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Only few technical, financial issues pending on Gorshkov deal Moscow, Feb 21 (PTI) India and Russia have launched experts-level talks to thrash out the "few remaining" technical and financial issues pending on the upgrading of aircraft carrier Gorshkov, a senior Russian official said today. "Hectic efforts are on at all levels to resolve the issue of Gorshkov, which was discussed at the highest political level by President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and now few remaining technical and financial issues are being discussed at experts level," Director of 2nd Asia Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Maryasov said. Defence Secretary Vijay Singh is presently leading a high-level Indian delegation to Russia to carry out physical verification of additional refit work needed on the aircraft carrier to justify additional costs as claimed by Moscow. The 45,000 tonne displacement carrier was to have been delivered by August this year as per a USD 1.5 billion contract signed in 2005 but Russia stunned India in November by demanding an additional USD 1.2 billion for refitting and other works. In a parallel development, RAC MiG Corporation today announced that it will deliver 16 MiG-29K fighters developed for Gorshkov to India by June this year. According to the initial agreement, 12 Fighters(29K) and 4 fighter-trainers(29KUB) were to be deployed on Gorshkov after its induction by the Indian navy as INS Vikramaditya. PTI

Can anyone please post screenies of the MiG-23BN from WoI (on the ground as well as in the air)?

The Navy's fighter wing will anyway be getting a new fighter....in the form of MiG-29K since the Sea Harrier fleet does not have much of life left(less than eight FRS.51s in service now) and the Viraat will be decomissioned soon. Can't believe the Navy was not interested in getting Sea Harrier FRS.2s from Britain.The ADS(INS Vikrant) is slated to received an airwing of MiG-29Ks and Naval LCAs. The plan was to have a prototype Naval LCA ready by the time Gorky arrives in India and to have LCA's carrier trials from the Gorky. But now, with Gorky's future in doubt, God knows what the future holds for the Naval LCA. If(a very big IF at that) the Navy goes in for the Super Hornet for the Kitty Hawk(again IF sold) and the 126 MRCA contract is awarded to Boeing..there will be commonality of weps and airframes between IAF & the IN and not to mention license manufacture in India....maintainence costs should come down?? But the biggest question would be - will these be sanction proof? In 2020, don't want 1/4th of IAF's fighter fleet sitting as hangar queens due to sanctions. For sanction proof after sales support, I say go for the Rafale for the Navy & AF. Also, Gorky would take alteast 5-6 years to be inducted in the IN(looking at the condition it is now). How long would it take to refurbish the Kitty Hawk and get it ready for the Navy? Should be much less. Future IN Fulcrum-D pilots are getting trained on T-45s for carrier operations in the US now. There was good article in a magazine (with pics) of Indian pilots flying the T-45. May be this sudden raising of price for the Gorky is part of the Russian to get back to those glorious old days...have a strong Navy and AIr Force. It probably makes sense fo them to have another carrier with MiG-29Ks in their fleet. Hence all this drama of raising price for a rusting old hulk. Initially they agreed to sell the ship for free, India was to pay for its re-fit,weps and air wing, But now they want a price for the ship itself. Who knows teh Russkies may start blackmailing India by saying" Oh we can sell the Gorky and 29Ks to Pakis." Now that would really upset the Balance of Power in the region. But the question is where would the Pakis hide the carrier in face of a full scale assault from Martime Strike 30 Sqdn SU-30MKIs. They are chopping their own legs if the deal falls through. ALgerians are returning their MIG-29s and now if the Gorky deals falls through, Russians would have a tough time convicing other traditional clients that they are reliable suppliers.

Thanks. Was really hoping for a MiG-21FL in WoI(for obvious reasons ) some consolation though...there's a MiG-23BN in WoE...the a/c that the IAF employs in dedicated Wild Weasel role .

Marcelo made a PL-12 model to go with his J-11

Is there a MiG-21FL in WoI ?

