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. Just couldn't stop laughing after verifying this. Time Travel!!!!!!! The lone MiG-23BN sqdn's last known crash was in 2004. Last known MiG-23MF crash was in 2002. April Fool's day. No such crash occured. Only losses in April were a Sea Harrier T.Mk.60 and a Cheetah helicopter. I know that IAF's participation in RIAT is a part of IAF's 75th anniversary celbrations and ts the MKI that will be attending RIAT and not Jaguars!!!!! so much for theMKI not being in demand

May be that's the reason why UK,US, French,Singapore air forces wanted to fly their jets against the MKI in joint exercises !!!!! Think before your post!!!! In case you didn't know ,it was the MiG-21 Bison's performance that left the American F-15 pilots shell shocked at Cope India 04. What they were expecting was an Iraqi type easy MiG-21 meat, but they were in for a huge shock when they went up against the Bison. Our Jaguars went round the world to Alaska and won laurels for their flying and leadership skills. Now our MKIs are going to UK for joint exercises and have been invited to UK's Air Tattoo show. Our Air Force is growing and earning respect all over the world and its pitiful and ignorant of you to make such comments.

BS. The crash rates of MiG-21s have come down drastically. They are not high as before. Elderly MiG-21s(FL/M/MF) are still flying but are slowly being phased out. The trouble is that the media tends to repor other MiG series crashes as MiG-21 crash.

Get your facts right. It was a term coined by the dumb print and electronic media of our country and not Indian pilots. Indian pilots still love and respect the aircraft as it is the aircraft that serves as the supersonic jet trainer before pilots get transferred to other fighter sqdns. Read the article linked in my sig.

I am sorry for the comment I made about morality in the Photo-real terrain thread. I am really sorry for it. I apologise to the community and it won't ever happen again. Sorry once again.

If one is making better looking models than these so-called ultra-realistic, supported by imaginary 3rd world pilots, "super-duper"payware models and giving them for free, wouldn't one be upset and discouraged if models inferior in quality and research were being sold for $$$$ ? Its just a natural reaction rather than "disgusting". Besides, what moral right do these payware guys have to enjoy freeware models ?

Indian Canberra B(I) 58s from No .5 Sqdn "Tuskers" saw action during the 1961 Congo Ops under the UN flag. These bombers were in fact flying as fighter bombers. They were denied use of bombs and just carried the belly gun pack as its armament. They attacked Katangan airflields and destroyed several Katangan AF aircraft including a couple of the much dreaded Fouga Magisters. The Canberras flew as escorts to UN transport and also flew CAS sorties in support of UN gound forces. I read that along with Swedish J-29s , Iranian and Ethiopian F-86s were involved in the 1961 Ops. Indian involvment in Congo and other African countries continues till date with Indian AF Mi-25s, Mi-17s and Chetak helos , Indian Army infantry and armour taking part actively in support of the UN.

looks promising Zur. Keep up the good work.

This is exactly what I've been trying to say since this whole payware thing cropped up. good to know that somoene out there agrees .

what's next? payware skins, FM, decals?

Nope. Jaguars along with MiG-27s form the backbone of IAF's offensive strike fleet. These upgraded Jags can be considered as the ultimate version of the Jaguar family. Note presence of ESM bumps on the nose, deletion of starboard cannon, new LRMTS window. A newly manufactured Jaguar IS: Pics of upgraded Jaguar IS(JS-210)

and India still continues to manufacture single seat and dual seat Jaguars

Malaysia takes delivery of first two of its 18 Su-30MKMs(M52-01 and M52-02). Malaysian SU-30MKM rollout video Another two Su-30MKMs would be delivered in June using the Antonov AN-124 transport aircraft to the RMAF base in Gong Kedak, Kelantan. Malaysian SU-30MKMs are smilar to Indian Su-30MKIs exceprt that the Israel equipment on the MKI has been repleaced by Russian,Indian and French systems HAL, which manfactures SU-30MKIs, will most proabably be providing spares support. Malaysian Air Force officers were in India some months back to see Su-30MKI operations. Imprssed by the performance of Su-30MKI,the Malaysians ordered their Su-30s in a config similar to Indian MKIs(TVC, Canards etc). Malaysian and Indian Su-30s are the most advanced Su-30 variants in the world today.

