Dienekes escribió:Los LCA Tejas van a sustituir a los Jaguar quizás?
Ambos a los Jaguar y a los muy viejos Mig21, a partir de 2010.
Hombres no hay que olvidar que en el marco de la competición para la compra de unos 126 cazadores del programa Indio MRCA, también hay el "Rafale" francés (Dassault-Aviation), ....
Si son listos elegirán sea el Mig35 (estupendo ratio precio/calidades), sea el Rafale (el sólo siendo ambos de nueva generación y furtivo)
Tontos serían los indios si decidieran comprar F16 que, aunque sea un buen aparato, ha sido diseñado hace casí 40 años.
Si son listos elegirán sea el Mig35 (estupendo ratio precio/calidades), sea el Rafale (el sólo siendo ambos de nueva generación y furtivo)
Bueno sabemos todos que en este tipo de competición los americanos saben "untar la mano" de algunos con lucha generosidad ...
USAF Pilot Critiques Red Flag Action
Nov 5, 2008
David A. Fulghum and Graham Warwick
Indian pilots flying Su-30MKIs are extremely professional, but they're still learning how to best fight with their new aircraft.
That opinion comes from an unidentified, senior F-15 pilot taped while briefing senior retired U.S. Air Force officers about the most recent Red Flag exercise. The video was made available online at YouTube.com.
The French pilots flying the new Dassault Rafale appeared to be there to collect electronic intelligence on the Indian aircraft, contends the USAF pilot, who wears an Air Force Weapons School graduate patch.
The French were originally going to bring the older Mirage 2000-5 until they discovered the Indians were bringing their new Su-30MKIs, the pilot says. They then switched and brought their Rafales with more sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment.
Once at Red Flag, "90 percent of the time they followed the Indians so when they took a shot or got shot" they would take a quick shot of their own and then leave," he said. "They never came to any merges," which starts the dogfighting portion of any air-to-air combat. He asserts that French pilots followed the same procedure during Desert Storm and Peace Keeping exercises. When U.S. aircrews were flying operations, the French would fly local sorties while "sucking up all the trons" to see how U.S. electronics, like radars, worked, according to the pilot.
He praised the Indians as extremely professional and said they had no training rule violations. However, they "killed a lot of friendlies" because they were tied to a Russian-made data link system that didn't allow them to see the picture of the battlefield available to everyone else. The lack of combat identification of the other aircraft caused confusion.
But the U.S. apparently isn't ignorant of the Su-30MKI's radar either.
The Su-30 electronically scanned radar is not as accurate as the U.S.-built active electronically scanned radar carried by the F-22 and some F-15s. Also, "it paints less, sees less" and is not as discriminating.
He praised the F-22 as the next great dogfighter. But he faulted the fact that it carries too few missiles and contends that the on-board cannon could be a life-saver, particularly against aircraft like the MiG-21 Bison flown by the Indians. It has a small radar cross section, as well as an Israeli-made F-16 radar and jammer. The latter makes them "almost invisible to legacy F-15C and F-16 radars" until the aerial merge or until it fires one of its Archer, active radar missiles, the U.S. pilot says.
Against the much larger RCS Su-30MKI, the F-16s and F-15s won consistently during the first three days of air-to-air combat, he continues. However, that was the result of trying to immediately go into a post-stall, thrust-vectored turn when attacked. The turn then creates massive drag and the aircraft starts sinking and losing altitude. "It starts dropping so fast you don't have to go vertical [first]. The low-speed tail slide allowed the U.S. aircraft to dive from above and "get one chance to come down to shoot," the pilot says. "You go to guns and drill his brains out." The Su-30 is jamming your missiles so...you go to guns and drill his brains out."
U.S. pilots conclude that the Su-30MKI is "not [an F-22] Raptor," he further says. "That was good for us to find out." But when the Indian pilots really learn to fight their new aircraft - "they were too anxious to go to the post-stall maneuver," he says-- the USAF pilot predicts that they would regularly defeat the F-16C Block 50 and the F-15C with conventional radar.
