Sukhoi Su-30 News
Group Captain Naveen Kumar Tiwari flew President Murmu in a Sukhoi-30 MKI that took off from the Indian Air Force base in Assam.
In the fighter jet crash, the deceased pilot flying the Indian Air Force's Mirage 2000 aircraft has been identified as Wing Commander Hanumanth Rao Sarathi.
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Sukhoi Su-27s, Su-30SMs, Su-35Ss of the Russian Knights (Vityazi), an aerobatic team of the country's Aerospace Force carried out breathtaking displays over the skies of Kubinka, near Moscow on July 3, 2020. The Su-27s, Su-30SMs, Su-35Ss were flying in a single formation for the first time and their pilots mesmerised the audience with some of the most spectacular aerobatic and gravity-defying manoeuvres possible.
Southern Military District launched the Sukhoi Su-30 twin-engine, two-seat multirole fighter to intercept the US P-8 Poseidon, RC-135 and KC-135 aircraft and ensure they do not breach the Russian airspace.
However, the US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress nuclear bombers flew at a considerable distance from Russia's airspace. The bombers were tracked during their flight by Russian Sukhoi Su-30s, Su-35s and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31 fighters and radars.
Armed with LRASMs, the B-1Bs with their advanced stand-off and counter-ship capabilities can destroy a designated target within groups of surface warships in electronic warfare environments.
The skies over the neutral waters of Black and Baltic Seas saw some action on Friday (May 29, 2020) when Russian Sukhoi Su-27P and Su-30M combat aircraft intercepted the United States of Amerca Air Force B-1B Lancer strategic bombers. The Sukhoi fighters were launched after the B-1B bombers were detected by the Russian Western and Southern military districts radars.
The US Southern Command, responsible for military activities in Latin America and the Caribbean, claimed the Venezuelan Sukhoi Su-30 "aggressively shadowed" the EP-3E aircraft. The US Southern Command also tweeted photos and videos of the Su-30.
The Indian Navy will have to make do with its aircraft carriers and submarines for now.
The indigenously developed weapon is designed to destroy runways and other airfield infrastructure, so adversarial war planes are unable to even take-off.
There are no reports of any on-ground injuries while the two pilots inside the plane also ejected safely.
IAF sources said they found the performance of the HAL Tejas satisfactory.
It will now focus on working with the Indian Navy on dominance drills over the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.
A patch of Lucknow-Agra Expressway will be closed for traffic on Monday, a day ahead Indian Air Force (IAF) planes take part in an exercise to use the highway as landing strip on October 24.
The fighter jet had disappeared with two pilots close to the China border.
Vietnam has rescued one of the two pilots who went missing on a training flight on a Russian-made jet fighter, state media and officials said today.
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