LCA和阵风好比镜花水月，《印度时报》称印军米格-21至少 ...

据俄罗斯军工综合体网站10月7日报道，俄塔社援引《印度时报》的消息指出，由于迟迟未能和法国签订“阵风”歼击机供应协议，以及国产“敏捷”战机生产延误，印度空军将被迫继续使用米格-21歼击机，至少在2025年前无法拒绝该型战机。

据悉，印度空军说的是2006年完成升级的110架米格-21比斯歼击机。此前曾有报道称，印度计划在2018-2019年前彻底弃用该型战机。

根据印方的如意算盘，到2022年印空军将拥有42支歼击机中队，与目前的34支中队相比，增加8支。新引进的“阵风”战机应当替代米格-21。但是由于相关供应协议至今尚未签订，印度将会用俄罗斯苏-30MKI替代米格-21。截止今日印度已经接装了从俄罗斯订购的272架(包括许可生产型号)苏-30MKI中的170多架。到2017年，印度将部署14支苏-30MKI中队。印度空军参谋长布朗承认，首架“阵风”出现在印军的时间不会早于2017年。

法国达索公司的“阵风”战机于2012年1月在印度空军战机采购招标中胜出。根据招标条件，飞机采购合同款项的一半应当投资到印度境内的歼击机组装生产项目上，大约110架“阵风”应当由印度斯坦航空有限责任公司制造，只有最初批次18架“阵风”由达索公司直接生产，以装配成品形式交付印度。交易金额最初估计为100亿美元，但是截止今日可能已经超过200亿美元。

今年4月印度曾经举行活动，庆祝米格-21歼击机在印军服役50周年。相应引进协议于1962年签订，一年后开始交付。1967年印度斯坦航空有限公司向印空军交付了第一架根据生产许可证本土组装的米格-21飞机。目前印度空军仍有260多架米格-21各型歼击机在继续服役。(编译：林海)

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仅近2年的消息，米格-21的最后服役日期就先是延迟到2017年，后又改到2019年

IAF grappling with free fall in fighters, will have to fly upgraded MiG-21s till 2025
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NEW DELHI: Just ahead of its 81st anniversary on October 8, the IAF has virtually sounded the red-alert over its fast-dwindling number of fighter squadrons. Confronted with the government's slow decision-making, fund crunches and Hindustan Aeronautics' sluggish performance, the force is now being forced to further stagger the already long-delayed retirement of its ageing MiG-21s and MiG-27s.

The grim situation can be gauged from the fact that IAF will continue to fly its 110 upgraded MiG-21 "Bisons" — of the total 260 MiG-21s still in its combat fleet — till 2025. Making this startling admission, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal (ACM) NAK Browne on Friday said, "We are authorized 42 fighter squadrons but, at present, we are much below that."

Though the primacy of airpower in shaping battles is undisputed, and both China and Pakistan are fast bolstering their fleets, the IAF is down to just 34 fighter squadrons (each has 16-18 jets) as of now.

So, even as plans are underway to upgrade airbases and advanced landing grounds for both the western and eastern fronts, there is a crippling shortage of modern fighters that can be deployed there.

With MiG-21 and MiG-27 squadrons slated for progressive phasing out over the 12th and 13th Plan periods (2012-22), IAF is desperate to ensure its long-standing new fighter induction plans are not derailed any further.

The topmost priority is the almost $20 billion MMRCA (medium multi-role combat aircraft) project to acquire 126 fighter jets, even as it will progressively induct the remaining 100 Sukhoi-30MKIs of the 272 such fighters contracted from Russia for around $12 billion.

The long-drawn MMRCA technical and commercial evaluation process began in August 2007, with the French Rafale fighter finally emerging the winner in January, 2012. But the contract — under which the first 18 jets are to be imported and the rest manufactured under licence by HAL over six years — is nowhere near being inked.

"The MMRCA and the first two squadrons of Tejas light combat aircraft (the indigenous fighter project sanctioned in 1983 but still to fully fructify) are very critical for us to maintain our deterrence capability. Otherwise, our force-levels will go down rapidly," said ACM Browne.

With the country headed for general elections, it's highly unlikely the MMRCA contract will be concluded in the ongoing fiscal. But the IAF chief said, "There is no back-up plan. The MMRCA is the only option, and it is highly doable. If we sign it by next year, the first MMRCA should come to us by 2017. We cannot delay it any further."

Even the long-term plan for co-developing the fifth-generation fighter aircraft with Russia is in the doldrums. It will take at least another year to ink the $11 billion "full design R&D contract" for the futuristic fighter, admitted ACM Browne.

As per the earlier timeline, IAF was looking to induct over 200 of these swing-role stealth fighters from 2022 onwards. But that may not be possible now. India will eventually spend around $35 billion on this project over the next 15-20 years, with each jet to be subsequently produced costing over $100 million.

