Indian experts say they can fight F35 one-on-one

Indian experts say they can fight F35 one-on-one

According to The Hindu's report on May 26th, 2020, Commander-in-Chief of Indian Air Force Bhadoria announced that the Indian Air Force 18 Missile Squadron deployed in Tamil Nadu became the second squadron of Indian Air Force equipped with Indian-made light fighters on May 27th. Bhadauria also said that the opening ceremony was held at surour Air Force Base to officially open the second light fighter squadron equipped with domestic "Glory" fighters.

As the first domestic fighter in India, the Glorious Fighter seems to be a joke in the hearts of international and military fans. Although the Indian Air Force has repeatedly stressed that the Glorious Fighter is equipped with a new flight control system and other functions. But this design and the old fighter of 1983 took 27 years to develop!

Many things happened during this period, and the Soviet Union even disintegrated. Therefore, some netizens spit out that the glorious fighter is an out-and-out "outdated" product.

As a research and development country of glorious fighters, India naturally does not recognize this argument. At the beginning of 20 19, Indian aerospace analyst Hormuz P. Mama published an article online. He claimed that LCA "Glory" is a "seriously underestimated advanced fighter" and will become "the backbone of the Indian Air Force" in the future.

The expert also claimed that many regional countries, including Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Singapore, showed "strong interest" in this fighter. "With the gradual maturity of the improved LCA model LCA MK2, the future LCA can even compete with the fifth-generation machine!"

Many netizens replied "Hehe" to refute this, and some netizens bluntly said: "Brilliant fighters are out-and-out third-generation machines! Not to mention playing the standard fifth-generation F35, it is difficult to fight with the Pakistani Railway's Xiaolong fighter! "

This netizen's spit is not unreasonable. First of all, the overall design idea of Indian Glorious Fighter stayed in the 1980s, which also affected the aerodynamic layout and structure of this fighter. The famous fighters at that time were Su -27 and American F 16 and F 15. Therefore, brilliance largely refers to the shape and performance of these three fighters. All three fighters have fallen behind the times, so from this perspective, glory seems to have derailed with the times.

In addition, the Indian Glory fighter is a light fighter, not a multi-purpose heavy fighter Su Like -30. Its empty weight is 8.5 tons, the maximum horizontal flight speed is 1.7 Mach, and the ceiling is only about 1.5 million meters, precisely because it is a light fighter.

Therefore, the Indian side has not announced the glorious operational radius, but according to the general operational radius of three generations of light fighters, the operational radius of the glorious fighter will not exceed 1000 km.

It can also cover southern Pakistan. If the distance is too far, this fighter can't stay in the air for a long time, let alone fight.

However, compared with the above problems, the most important thing is that the weapons mounted by Indian glorious fighters need to be imported! In other words, if the United States and Russia do not provide relevant weapons and equipment, then glory can only take off naked and confront Pakistan Xiaolong, which is very embarrassing for India.

In fact, soldiers are very important, and it is even more important for soldiers to mount weapons, because weapons will be the greatest fighting capacity of soldiers and will not put themselves in a very unfavorable position. Nor can it be called complete combat capability, so India's so-called complete combat capability is very likely to be mixed with water.