Defence Inshot

The term Elephant walk dates back to the  WORLD WAR 2 when the large fleets of bombers had to take of for the bombing missions in europe and it included more t5han 1000 bomber aircrafts . Those who observed this said that the taxing of the aircraft from nose to tail configuration taking off in a single filed  looked like elephants walking in a field and from there the term elephant walk originated     The benefits of these exercises is that a airforce can show its strength of deploying maximum numbers of its aircrafts at a given point of time and this also depicts the bond of synergy between the airmen and the pilots of different squadrons in a air force  As advised by the Prime Minister of India to celebrate the 75 years of independence all around the country and as well as the armed forces the IAF has done its part and has payed its homage to the fallen heroes of India  both before and after the independence by conducting a massive elephant walk on its Ambala Air Force base which

 The indian air force on 28 August 2007 initiated a program MRCA or  Multi role combat aircraft to procure a total of 126 fighter aircrafts at a cost of 55,000 crore rupees or $7.7 billion and the programme was to fulfill the gap between the Lighter fighter i the indian air force i.e the LCA Tejas and the heavyweight fighter SU 30 MKI The contest featured 6 fighters from all around the world and they are as follows American F 18 and F21 which was the upgraded variant of the american F 16  which is also used by Pakistan , French Rafale , European union's Eurofighter Typhoon , Russian Mig 35 and t5he swedish SAAB Gripen   . On 27 April 2011 after a rigorous tech evaluation by the Indian air force the Eurofighter Typhoon and the French Rafale where selected but since both the aircrafts where of the western origin , They had very high cost and the budget exceeded the  allotted fund for the programme . And at the same time the Indian air force had ver

 RAFALE     CONTROVERSY WHEN WAS RAFALE FIRST CHOSEN    ? Indian air force had been operating the mig 21 since the 63 which were the greatest aircrafts of their times . The average life of an fighter aircraft is 30 years and and these aircrafts had already compleated their life cycle by the 1995 but the indian air force had no option other than to maintain these old aged aircraft in active service the mig 21 of iaf  More over india lacked in the air delivary of its NUCLEAR BOMBS because at that time only the mirage 2000 and the jaguar where able to perform this role and these aircrafts could only perform their role of nuclear delivary for Pakistan but if INDIA and CHINA went on a nuclear war and if all the indian nuclear ballestic misseles are intersepted in the atmosphere then the aircrafts whould have to do that rale but then the mirages and the jaguars did not had the range to hit the big cities like SHANGHAI , BEIGING , NIANJING, HONGKONG, SHENYANG, GUANGZHO