Ashok Swine, Vidya Krishnan, and gang must be furiously analyzing this video frame-by-frame to determine how exactly it was “faked”.
Krivak: Solid, reliable platform.
Tunguska: Mediocre. Only a handful bought.
T-90S: Underwhelming. And the Russians went back on important ToT commitments.
Tu-22M3: Expensive, single-purpose platform. There’s a good reason it wasn’t bought. P-8I > Tu-22M3.
Modi and his government did a bunch of things that don’t look sexy on paper, but are worth far more than some gee-whiz weaponry. Border infra development, shoring up of war wastage reserves, improving aircraft uptimes by procuring soared and streamlining further purchases...
In 2014, the serviceability of the Su-30MKI fleet stood at 48%.
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By early 2017, it had been raised to 60%. That’s the rough equivalent of two more squadrons available for duty.
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