Indian Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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We had a discussion going on on the Aircraft Carrier II thread that I thought should also be here on the Indian Military News thread.
They were supposed to train 4 pilots every six months over a period of 4 years to get 32 trained. By all accounts, they finished by 2011, having qualified 32 pilots on the Goshawk.
I am willing to bet that the majority of those pilots are now flying the Mig-29Ks. Having qualified in the Goshawk aboard a US carrier, and then having also been stood up in the first Mig-29K wing and going through India's own land based carrier training facility...these pilots are going to come up to speed very quickly.
The Indians have thought this out pretty well, despite the slippages they have experienced in actually getting the carriers delivered, they have been spending the time and money to train their pilots.
Now they have the Vikramaditya, they have their Mig-29Ks, and they have the pilots.
I believe that they will stand up their first full squadron on the Vikramaditya pretty fast as a result. By all accounts they already have qualified ten pilots on the Vikramaditya now. Two more and that first squadron will have enough pilots.
Well, the Indian training program on US carriers with the Goshawk started in 2006 or 2007.
They were supposed to train 4 pilots every six months over a period of 4 years to get 32 trained. By all accounts, they finished by 2011, having qualified 32 pilots on the Goshawk.
I am willing to bet that the majority of those pilots are now flying the Mig-29Ks. Having qualified in the Goshawk aboard a US carrier, and then having also been stood up in the first Mig-29K wing and going through India's own land based carrier training facility...these pilots are going to come up to speed very quickly.
The Indians have thought this out pretty well, despite the slippages they have experienced in actually getting the carriers delivered, they have been spending the time and money to train their pilots.
Now they have the Vikramaditya, they have their Mig-29Ks, and they have the pilots.
I believe that they will stand up their first full squadron on the Vikramaditya pretty fast as a result. By all accounts they already have qualified ten pilots on the Vikramaditya now. Two more and that first squadron will have enough pilots.
joshuatree
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The Indians have certainly been on a spending spree for US Systems:
C-130J Hercules (12)
P-8I Neptunes (12)
C-17 Globemasters (10)
AH-64D Apaches (22)
CH-47F Chinooks (15)
M-777 Howitzers (145)
All of these US Systems are very good...but also expensive.
From Marine Forum Daily news:
It follows from the previous posts on the lack of funds for C-130J &. of course. I don't think the the explanation is that the Indians can't count. After all our symbol for ZERO was invented there. So is the explanation corruption?
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It follows from the previous posts on the lack of funds for C-130J &. of course. I don't think the the explanation is that the Indians can't count. After all our symbol for ZERO was invented there. So is the explanation corruption?
the previous govt spent money like a drunkard on populist schemes of questionable benefit, ground the economy to a halt and adopted a scorched earth policy so that the next govt would have an insurmountable task in front of them. (it was pretty much clear that they wont return to power)
for the last 6 months it went into complete paralysis mode & simply stopped bothering about governance. all ministers were busy in election campaigning and neglected their respective ministries.
the net effect is that the national budget, which allocates funds is meant to be passed in april but due to change in govt it can only be passed in july. it is only after that the halted projects would re-start.
p.s. that C-130 article above is pretty alarmist though. while financial situation is bad, it's not THAT bad.
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Thank you Rahul, for that informative post. And welcome to SD!