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Looking forward to it.

MiG-21MF of No.7 Sqdn taxiing past MiG-21bis of No. 24 Sqdn Downing a PAF F-6C

Indian Navy's aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya( ex-Soviet Navy Adm. Gorshkov) left for sea trials yesterday. She will undergo extensive sea trials for four months (including launch/recovery of her air wing), before being handed over to the Indian Navy by December 2012( in time for Indian Navy Day - December 04) INS Vikramaditya starts sea trials

The INS Vikramaditya has reached here new home. Sailing with INS Viraat and her battle group

File Name: Indian Air Force Hawker Hunter F.56, F.56A mod for SF2 full merged File Submitter: ghostrider883 File Submitted: 14 August 2012 File Category: Hunter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Indian Air Force Hawker Hunter F.56, F.56A mod for SF2 full merged ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawker Hunter fighter bomber variants as used by the Indian Air Force . Package does not contains any aircraft or Cockpit LODs. The pack has been tested on a full merge install ( SF2, SF2E,SF2V, SF2I, Exp Pack 1, Exp pack 2, SF2NA). May not work properly on other installs( will atleast need SF2E to work) Package contains skins and decals to represent all Indian Air force Hawker F.56 and F.56A Squadrons. Actual Indian AF Hunter Serial number & squadron decals included(selectable in the loadout screen). IAF Hunter F.56 - RAF Hunter F.6 IAF Hunter F.56A - RAF Hunter FGA.9 Aircraft Textures are in jpeg format to represent following Indian Air Force Hunter squadrons. No. 7 Squadron "Battle Axes" No. 14 Squadron "Bulls" No. 17 Squadron "Golden Arrows" No. 20 Squadron "Lightnings" No. 27 Squadron "Flaming Arrows" No. 37 Squadron "Black Panthers" No. 122 ad-hoc Hunter squadron(Battle of Longewala fame) Hunter Operational Conversion Unit Target Tug Flight " The Banners" This mod is meant as an addon specifically for the Indo-Pak mod and is meant to be an improvement of Paulo Panz's excellent IAF Hunter mods( to bring the loadouts and other features upto latest patch standards). The biggest change is that the Hunter now able to carry 25 & 60-lb rocket projectiles( something which Indian Hunters did frequently on strike missions). ---------------------- Installation -------------------- This is assuming that you have the Indo-Pak mod installed. Since this shall be a complete replacement for the IAF Hunter variants, please either back up or delete Hunter F56 and Hunter56A folders in the aircraft & decals folder. Then drop the contents of the file in your X:\Users\YYYY\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2XX folder and let it overwrite --------------- Credits : -------------- Thirdwire- for the Hunter model and cockpit Diego - Pilot PauloPanz - for the original IAF Hunter mods. Wrench, the ini master, for his support, encouragement and solving a few issues I was facing with the loadouts Sundowner for sharing his excellent 2048X2048 templates for the Hunter. Skins were updated using his templates. Credit for the new skins goes to him. ghostrider883, Paulopanz - Skins & Decals. The mod is meant as a tribute to the beautiful Hawker Hunter and the brave Indian Air Force Hunter pilots. Sandesh "ghostrider883" Kanchan January 04,2014 Click here to download this file

Now updated with high res skins using Sundowner's 2048X2048 skin templates.

For those of us interested in the Indo-Pak Air wars. http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Books/Projects/1143-Eagles-Over-Bangladesh.html Got my copy yesterday. Here in India, we have only the Paperback version

IAF Hunter F.Mk.56As wrecking havoc on Paki bases

Western Front book is in the works as per the Jagan;s posts on FB. Considering the amount of effort and research put into getting this book out and the amount of mission details written in the book, the next book on the western front should be very good, as most air battles took place on the western front.

With thanks to Sundowner for his great Hunter templates

Unlike the 1965 book, the is book focuses on IAF operations in the eastern sector only. MiG-21FL v/s F-104 encounters took place on the western front.

NIce work Comrad. Can you please try & make a skin with english stencils, it will go well with Indian AF skins.

The MiG-21FL flies into history after providing nearly 50 years of stellar service to the nation. Some of the MiG-21FLs that flew in the 1971 war were still lying with the MiG Operational Flying Traning Unit. MiG-21FL s/n C754 was a F-104 killer that was in service with MOFTU.

Great work Rafale team!!!!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/so-a-python-didnt-actually-eat-a-drunk-guy-in-india

Inspite of knowing the truth about the 65, 71 & 99 Indo-Pak wars, the US chose to impose sanctions on India. The LCA Tejas Project was almost crippled because of US sanctions, the Sea King fleet too was gounded because of sanctions. In case we go to war with Pakis tomorrow, can the Air Force or the Navy afford to have its fighter fleet grounded because of US sanctions? Our country won the 65, 71 & 99 wars using Russian, British & French equipment, to us they are reliable enough in battle and worked as advertised. MiG-29K, junk jets? like the Su-30MKI, it too is a capable multirole fighter...they should be more than a match for our adversaries.

The Indian Navy commissioned the 44,520 tonne INS Vikramaditya(R33) on 16 November 2013. Her CO is Commodore Suraj Berry and she will soon begin her 60 day Journey to India. Can't wait to see IN MiG-29Ks, Helixs and Sea Kings on her deck. Air Wing Squadron crests(left to right): INAS 333 "Eagles" operating Ka-28 INAS 339 'Falcons" operating Ka-31 INAS 303 "Black Panthers" operating MiG-29K/KUB INS Vikramaditya Crest IN Crest INS Vikramaditya Crest INAS 300 "White Tigers" operating Sea Harrier FRS.51/T.Mk.60 INAS 330 "Harpoons" operating Sea King Mk42B. INAS 321 "Angels" operating HAL Chetak(Alouette III) Two IN warships and possibly a submarine will join her as escorts. The ship's motto in Sanskrit is "Durakshya Saralakshya" - Strike far, Strike Sure

Congratulations and wishing you the best.

So far, Sea Trials have been successful and the ship is on course to be delivered to the Indian Navy by November-December this year . Night landing on the Vikramaditya, Sep 13, 2013: Misc pics from the on going sea trials

I would love to see Indian Navy Fireflies.

HAL built MiG-21M, No.101 Sqdn, Indian Air Force "Falcons"

On the Easten front, there was a lone PAF Canadair Sabre Mk.6 Squadron with a squadron of T-33/RT-33. Most of the air war took place over the western front - the terrain which we have for SF2..