Category: Fighter jets

India currently has 11 American C-17 Globemaster III cargo jets and 11 C-130J30 Hercules turboprops. They join India’s fleet of approximately 14 Russian IL-76 Candid cargo jets and 100+ Russian/Ukrainian AN-32 Cline turboprops. Finally, HAL license built 89 British HS-748 turboprops, and some 57 still serve in the IAF, rounding out India’s transport fleets. So India has quite a large fleet of over 193 medium to large jets and turboprops from the USSR/Russia, US, and UK. India’s transport fleets serve a variety of purposes in the tactical and strategic domains.…

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Su-30 MKI– Highly Modern (4+ gen) Russian Aircraft. Developed version of Su-27 (first russian jet to perform the cobra manoeuvre) which means high agility. It carries One X 30mm GSH gun alongwith 8000 kg external armament. It is capable of carrying a variety of medium-range guided air to air missiles with active or semi-active radar or Infra red homing close range missiles. It has a max speed of 2500 km/hr (Mach 2.35). Capable of launching BrahMos missiles, which gives it a big edge over others in the list. Dassault Rafale–…

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India’s mirage 2000 is one of the fastest supersonic fighter jets in the world. It is a deep strike fighter aircraft used to break the enemies defense and carry out missions like dropping bombs of precision guided or missiles. It can act so spontaneous in order to avoid retaliation in very fast . Besides it has the ability to fly at lower altitude in order to avoid radar signature or radar cross section. The Mirage 2000 has a maximum speed of Mach 2.2 (2336 kmph) and can travel 1550 km…

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Currently IAF holds 29 active squadrons 15 squadron su30mki(275) 3 squadron MiG-21 bison(54) 3 squadron mig-29 upg(66) 2 squadron Mirage 2000(45) 6 squadron sepecat Jaguar(118) Su30mki Mirage 200 MiG-21 bison Sepecat Jaguar Mig29 17 tejas and 5(2 trainer 3single seater) Rafales are also delivered

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