The R-77/AA-12 'Adder'
Posted on 07/17/2009 4:33:05 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
IAF’s air-to-air missiles are faulty: Report
Zeenews Bureau
New Delhi: Nearly half of Indian Air Force’s beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missiles that were tested either did not home in on targets during evaluations or failed ground tests because they were ageing much before their shelf lives, a report claimed on Thursday.
As per the report by an leading English daily, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its yet to be released report has raised serious questions on the usability of the R 77 (RVV-AE) BVR missiles, each costing Rs 2 crore, which are fitted on board the Su-30 MKIs, MiG-29s and MiG-21 Bisons.
India has been procuring these missiles from Russia since 1996 and has even ordered for more than 2,000 missiles after the Kargil conflict out of which 1,000 have already been delivered.
The missiles failure has affected the “operational preparedness” of the IAF, the daily said quoting CAG report.
Moreover, just yesterday Defence Minister A K Antony had disclosed that there were structural problems with India’s lead fighter planes, the MiG-29.
The R-77/AA-12 'Adder'
The Indians should go with a winner.
This is not good. India is an ally vs. China in the region.
Those copies just don’t work well some times.
Russian missiles. Heh heh. What a surprise. /s
One comforting factor is that the Chinese have a lot of the same weapons-more so than the IAF.
Time and time again their crappy hardware fails and yet the world just keeps buying it. lol Russia’s got a better scam going than Madoff did.
They are very good for a war with Pakistan where everybody shoots and shoots and shoots but no one gets killed.
I didn’t think that “spray and pray” was a viable strategy for aerial combat.
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Reliability is one of the most important factors in judging how good a weapon is. If it isn't going to do what it is supposed to, the men operating it might as well be in the capitol rolling out the red carpet and cooking a tasty meal for the conquerors.
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