Hi soulfreak, I am not sure but I think it requires hex-editing a existing fuel tank and create a "new" fuel tank woth appropriate re-named bmps and lods. May be a weapons guru can help you out better.

On behalf of Team Ajeet, I am putting a request for someone to re-paint the gauges in Mago's MiG-21F cockpit from Russian to English. If anyone can do it, please do let us know. We will let you know what needs to be done. Thanks

very nice Marcelo.

The Gnats in Hot Shots were T.1s, right? I saw the movie long time back. What a pair these two made during their hey days

Thanks Dave. Its Marcelo & starfighter2 who did most of the work . Marcelo made these excellent models and its really beautiful Indian,Finnish & Yugoslav skins. starfighter2 made superb and accurate FMs. The aircraft's performance against its opponents is exactly as desired, specially against its good old friend, the PAF F-86 I just made a few decals . Cockpit is by Mago & Marcelo. Marcelo has modelled Gnat's unique speedbrake and landing gear system accurately. The Gnat's landing gear would deploy in a semi-retracted position to work as its speedbrake. Though there were some problems faced with this, thanks to RussoUk2002, USAFMTL and Sony Tuckson's help, it was resolved Any mention of the Gnat would be incomplete without this. An IAF Gnat punishing a PAF F-86F Its a real blast to see F-86s disintegrating in front of you . I would like to thank Mr. P.V.S Jagan Mohan for his answers to my questions and his Bharat-Rakshak website, from where I found most of the information on the Gnat and Ajeet. His book "Indo- Pak Air War of 1965" is an excellent source as well.

Actually I think i found this pic at BR, but can't find the link to it . Its shows a post-1971 war three tone camo Su-7 doing RATO from Bareilly AFS. Apparently the Su-7 was quite useless in terms of range.There were cases where Su-7s suffered fame-outs due to fuel starvation on landing approach after missions. In IAF service, it was a made to perform roles which it was not designed for ie. low level CAS. Many Su-7s fell to AAA while doing this, they made repeated passes over enemy troop concentrations and some of the Su-7 pilots paid with thier lives unfortunately.But it was robust as well, capable of taking punishment. It was one of the few aircrafts of the IAF which survived a direct missile hit(the tail section of one such a/c is on display at a Delhi museum.). A flight of Su-7s from IAF's elite TACDE squadron performed accurate airstrikes at night making the PAF(and a famous American officer) believe that these mission were flown by Russian pilots and that they were guided onto their targets by a Tu-126 Moss AWACS. THe aircraft had a relatively short service life in the IAF when compared to other aircraft of that era. Our Canberras(PR.57/67/B(I)58/T.Mk.54s of No. 106 SPR Sqdn) were retired just a week back after 50+ years of service with the same sqdn.

Nope, some of our Su-7s used them certainly , specially when Su-7 detachments were deployed in forward airbases with semi-prepared runways. I have a pic of an IAF Su-7 performing a RATO-assisted take-off somewhere on my HD. Will try and find it.

Very nice Edward. Will try and see if I can paint the Hurricane II in Indian AF colours. Some Indian AF sqdns flying Hurricanes, Vultee Vengeance and Lysanders flew in the Burma campaign.

Great work Edward

Are you sure the Su-7 had such a thing? During the 1971 war, an Indian Sqdn Ldr flying the Su-7 was shot down over Pakistan and he became a POW. During captivity, he was interrogated several times by Pakistanis as well as Brig. Gen. Chuck Yaeger about Su-7s bombing sight and how the Indian Su-7s accurately bombed Pakistani targets so accurately day and night. The pilot kept on denying that the Su-7 was equipped with special instruments for accurate bombing, yet his captors kept on questioning him. Frustrated, the Su-7 quipped - the reason for the accurate bombing was the Su-7's navigation instruments and two Mk.II Eyeballs installed in an Indian skull !!!!.

here it is

Exactly. There is a video on the IAF exploits in 65/71 war. It shows a B(I)58 firing its rockets from a SNEB rocket pod. Also, I have seen the canberra carrying dual rocket pods on it s wings pylon. Let me get that vid cap for you