After October, there will be only 29 fighter jet squadron in India- there are 25 in Pakistan. It is closeness, and is a scary, especially because Pakistan’s ‘Iron Brother’ has 66 squadron in China. A squadron usually consists of 18–20 fighter jets. At the time of two months, India will have 522 fighter jets. Pakistan has 450, and China, 1,200.Air Chief AP Singh said that India needs to include at least 40 fighter jets every year. Currently, it seems worse than impossible.Some pundits say that as long as India enhances its game, more squadron with old fighter jets, mirage, Jaguar and other MiG variants will be phased, it will have a fighting fighter squadron similar to Pakistan in less than 10 years. The approximate cause of this concern IAF is to phase out its last two MIG-21 squadrons. But the major reasons have been playing for years.Mmrca shock: The 2015 cancellation of the 126-Jate Medium Multi-Rol Combat aircraft deal made a big difference. 36 Rafale Jets India acquired France through a government-to-goal deal, which was not enough to the IAF’s Azing Fighter fleet. India has ordered 26 more Rafaels, but for the Navy.Plans, plans, plans … There are plans to purchase 114 multi-roll fighter aircraft. But nothing happened on this.made in India? The grand plan was that the indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft would maintain India’s aerial superiority on Pakistan. The IAF currently has about two squadrons, 38 fighters of Tajas Mark -1. The delivery of better Tejas Mark -1A jets, of which 83 should be distributed by HAL, has been blown through several production time limits. Not a single service is in service. This is thanks to a massive delay in delivery of GE’s F-404 engines, and partially due to the issues to integrate Estra Air-to-Air Missiles and fix some important avionics as well as so many untouchable issues.IAF hopes another 97 Tejas Mark -1A, along with another 108 Tejas Mark -2 version with a more powerful GE F -414 engine. The engine is to be co-produced in India with the transfer of 80% technology. But all this is now on paper.Then, the proposed 5th generation is advanced medium fighter aircraft. This is the most said that it is an idea.engine failure: The major obstacle in the Made in India program is the inability to produce an indigenous jet engine. The Old Cauvery engine development project failed to meet the project standards. Modern fighter jet engines are complex machines with thousands of parts that will face high pressure and temperature. Billions of dollars are required to develop a fighter jet engine.Essentially, an engine consists of four parts- compressor, combustion chamber, turbine and nozzle.The warm part of the engine, combustion chamber and turbine blades, are difficult to be correct, required advanced ceramic. But in physics, the depth of India’s talent is shallow. Every year only a few thousand material engineers are graduated. India even struggles to manufacture basic items such as ceramic-fitted electrodes required in the production of green hydrogen. These are imported. So, at least in the near future, forget about the fighter jet engines made here.
What are drone solutions?Many pundits are becoming meaningless in view of the changing nature of the war to big military platforms such as fighter jets and warships. Ukraine has done amazing things with drones in its war against Russian aggression, taking out the Russian warships and fighter jets with the UAV, which spends a fraction of the price of a jet.Ukraine will produce 4 million drones this year. India’s armed forces have talked about using many more drones. But there are two issues. Any domestic production will be responsible for the sometimes developed drone technology. And India requires an expert core to operate drones or expert drone subunits.Those who challenge the drone-ain-int strategy, explain that India’s strategic security theater is very different from Ukraine, and fighter jets provide a penetrating, aggressive capacity that cannot drone, at least no longer.Therefore, it is reality that India and Pakistan are almost in equality when it comes to fighter jets, it is still scary.
