🔆 Types of Aircrafts India Has
▪️Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA):
✅Designed to perform various missions such as air-to-air combat, air-to-ground attack, and electronic warfare.
✅IAF pursuing the procurement of 114 MRFA to replace the aging fleet of Soviet-era MiG-21.
✅Procurement will be carried out under the Make in India initiative.
✅Selected vendor will have to set up a production line in India and transfer technology to local partners.
▪️MiG-21:
✅Supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft designed by the erstwhile USSR in the 1950s.
✅Widely used combat aircraft in history, with more than 11,000 units built and over 60 countries operating it.
✅IAF acquired its first MiG-21 in 1963 and has since inducted 874 variants of the aircraft Involved in several wars and conflicts involving India.
✅Involved in many accidents and crashes, earning it the nickname “flying coffin”.
✅IAF plans to phase out the MiG-21 by 2024 and replace it with more modern fighters.
▪️Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA):
✅An Indian program to develop a 5th generation stealth, multirole combat aircraft for the IAF and the Indian Navy.
✅Designed and developed by the ADA of the DRDO, in collaboration with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and other public and private partners.
✅Expected to have features such as a stealth airframe, internal weapons bay, advanced sensors, data fusion, supercruise capability and swing-role performance.
✅Started in 2008 as a successor to the Sukhoi Su-30MKI
✅First flight planned for 2025 and production is expected to start after 2030.
▪️Sukhoi Su-30MKI:
✅Twin-engine, two-seat, multirole fighter aircraft developed by Russia’s Sukhoi and built under license by India’s HAL for the IAF.
✅Designed to perform air superiority, ground attack, electronic warfare, and maritime strike missions Entered service with the IAF in 2002 and has been deployed in several conflicts and exercises.
▪️Twin-Engine Deck-Based Fighter (TEDBF):
✅Manufactured for the Navy to replace the Navy's MiG-29K.
✅First twin-engine aircraft project in India for dedicated carrier-based operations.
✅Equipped predominantly with domestic weapons.
✅Maximum mach number of 1.6, service ceiling of 60,000 feet, maximum takeoff weight of 26 tons, unfolded wing.
▪️Rafale:
✅French twin-engine and multirole fighter aircraft.
✅ India procured 36 Rafale jets for Rs 59,000 crore in 2016.
✅Equipped to perform air supremacy, interdiction, aerial reconnaissance, ground support, in-depth strike, anti-ship strike, and nuclear deterrence missions.
✅The weapons package of Rafale jets includes Meteor missile, Scalp cruise missile, and MICA missile system.
✅Meteor missile is the next generation of Beyond Visual Range air-to-air missile designed to revolutionize air-to-air combat, capable of targeting enemy aircraft from 150 km away.
✅SCALP Cruise Missiles can hit targets 300 km away, while MICA missile system is a versatile air-to-air missile capable of hitting targets up to 100 km away.
✅ Flight hour capacity of 30,000 hours in operations.
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