Air Engagement of Operation Sindoor : Analysis
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I would say what Maverick said in Top Gun
" It is One of Life's Mysteries Sir "
Jokes aside nobody outside Defence circles know the exact status of Meteor or India specific Enhancements for which we paid some 2 Billion dollars
All systems talk to the Mission Computer. By having our own MC, we could integrate all Russian and Indian avionics smoothly(of course with full OEM support).
BTW, Virupaksha will have 2600 TRMs in its production version. It's too big for the nose-cose of Su-57. However, the GaN radar we're developing for AMCA(having 1600-1800 TRMs), should easily fit with little modification. Let's see!
Does this really have 250km max range??
I Would say more in the range of 180-200km.
Given its length & weight.
It's a chinese pl-15 equivalent in terms of range, but significantly lighter and more compact.
It's either the rafales were primarily used for deep interdiction strike and CAP was the su-30mki's and mig 29's responsibility or the rafales have yet to be integrated on the Indian rafales.
It's most likely the rafales did not do CAP on the first day that's why counter air kills in Pakistani airspace happened more by Indian AD rather than Indian aircrafts. The other part is the PAF's dismal performance on the second and third day would likely because roles might have been exchanged with the rafale doing CAP while the su-30mki shifted to the ground strike role. So the rafale might have been actually effective on the second and third day but it's performance wasn't discussed because IAF may not have been engaging but rather locking on enemy aircraft and leaving them.
They already have a triple-pulse BVRAAM that is fully operational known as Stunner. This looks more like extended version of i-DERBY ER in terms of wing planform. Stunner doesn't carry a warhead as it is "direct hit to kill" missile. Stunner has 300kms range, so this Sky Sting having 250kms range with warhead(possibly) ain't too bad. We should grab this offer with both hands as Gandiva is still several years away from being operational.
Also Israelis have much better service wrt modifying their weapons for better integration with our platforms & systems.
There no evidence of counter kills inside Pakistan territory by Indian AD .
I didn't come across any.
PAF could not defend air bases and that was a bummer.
There may be aircrafts damaged or destroyed by Bradmos attacks. Although I didn't see any evidence of that either.
One Saab erieye was damaged. PAF said that in press release. But that was all done by Indian ground forces , not thr air force.
Apart from two storm shadows hitting nur khan air Base, most probably fired by Rafales, the Rafales didn't do much else in that aspect of warfare either.
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It would have been a lot more fun if Meteor were fired .I would say what Maverick said in Top Gun
" It is One of Life's Mysteries Sir "
Jokes aside nobody outside Defence circles know the exact status of Meteor or India specific Enhancements for which we paid some 2 Billion dollars
I would be watching a lot more tiktok of PAF jets.
War is war and both sides get hits. Nothing unusual.
At the moment I only have tiktoks of Indian jets.
There was one drone attack by India on Walton air strip , where they destroyed a Pakistani drone command truck. It was even in DGISPR press conference.
But then again that wasn't the Rafales doing this.
It would be a lot more fun to see more action from Rafales.
There are talks of a rafale crashing in Bhatinda.
But the city is 70-100 km inside indian border.
So I was skeptical of it being "shot down" that much Inside our border.
Any Insights?
Well this just means we have to go full on to have Astra Mk2 and Gandiva by 2030. Essentially you're saying we have an fighter with long range BVRM but that's not networked hence inferior situational awareness but our networked fighters with superior situational awareness have no means to take advantage of that cuz of low range BVRM. Very serious conundrum. We need Gandiva working ASAP then.
Instead of buying a dozen different types of AAM India should fully integrate the ones they already have.
Zero Meteor were fired during Shindoor.
Integrate that first, develop strategies to use it.
Problem with india is that weapons procurement and such critical defence decisions are in the hands of people who know nothing about warfare.
Rajnath Singh may be good at smashing coconuts on Rafales, but how much he understands the working of such a complex machinery?
Hello Mister
In India , Defence Minister Never decides Any acquisition
He only approves it
All Technological requirements are decided by Technocrats
Of The Armed forces
And then accordingly the various systems are finalised
Even the Bureaucracy doesn't have a say
They only approve the funds and ask questions whether any such Technogical requirement can be fulfilled by DRDO
Since we are in a Conflict mode , the Armed forces have been alloted 50 Thousand crore ie 6 Billion dollars for emergency purchases