As Pakistan Promises To Release IAF Officer, Accident-Prone MiG-21s Are Flying Past Their Retirement Age
The MiG-21 Bison J Wang commander congratulatory flight was flying when he dropped below the Pakistan Air Force F-16, his retirement age was good, and was kept alive with repeated upgradation and service life extension, experts has told.
The Russian-made MiG-482 crashed, which were lost in the accidents between 1971 and April 2012, on average, for the first time in the middle of the 12 - 1960s in a year were included in the Indian Air Force. These were supposed to retire until the mid-1990s, but were upgraded to Bison standard, even until the 1980s, frequent versions were also included.
"Pushpinder Singh, founder editor of Aerospace and Defense Review told INDIASPAND," India is still the last country with a serious Air Force to fly for MiG 21. "A poor young man who flew against F-16, did not get a chance ... [He] is now a prisoner of war and it is a matter of national shame that in 2019 we are still flying these planes."
As aircraft age, the number of failures increases due to aging of their functional equipment or system components. As system components often have a longer life capacity than the certified life of an aircraft, subsystems or service life extension programs are organized to maximize the use of their devices.
However, every aircraft has its own life and the MiG-21 has reached its end two decades ago, Singh said. After several upgrades and service life expansion, India will begin to phase-up the MiG-21 along with MiG-23 and MiG-27 from 2022.
But it can not be enough soon.
MiG is made on the 1960s technology and in the 1970s, Air Marshal Padmajit Singh Ahluwalia (retd), former chief of the Western Air Command, said IndiaSpend. "[We] are now coming closer to 2020 ... [It] is unprecedented in the Indian Air Force that it can be used till date because there is no comparison for these jet F-16s."
History of accidents
The government added more than one fourth of the 28 IAF aircraft registered between April 2012 and March 2016, out of which six advanced MiG-21 Bison versions were, the government told Parliament in March 2016 .
From 1971 to April 2012, in 482 MIG aircrafts, 171 pilots, 39 civilians, eight service personnel and one plane were killed, the government told Parliament in May 2012.
MiG-21 usually reports the maximum number of accidents, Air Marshal Ahluwalia said, "It is difficult to fly these planes - they have the highest accident rate."
From 1993 to 2013, 198 MiG-21 is specially dubbed "flying coffins" - especially by pilots - different variants have crashed, 151 pilots have died, a website from Bharat Rakshak , Which is referring to the government's figures. . IndiaSpend has not been able to independently verify these data.
For more than 50 years, the Indian Air Force is using Russian-made MiG-21 and its variants, which are the oldest fighter aircraft in its fleet. "We are still the squadron of the old model," Air Marshal VK Jimmy Bhatia (Retd.), Who commanded the Western Air Command, told IndiaSpend. "Over a decade ago, we started upgrading them to Bison Standards, which included new radar and new navigational capabilities along with other upgrades."
MiG said, "Distributed in quality matters - as these supersonic fighter jets were, keeping in mind the time and technology, as we could do in large numbers to serve them for four decades," Singh told IndiaSpend, however, adding, that every aircraft has a lifetime and that the MiG-21 reached its end two decades ago.
By 2022, these aircraft will have reached the end of their lifetime, and MiG-21 and MiG-21 will be phased out with MiG-21.
The US-made F-16, used by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), has a very advanced radar, navigation system and other capabilities. In terms of range, F-16s are better than MiG-21, "said Air Marshal Bhatia. PAF is using F-16 for less than 40 years, and 10 years ago it had obtained its newest batch of Block-50 models.
Still, Air Marshal Bhatia said, could defeat the MiG-21 F-16: "MiG-21 Bison is capable of carrying the latest Russian missiles and in this sense you can not say that they are from F-16 I would say that they are comparable, but the fact is that we are near the end of the wind frame for them - they have very little residual life, even for those planes which got the extension Is - we have extended life End close. "
Singh said that in 1983, the government had accepted the need to design and develop newer technology fighter jets. "But since we were not ready to buy them, we made the Light Combat Aircraft Program (LCA) Tejas," he said. "Now 35 years later, this program has to really take away."
