider883" Kanchan ghostrider883@gmail.com April 24,2012 Click here to download this file

Excellent work Russo . Love that last shot. I better start putting together a real world serial numbers list of Indian Hawks .

Great work Regaridng those Indian Mirages, just add "Reverse=TRUE" for the starboard finflash decal and you are all set. On all IAF a/c, the green part of the IAF finflash always points towards the cockpit.

Very nice Russo . Looking at those Red Arrows Mk.128s screenies, posting something related to it. The IAF's aerobatic team, which flew the HAL HJT-16 Kiran Mk.II previously, will soon be converting to Hawk Mk.132s.

I agree with Jimbib, the nose does seem a little longer in the drawing. Here's another pic of the nose:

This may be of help to you Wrench, You may use this in your hangar screen. There is one painting in colour where the Alize is depicted as splashing into the Arabian sea with the PAF F-104A flying by. I had saved in on my home PC. WIll try to find it.

Veltro, How about an Indian Navy No. 310 Sqdn "Cobras" skin for this beauty?

Nice work Veltro

The Indian AF had tried integrating the R-27 to the Mirage 2000H and weren't successful. May be its just for display and make people scratch theri heads how Iran was able to do it. How are they going to integrate the R-27's guidance to the Tomcat's radar?

Really looking forward to this Veltro .

On behalf of the Indo-Pak Mod team , I would like to post a request for a particular a/c, if anyone is interested in making one. This is the only major a/c that's missing for the sim. The aircraft is the Breguet Alizé. It flew with the Indian Navy primarily as a anti-ship/anti-submarine aircraft on board the Navy's carrier, INS Vikrant and was flown by INAS 310 "Cobras". In the 1965 war, the aircraft flew several reconaissance missions along the border, when the Vikrant was undergoing repairs. It was the 1971 war, where it saw lots action,flying several strike missions off the Vikrant against targets in East Pakistan. A detachment of Alizes was based in Western India, where they flew several ant-submarine missions. During one of these missions, during hunt for the PN sub that sunk the frigate INS Khukri, an Alize was shot down as depicted in this painting- of Wg Cdr Arif Iqbal shooting down an Alize. The moment records the death of three crewmen in the Alize - Lt Cdr Ashok Roy, Lt H S Sirohi and PO Vijayan. If anyone's interested, I have a detailed 3-views of the aircraft.

Reporting for duty, saa' . I will have a lookie in my copy of Fiza'ya for PAF A-5 serials. But I see Paulo has it covered. Paulo, excellent work mate. The skins(espcially PAF & BAF) look . Keep up the great work .

After a never ending wait, the Dassault Rafale has been chosen over the Eurofighter as IAF's next Multirole combat aircraft. Dassault turned out to be the lowest bidder.

Alejandro, That is just

Happy Birthday

Thanks a lot guys

Alejandro, the Tejas in its current status is a bit different than the one you have modeled. You probably modeled the initial model. The Tejas that has received Initial Operational Clearance hand the one that will go into IAF service soon has an intake duct near the spot where the tail fin meets the spine: