US Navy says F-18 fighter is IAF's best bet

"Awesome, outstanding." That's how US Navy's flight instructor Lt Scott Koch described his modern all-weather flying machine, Boeing's F-18, which is being offered to the IAF as part of its global tender for 126 multi-role combat fighters worth Rs 42,000 crore.

Koch, 31, who has 300 hours of experience in flying the F-18 E/F equipped with the new-generation Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, sweared by its "detection credibility."

"I can see everyone...even a cruise missile," said the fighter pilot who was earlier flying the F-14 fighter aircraft that has sports a less powerful APG 73 radar.

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