A final weakness in the Su-30MKI was its engine's vulnerability to foreign object damage which required them to space takeoffs a minute apart and slowed mission launches.
French pilots flying the new Dassault Rafale appeared to be collecting electronic intelligence on India’s even newer Su-30MKI aircraft during a September Red Flag exercise at Nellis AFB, Nev., contends a USAF pilot briefing retired U.S. generals.
The French were originally going to bring the older Mirage 2000-5 until they discovered the Indians were bringing their new Su-30MKIs, he said. They then switched and brought their Rafales with more sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment.
First "Phalcon" AWACS Arrives in New Delhi
The first "Phalcon" AWACS airplane arrived in New Delhi on 11 January, ARMS-TASS reports, referring to the India Today information agency. This fact was confirmed by on the Indian air force's leaders. He specified that the airplane departed for its permanent base at the airfield in Agra after a technical landing in Delhi.
India was supposed to receive the first AWACS as early as December 2007. But this date was put off several times for different reasons.
It is recalled that India and Israel signed a contract worth 1.1 billion dollars for the purchase of the three radars developed by the IAI Company and their installation based on the Russian Il-76 airplane in March 2004. An option for additional acquisition of from three to five AWACS systems was provided for in the document.
The airplanes are equipped with four Russian PS-90A-76 engines, a phased antenna array radar, Belgian 20-inch liquid crystal screens, the Israeli Elbit company's avionics countermeasures system and also Indian and French manufactured systems. The airplane is intended for the detection and airborne and ground targets, information gathering and reconnaissance at a distance greater than 400 kilometers. The EL/M-2075 radar installed on a fairing above the fuselage is able to detect and track different targets in a 360-degree sector.
Source: 15.01.09, Avia.RU
Se trabaja en la modernización de los cazas Su-30MKI que permitirá lanzar el misil "BrahMos"
Dos Su-30MKI, aviones de combate de la Fuerza Aérea de la India se enviaron a Rusia para su modernización, que le permita lanzar el misil de crucero supersónico BrahMos , dijo el ministro Indio de Defensa.
Dado que la longitud de los misiles es casi 9 metros, para su establecimiento en el Su-30MKI se requerirá la modificación del fuselaje de la aeronave. Este trabajo se llevará a cabo por los expertos rusos, junto con especialistas de la Organización para la Investigación y Desarrollo de Defensa (DRDO) del Ministerio de Defensa de la India. Se espera que la modificación se completara a principios de 2010.
Hasta la fecha, la Empresa Mixta BraMos ha completado el desarrollo de varias versiones del misil. Versiones para la marina y ejercito de tierra con éxito comprobado y aceptado por la India. El trabajo sobre el diseño en base de submarinos preciso de modificaciones.
El 18 de diciembre de 2008 la Marina de la India realizó su primera en la Bahía de Bengala, del lanzamiento de un misil crucero supersónico "BrahMos" a bordo del destructor Radzhput con un lanzador vertical. En un principio las lanzadoras del misil eran oblicuas. El lanzador vertical que ha participado en las pruebas, también fue diseñado y construido una empresa conjunta "BraMos.
Según las estimaciones de los analistas, Sun Microsystems puede adquirir en los próximos 10 años hasta 1.000 misiles "BrahMos". Al mismo tiempo y aproximadamente unos 2000 se venderá misiles a otros países. La exportación de los misiles podría comenzar en 2009.
Se continúa trabajando para desarrollar mayores velocidades hipersónicas para otras versión del misil. Será capaz de alcanzar una velocidad de crucero de 5-7M, el doble de la tasa actual de 2,8 M de los diseños existentes y hace que prácticamente sean imposible de interceptar. Se esperaba que el proyecto para desarrollar un misil hipersónico deberá tomar aproximadamente 5-7 años.
En el caso éxito en la integración de la plataforma del misiles al Su-30MKI en el futuro se espera integrarlo también a aviones como el Su-35 y de quinta generación de combate, cuyo desarrollo se llevó a cabo conjuntamente por la India y Rusia.
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