6 injuries in 20 months... five pilots died... MiG-21 planes determined to answer!
MiG 21 plane
Amid the current spate of fighter jet crashes, the indian air Force has now determined to retire one extra squadron of Russian-made MiG-21 Bison planes with the aid of using september 30. On thursday evening, a MiG-21 Type sixty-nine education plane crashed in Rajasthan's Parmer, killing pilots, together with a younger pilot Lt A Paul, and Wing commander Rana.
After this, the most effective 3 squadrons may be in provider and that they too may be phased out with the aid of using 2025," reasserts withinside the IAF informed information organization ANI.
Now each year, every one of those planes may be withdrawn from a squadron, they said. The 51st Squadron is well-known for flying Wing commander (now Group Captain) Abhinandan Varthaman's F-sixteen to repel a Pakistani air assault on india on 27 february 2019.
This is the most effective example wherein a MiG-21 has overwhelmed an F sixteen in an air-to-air fight. The IAF is changing the MiG-21 warring parties with an extra successful plane together with the Su-30 and the indigenous mild fight plane (LCA).
In the closing 20 months, six MiG-21 planes have crashed and 5 pilots have misplaced their lives. The MiG-21s have been imagined to be retired lengthy ago, however, the put-off in introducing the LCA tejas has pressured the IAF to maintain flying those planes. The IAF conducts significant pre-flight tests on those planes. And all protection factors are sorted earlier than the pilot takes off, officers said. ANI said that the decommissioned squadron may be reactivated withinside the close to a destiny with the extra successful plane.
