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guys, any chance of this?

Looks very nice.

It may have. But no records suggest that F-86s flew in that particular scheme during the wars. BTW, is thar Mirage III in the background an "E" with e PAF skin?

NOt sure of any blue scheme. In the 1965 & 71 wars, all PAF F-86Fs flew with their bare metal scheme. The PAF acquired ex-Luftwaffe Sabre Mk.6s after the 1965 war, They sported grey/green camo. SOme F-86Fs had brown patterns painted on them in the 1971 war.

nice pics lindr2, our 29Ks will look similar as well.

mppd is talking about this : MIrage IIIRP PAF.

Nice work Aleducat. Engine is GE F-404IN. In this pic , you can see the gun port on the bottom of the starboard intake with will house the Gsh-23 cannon

Probably the F-18's or Gripen's pit would be a good stand in. Actual cockpit picture OF LCA-Tejas PV-3

I am definitely interested in seeing it fly in the game. Please make one.

corrupted download, possibly. Re-download.

Thanks a lot for sharing your templates SD . Just the thing to get me skinning again . Expect an Indian AF MiG-29 skin invasion in the near future Your 47 Sqdn skin rocks!!!!!!!!!! Thanks & Cheers SD :good:

The last IAF squadron that was flying the MiG-23BN was No. 221 "Valiants" . I have their sqdn history book titled "Valiant to the last".

Just one sqdn was flying the MiG-23BN and apparently it had only six airworthy MiG-23BNs on the flight line. All former MIG-23BNs converted to MiG-27M much earlier. The Sqdn will probably convert to another fighter type pr be nameplated an re-raised again.. An interesting tidbit....the No. 224 "Warlords" which flew the air defence MiG-23MF until 2005 converted to ground attack role with the upgraded Jaguar IS/IBs. No.221 could do this as well.

The MiG-27M replaced the MiG-23BN in IAF service as well. The MiG-23BN was selected to replace the Su-7BMK. In December 1980, the first of 90+ MiG-23BNs were inducted in IAF. The No. 10 "Winged Daggers" sqdn was the first MiG-23BN unit. No.31"Lions" , No. 220 "Desert Tigers" and No.221 "Valiants" followed suit. Another SU-7 unit - No. 222 'Tigersharks" were supposed to convert to the MiG-23BN when the MiG-27 was selected for license production in India. No. 10 Sqdn became the first MiG-23BN to convert to MiG-27 after a relatively short period of flying MiG-23BNs. No. 31 converted to 27 soon after. However The 221 Sqdn continued to fly the 23BN till now.

Thank you TMF. The release of the MiG-29 made me re-install SF and fly it. Now, I got to find wpnssgt's F-16 BLK 10 PAF and do this: :biggrin: Going to have many happy hours hunting F-16s with MiG-29, specially with Sundowner' beautiful No.47 Sqdn IAF skin

The "Early' Su-30K lacked true precision guided munition capability. The second batch Su-30K had limited precision striek capability. I have no idea how "limited" its PGM capability was. With a Hawks skin?

Yeah. It was actually the MiG-23BN that HAL was supposed to license manufacture in India. But India went to acquire license & manufacture the MiG-27M as the "Bahadur" in India. However, the BNs which were fitted with countermeasure dispensers first. The 221 sqdn was IAF's dedicated Wild Weasel sqdn. The MiG-23BNS were the first fighters(along with MIG-21s) which dropped bombs on Pak positions in the 1999 Kargil War.

Joining an elite club of nations capable of building large warships, India began the construction of its first indigenous aircraft carrier at the Cochin Shipyard here and will go in for 2 to 3 more carriers in the heavier class. Pressing a remote to lower the keel -- the ship's backbone -- into the construction dock of the shipyard, Defence Minister A K Antony said, "The Navy's carrier will showcase India's technological prowess and warships' building capabilities to the world. It will be the largest ever warship to be built in India." The 40,000-tonne carrier will operate nearly 30 aircraft including the Russian MiG-29Ks fighters, Kamov-31 helicopters and the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). "This is a crucial milestone and an occasion to cherish in the shipbuilding traditions and maritime history of the nation. The culmination of this prestigious project, sometime in 2014, will transform India into an aircraft-building nation," Antony said. He said that India will certainly produce more indigenous aircraft carrier, but in the heavier class category to meet the future challenges and needs of maritime security. "We hope to operate two to three aircraft carriers simultaneously in the not too distant future," Antony said.

INAS 300 "White Tigers" will continue to fly the Sea Harrier off the Viraat and may be even the Vikramaditya. Some of the remaining airframes(FRS.51s) have been upgraded in what was called as "Limited Sea Harrier Upgrade"(LSUH) Programme. They have been fitted with EL/M-2032 radar, making the Harrier capable of firing the Rafael Derby BVRAAM. When the Viraat completes her refit, we could well see these upgraded Sea Harrier FRS.51s on her deck. The White Tigers may even end up fly ing the Naval LCA Tejas, the prototype of which will be flying by middle of this year. There was a painting somewhere of the Naval LCA in White Tigers markings/. As for the renaming tradition, the Indian Navy has Royal Navy roots and was known as the Royal Indian Navy uptil 1950, as was the Air Force. The ships of the RIN were titled HMIS Tir, Cauvery etc.

Nice work . Really looking forward to this and doing this:

It certianl yis . The 29K & 29KUB will form the fighter wing of INS Vikramaditya( former Admiral Gorshkov) and the number of MiG-2(K squadron will be INAS 303.

So far only two carriers have served with the Navy. First was INS Vikrant which served from 1961 to 1997 and second is INS Viraat which joined the Navy in 1987 and is currently undergoing a refit in Cochin. The re-fitted ex-RU Navy helicopter carrier Admiral Gorshkov was renamed as INS Vikramaditya and will be joining the Navy in 2012. No ship was named as Vikramaditya in the past though. Such re-naming of ships have been done in the past. For e.g. the INS Khukri was a Blackwood class Frigate which was sunk in the 1971 war by a Pakistani submarine. Today, the INS Khukri is a Type 25 ASW Corvette. Most of the ships is active service are repetitions of the past.

Thing is that the Indian AF wants a two seat version while Russia is developing a single seat version.

Just one ski-jump for launching MiG-29Ks or Naval LCAs.

SL cricketers injured in terror attack This could very well have been the Indian cricket team. After the mumbai attacks, India cancelled its tour to Pakistan and Sri Lanka chose to go to Pakistan instead.