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autom...ode=sst&id=6068 File Name: MiG-21UM of No. 101 Sqdn IAF "Falcons" - Desert camo skin File Submitter: ghostrider883 File Submitted: 21 Feb 2008 File Category: Indian Air Force and Navy Skins File Version: No Information Website: No Information MiG-21UM Desert camo Skin No. 101 Sqdn Indian AF "Falcons" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skin for Florian's excellent MiG-21UM model. Its a repaint of Florian's original Plain silver skin. Just drop the 101sq_IAF folder to your MiG-21UM folder and you would be set. ---------- Credits ----------- Amokfloo - for the excellent model and a base silver skin to work this skin on Paladrian - for the superb MiG-21UM pit. Many thanks to USAFMTL for creating a dedicated section here at CA for the Indian AF & Navy. Sandesh "ghostrider883" Kanchan February 21, 2008 Click here to download this file

File Name: MiG-21UM of No. 24 Sqdn IAF "Hawks" File Submitter: ghostrider883 File Submitted: 21 Feb 2008 File Category: Indian Air Force and Navy Skins File Version: No Information Website: No Information MiG-21UM Worn out skin No. 24 Sqdn Indian AF "Hawks" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Skin for Florian's excellent MiG-21UM model. Its a repaint of Florian's original Plain silver skin. Just drop the 24sq_IAF folder to your MiG-21UM folder and you would be set. ---------- Credits ----------- Amokfloo - for the excellent model and a base silver skin to work this skin on Paladrian - for the superb MiG-21UM pit. Sandesh "ghostrider883" Kanchan February 21, 2008 Click here to download this file

Should be earnest, I feel. A possible typo.

No. 101 Sqdn IAF "Falcons" No. 24 Sqdn IAF "Hawks" Will upload these here soon. Many thanks to Florian for the 21UM and Mago for th excellent pit . More to come......So many sqdns of the IAF that operated/are operating the trainer

Awesome work Marcelo I will send the Hindi letters soon.

It was an old MiG-21M from No.37 sqdn.

Very, very nice marcelo. any chance of you doing an IAF skin? IAF Mi-8/17s have 'Indian Air Force' painted on one side and its hindi equivalent 'Bharatiya Vayu Sena'(in Hindi) on the other side. If you are interested, i can get the hindi version in psd format and send it over to you.

This was simply brilliant of you florian. Can now have matching gunpod textures to the skin.

Think this is going to be great kukolino. If it works out, the pit mod can be used to update the Iaf type s-22 fitter mod. It needs a revision anyway.

Nice work soulfreak.

Thank you. Its an honour for me :-) Expect a few additions to the section soon.

Thanks Dave & Sag. Was thrilled to see a seperate section for the IAF/IN. Great work. :-)

gepard, as you may know, india's victory in the 1971 war lead to the creation of Bangladesh(formerly east pakistan). So, how about this? Instead of creating a indo-pak map concentrating on the western (kashmir regiön), how about a map of east pakistan and surrounding indian airbases. It should be a relatively smaller map to build? Agreed it would be a mismatch 1 PAF Sabre Mk.6 sqdn against Iaf's eastern air command.The INS vikrant & her escorts can be added to this theater. Lots of fictional...well almost... themes possible. USN 6TH fleet & PLAAF coming to pakistan's aid, Russia coming to india's aid.

Skin for A-Team's HF-24 Mk.1 Marut. Posted here , should be up soon. pack contains a hf-24 pdf, correct finflash, hf-24drop tanks, updated loadouts and a modified skin Many thanks to Wrench for granting me permission to post this skin and to capun for bringing this bird into SF world :clapping:

campaign? I just made the skins and did research.

i actually missed reading this thread. Looking at the forum through the tiny screen of my mobile doesn't help things. Sorry to hear about your loss. I know what it feels like to lose a pet that's almost like family member. HF-24s were not painted with any sqdn markings or any camo.