24.03.2004, 19:35
Zitat:India and America today finished a joint Air Force exercise in Gwalior, in which the top pilots from the two countries matched their skills against each other..
While the all-powerful US Air Force had an easy run in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Indian top guns amazingly shot them out of the sky.
For the last ten days, five American F-15s have been faced off against Indian Sukhoi-30s, Mirage 2000s and MiG-21s in the skies above Gwalior.
On the first day all four American planes were shot down. Never once did the Indians come off second.
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Zitat:Ask him about the SU-30K and Henkel says: ``Its a big aircraft.'' He would know; the F-15 was known to be one of the biggest aircraft for a long time till the SU-30 arrived..
Over the weekend, USAF pilots convened an urgent meeting for a brainstorming session to work out the tactics to deal with the SU-30K.
``It surprised them,'' says an IAF pilot, adding: ``I don't think they were expecting that kind of performance''.
Dave Skalicky would agree with him. He has flown over the Taj Mahal, seen the Himalayas and come back to Gwlaior, several joint exercises later, with a new-found respect for his Indian counterparts. His colleagues have had a ``few rides on the SU-30K and the MiG-21 Bison''.
About the much-talked about MiG-21, he says: ``It's very good and we were surprised with its new avionics''.
On Wednesday morning, as four USAF 15C took to the skies to ``defend'' the Gwalior air base against ``invading'' IAF strike aircraft, both had a ``mission'' in hand. Forty minutes later, Gwalior was ``bombed'' by an IAF MiG-27 escorted by a fleet of SU-30Ks and Mirage-2000s.
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loooooooooool !! :laugh:
Da haben die Amis mit ihren "achsovielen" Flugstunden von den Indern mal so richtig den Arsch versohlt bekommen ...*ggg*