据俄罗斯军工综合体网站10月7日报道，俄塔社援引《印度时报》的消息指出，由于迟迟未能和法国签订“阵风”歼击机供应协议，以及国产“敏捷”战机生产延误，印度空军将被迫继续使用米格-21歼击机，至少在2025年前无法拒绝该型战机。

据悉，印度空军说的是2006年完成升级的110架米格-21比斯歼击机。此前曾有报道称，印度计划在2018-2019年前彻底弃用该型战机。

根据印方的如意算盘，到2022年印空军将拥有42支歼击机中队，与目前的34支中队相比，增加8支。新引进的“阵风”战机应当替代米格-21。但是由于相关供应协议至今尚未签订，印度将会用俄罗斯苏-30MKI替代米格-21。截止今日印度已经接装了从俄罗斯订购的272架(包括许可生产型号)苏-30MKI中的170多架。到2017年，印度将部署14支苏-30MKI中队。印度空军参谋长布朗承认，首架“阵风”出现在印军的时间不会早于2017年。

法国达索公司的“阵风”战机于2012年1月在印度空军战机采购招标中胜出。根据招标条件，飞机采购合同款项的一半应当投资到印度境内的歼击机组装生产项目上，大约110架“阵风”应当由印度斯坦航空有限责任公司制造，只有最初批次18架“阵风”由达索公司直接生产，以装配成品形式交付印度。交易金额最初估计为100亿美元，但是截止今日可能已经超过200亿美元。

今年4月印度曾经举行活动，庆祝米格-21歼击机在印军服役50周年。相应引进协议于1962年签订，一年后开始交付。1967年印度斯坦航空有限公司向印空军交付了第一架根据生产许可证本土组装的米格-21飞机。目前印度空军仍有260多架米格-21各型歼击机在继续服役。(编译：林海)

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仅近2年的消息，米格-21的最后服役日期就先是延迟到2017年，后又改到2019年

IAF grappling with free fall in fighters, will have to fly upgraded MiG-21s till 2025
http://articles.timesofindia.ind ... -fighter-jets-mmrca

NEW DELHI: Just ahead of its 81st anniversary on October 8, the IAF has virtually sounded the red-alert over its fast-dwindling number of fighter squadrons. Confronted with the government's slow decision-making, fund crunches and Hindustan Aeronautics' sluggish performance, the force is now being forced to further stagger the already long-delayed retirement of its ageing MiG-21s and MiG-27s.

The grim situation can be gauged from the fact that IAF will continue to fly its 110 upgraded MiG-21 "Bisons" — of the total 260 MiG-21s still in its combat fleet — till 2025. Making this startling admission, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal (ACM) NAK Browne on Friday said, "We are authorized 42 fighter squadrons but, at present, we are much below that."

Though the primacy of airpower in shaping battles is undisputed, and both China and Pakistan are fast bolstering their fleets, the IAF is down to just 34 fighter squadrons (each has 16-18 jets) as of now.

So, even as plans are underway to upgrade airbases and advanced landing grounds for both the western and eastern fronts, there is a crippling shortage of modern fighters that can be deployed there.

With MiG-21 and MiG-27 squadrons slated for progressive phasing out over the 12th and 13th Plan periods (2012-22), IAF is desperate to ensure its long-standing new fighter induction plans are not derailed any further.

The topmost priority is the almost $20 billion MMRCA (medium multi-role combat aircraft) project to acquire 126 fighter jets, even as it will progressively induct the remaining 100 Sukhoi-30MKIs of the 272 such fighters contracted from Russia for around $12 billion.

The long-drawn MMRCA technical and commercial evaluation process began in August 2007, with the French Rafale fighter finally emerging the winner in January, 2012. But the contract — under which the first 18 jets are to be imported and the rest manufactured under licence by HAL over six years — is nowhere near being inked.

"The MMRCA and the first two squadrons of Tejas light combat aircraft (the indigenous fighter project sanctioned in 1983 but still to fully fructify) are very critical for us to maintain our deterrence capability. Otherwise, our force-levels will go down rapidly," said ACM Browne.

With the country headed for general elections, it's highly unlikely the MMRCA contract will be concluded in the ongoing fiscal. But the IAF chief said, "There is no back-up plan. The MMRCA is the only option, and it is highly doable. If we sign it by next year, the first MMRCA should come to us by 2017. We cannot delay it any further."

Even the long-term plan for co-developing the fifth-generation fighter aircraft with Russia is in the doldrums. It will take at least another year to ink the $11 billion "full design R&D contract" for the futuristic fighter, admitted ACM Browne.

As per the earlier timeline, IAF was looking to induct over 200 of these swing-role stealth fighters from 2022 onwards. But that may not be possible now. India will eventually spend around $35 billion on this project over the next 15-20 years, with each jet to be subsequently produced costing over $100 million.