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One Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot was killed and another seriously injured in the first-ever Su-30 MKI fighter jet crash on Thursday in the country near here. The deceased pilot has been identified as Wing Commander P S Nara and the injured as Wing Commander S V Munje, IAF officials said in New Delhi. A court of inquiry has been ordered into the mishap. According to Defence PRO Lt Col N N Joshi, the crash took place around 10.20 hours about 70 km southeast of here near Rajmathai-Hariyasar village in Rajasthan when the two pilots flew out the aircraft on a routine sortie. Within a few minutes of taking off, the pilots reported trouble in the aircraft and both ejected out of the cockpit, after directing the aircraft on to a vacant agricultural land. But both pilots suffered serious injuries and were rushed by an IAF rescue team to a nearby military hospital, sources said. While Wg Cdr Nara succumbed to injuries, the condition of Wg Cdr Munje is said to be stable. The front line fighter aircraft and the pilots, sources said, belonged to one of the Sukhoi squadrons based in Lohegaon near Pune. The aircraft from the squadron had come here to participate in regular flying exercises that they are subjected to annually, sources said.
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The Su30 crash is truly sad. Given the history of Russian jets in IAF service the Sukhois had an exceptional safety record.
RIP Wing Commander P S Nara
f18 shornet vs mig35
1. only adavantage f18 has against mig35 is its apg79 and that will vanish soon when mig gets larger diameter aesa radar and that will provide equivalent detection range compared to apg79(albeit the t/r modules r more miniaturized in apg79)
2. mig35 has better thrust/weight ratio than f18 and this allows
mig35 to take off in just 200-250 meters.
3.mig35 is more manouverable than f18
4.sustained intantaneous turn rate of su30mki is 24 degree and for f15 it is 16 degree so what is turn rate for f18 is around 12-14 degree
mig35 has better thrust/weight ratio and it is smaller than su30mki so it prduce lot less drag allowing better/equal turn rate which is twice better than f18
5.no TVC in f18 and optional for mig35 which has been proven on mig29ovt.
6.ATFLIR IRST on f18 is in seperate pod while IRST on mig35 is inbuilt.
ATFLIR will only do air to ground survillence or air to air survillence at one time but not simultaneously but OLS35 will do both tasks simultaneously because there r 2 irst on mig35 one near radar and one on air intake to do both tasks
7.f18 able to carry 2 tons more payload than mig35 ,but again even considering 6 tons payload mig35 able to carry pretty good payload
8.mig is cheaper than f18e/f
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