The Indian government has summoned the US ambassador over the clearance of F-16 fighter jets by the US administration to Pakistan worth nearly $700 million. "We are disappointed at decision of the Obama administration to notify the sale of F-16 aircrafts to Pakistan. We disagree with their rationale that such arms transfers help to combat terrorism," the ministry of external affairs said on Saturday. US ambassador to India, Richard Verma is to be summoned about the matter, news agency ANI reported Saturday. The Indian government said Pakistan's record in encouraging cross-border terrorism "for the last many years speaks for itself". Despite mounting opposition...
Russian Falcons Aerobatics Team flying a Sukhoi Su-30SM supermaneuverable fighter jets. Falcons of Russia (Sokoli Rossii) aerobatic team performed demonstration flight on Su-30SM aircraft (instead of Su-27 jets) for the first time in October 2014. The SU-30SM is a two place multi-role fighter and attack aircraft that features the powerful passive electronically scanned array (PESA) BARS radar, glass cockpits, some advanced French avionics, full fly-by-wire flight controls, updated electronic countermeasures as well as forward canards and thrust vectoring for super maneuverability.
Fired missiles can be evaded by hard maneuvers. Infra Red missiles lock on can be defeated if the targeted aircraft fly out of the missile seekers field of view. According to industry expert for Smart Weapons and Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Debajit Sarkar, With radar guided missiles, it is possible to avoid or break radar lock (“Beam Turn” and “Doppler Turn”) by adopting hard turns that will cause the missile to lose the lock and consequently miss the target . While fighter aircrafts will not face problems in adopting the evasive maneuvers we are talking here about a behemoth that has a...
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