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Friday, July 10, 2009
Meet India’s SU-30MK1 jet fighter
During a 2004 friendly exercise with the Indian Air Force in Gwalior, India, the U.S. Air Force was humbled when the Indian SU-30 MK1 fighter outscored the best U.S. air domination fighter, the F-16C.
U.S. General Hal Hornburg, commander of the Air Combat Command, lamented that it was a “wake-up call” for the U.S. Air Force and that it had been bested by the relatively unknown air power, India.
Hornburg pleaded with the U.S. government for the speedy development of the F-22, the Raptor, and the F-35, the Joint Strike Fighter. The results of this humbling of U.S. pilots are still classified, but Hornburg blamed the disastrous results of the exercise on the lack of better radar on the F-15C.
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I really wish MCRA goes to MIG 35 and It too is as heavily modified as Su 30 MKI.
ReplyDeleteIt is not the MKI! It seems to be an old Russian su29 or the new su35!
ReplyDeleteMoreover the pilot is a European!
When did Russians start flying in the MKIs??
It is MKI but in Russia. aircraft with same Indian configuration except the avionics..
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