To make a hold against today's fighter-jets, an aircraft needs modern technology such as advanced avionics and radars, more weapon-load capacity, stealth technology, electronic warfare, precise weapons, and other such features, -21 is not near. , Padamjit Singh Ahluwalia (retd), former chief of the Western Air Command, IndiaSpend said. "As a fighter jet, the MiG-21 is a basic plane with regular avionics, it does not have a precise-strike weapon or a reliable engine ..."
Wig Commander Vithman's MiG-21 Bison was shot and made prisoner, IAF sources defended the use of the MiG-21 Bison, stating that it was one of the fighters in its inventory and that plane Was rotated on the basis of operation, time and time. The level of danger, The Print reported on February 27, 2019.
The first Tejas was included in the IAF in July 2016. On February 20, 2019, after less than a week after the February 14 pullwama attack, IAF was released as the final operating clearance or to service-to-documents for Tejas Mk1.
Singh said, "In Kargil operation we used Mirage 2000 in 1999, which works beautifully." He said that three Air Chiefs put a lot of emphasis on achieving these aircraft with multi-role capabilities to replace the MiG, but "the system did not allow their purchase".
Instead, in 2007, the Congress-led government initiated the process to develop the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA). Six vendors were shortlisted - Russian Aircraft Corporation, Swedish Aerospace Company Saab, France's Dassault Aviation SA, US Lockheed Martin Corporation and Boeing, and a consortium of British, German, Spanish and Italian firms. The first 18 planes were to be sold in the 'fly-away' situation, while the remaining 108 was to be transferred under technology agreements.
In April 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announced the purchase of 36 Rafael fighter aircraft after negotiating with the French government directly, with a three-year interaction for the MRCA tender. Later, in July 2018, the then Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar informed the Parliament that the Center had withdrawn a multi-billion dollar tender for 126 MRCA fighter jets.
This has created a high-feud dispute with Congress
The Russian-made MiG-482 crashed, which were lost in the accidents between 1971 and April 2012, on average, for the first time in the middle of the 12 - 1960s in a year were included in the Indian Air Force. These were supposed to retire until the mid-1990s, but were upgraded to Bison standard, even until the 1980s, frequent versions were also included.
"Pushpinder Singh, founder editor of Aerospace and Defense Review told INDIASPAND," India is still the last country with a serious Air Force to fly for MiG 21. "A poor young man who flew against F-16, did not get a chance ... [He] is now a prisoner of war and it is a matter of national shame that in 2019 we are still flying these planes."
As aircraft age, the number of failures increases due to aging of their functional equipment or system components. As system components often have a longer life capacity than the certified life of an aircraft, subsystems or service life extension programs are organized to maximize the use of their devices.
However, every aircraft has its own life and the MiG-21 has reached its end two decades ago, Singh said. After several upgrades and service life expansion, India will begin to phase-up the MiG-21 along with MiG-23 and MiG-27 from 2022.
But it can not be enough soon.
MiG is made on the 1960s technology and in the 1970s, Air Marshal Padmajit Singh Ahluwalia (retd), former chief of the Western Air Command, said IndiaSpend. "[We] are now coming closer to 2020 ... [It] is unprecedented in the Indian Air Force that it can be used till date because there is no comparison for these jet F-16s."
History of accidents
The government added more than one fourth of the 28 IAF aircraft registered between April 2012 and March 2016, out of which six advanced MiG-21 Bison versions were, the government told Parliament in March 2016 .
From 1971 to April 2012, in 482 MIG aircrafts, 171 pilots, 39 civilians, eight service personnel and one plane were killed, the government told Parliament in May 2012.
MiG-21 usually reports the maximum number of accidents, Air Marshal Ahluwalia said, "It is difficult to fly these planes - they have the highest accident rate."
From 1993 to 2013, 198 MiG-21 is specially dubbed "flying coffins" - especially by pilots - different variants have crashed, 151 pilots have died, a website from Bharat Rakshak , Which is referring to the government's figures. . IndiaSpend has not been able to independently verify these data.
MiG-21 vs F-16
For more than 50 years, the Indian Air Force is using Russian-made MiG-21 and its variants, which are the oldest fighter aircraft in its fleet. "We are still the squadron of the old model," Air Marshal VK Jimmy Bhatia (Retd.), Who commanded the Western Air Command, told IndiaSpend. "Over a decade ago, we started upgrading them to Bison Standards, which included new radar and new navigational capabilities along with other upgrades."
MiG said, "Distributed in quality matters - as these supersonic fighter jets were, keeping in mind the time and technology, as we could do in large numbers to serve them for four decades," Singh told IndiaSpend, however, adding, that every aircraft has a lifetime and that the MiG-21 reached its end two decades ago.
By 2022, these aircraft will have reached the end of their lifetime, and MiG-21 and MiG-21 will be phased out with MiG-21.
The US-made F-16, used by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), has a very advanced radar, navigation system and other capabilities. In terms of range, F-16s are better than MiG-21, "said Air Marshal Bhatia. PAF is using F-16 for less than 40 years, and 10 years ago it had obtained its newest batch of Block-50 models.
Still, Air Marshal Bhatia said, could defeat the MiG-21 F-16: "MiG-21 Bison is capable of carrying the latest Russian missiles and in this sense you can not say that they are from F-16 I would say that they are comparable, but the fact is that we are near the end of the wind frame for them - they have very little residual life, even for those planes which got the extension Is - we have extended life End close. "
Singh said that in 1983, the government had accepted the need to design and develop newer technology fighter jets. "But since we were not ready to buy them, we made the Light Combat Aircraft Program (LCA) Tejas," he said. "Now 35 years later, this program has to really take away."
To make a hold against today's fighter-jets, an aircraft needs modern technology such as advanced avionics and radars, more weapon-load capacity, stealth technology, electronic warfare, precise weapons, and other such features, -21 is not near. , Padamjit Singh Ahluwalia (retd), former chief of the Western Air Command, IndiaSpend said. "As a fighter jet, the MiG-21 is a basic plane with regular avionics, it does not have a precise-strike weapon or a reliable engine ..."
Wig Commander Vithman's MiG-21 Bison was shot and made prisoner, IAF sources defended the use of the MiG-21 Bison, stating that it was one of the fighters in its inventory and that plane Was rotated on the basis of operation, time and time. The level of danger, The Print reported on February 27, 2019.
New aircraft is needed
The first Tejas was included in the IAF in July 2016. On February 20, 2019, after less than a week after the February 14 pullwama attack, IAF was released as the final operating clearance or to service-to-documents for Tejas Mk1.
Singh said, "In Kargil operation we used Mirage 2000 in 1999, which works beautifully." He said that three Air Chiefs put a lot of emphasis on achieving these aircraft with multi-role capabilities to replace the MiG, but "the system did not allow their purchase".
Instead, in 2007, the Congress-led government initiated the process to develop the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA). Six vendors were shortlisted - Russian Aircraft Corporation, Swedish Aerospace Company Saab, France's Dassault Aviation SA, US Lockheed Martin Corporation and Boeing, and a consortium of British, German, Spanish and Italian firms. The first 18 planes were to be sold in the 'fly-away' situation, while the remaining 108 was to be transferred under technology agreements.
In April 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announced the purchase of 36 Rafael fighter aircraft after negotiating with the French government directly, with a three-year interaction for the MRCA tender. Later, in July 2018, the then Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar informed the Parliament that the Center had withdrawn a multi-billion dollar tender for 126 MRCA fighter jets.
This has created a high-feud dispute with Congress
As Pakistan Promises To Release IAF Officer, Accident-Prone MiG-21s Are Flying Past Their Retirement Age
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