Big name: Indian Air Force forms new Squadron Flying Bullets

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In India, decided on the second squadron, which will be equipped with Indian-made fighters Tejas. On May 27, a ceremony is scheduled for introducing a squadron with the latest combat aircraft into the Indian Air Force. This ceremony will be opened by the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force of India, Marshal Rakesh Bhadauria.

We are talking about the squadron under the loud name "Flying bullets." She got the 18th number in the structure of the Indian Air Force. The location of the 18th Air Force squadron will be Sulur (Tamil Nadu) in the south of the country. The 45th Squadron of the Indian Air Force is also located there. It is notable for the fact that it became the first in the military aviation, which began to receive fighters HAL Tejas. The name of this aviation formation is Flying Daggers.



It is reported that the Commander-in-Chief of Bhadauria will assign the Flying Bullets Squadron to the name of the Indian pilot Nirmal Singh Sehon, who showed himself during the repulsion of the Pakistani Air Force attack on Srinagar airfield in 1971. The Pakistani Air Force attacked an airfield on US-made F-86 Saber aircraft. Nirmal Sehon took off on a British-made Folland Gnat light fighter. Entering the battle with six Pakistani Air Force F-86 Saber planes, the 28-year-old pilot died. In India, he is honored as a national hero.

The first Flying Bullet Squadron in India was formed in 1965.

For reference: HAL Tejas - an easy single-seat multipurpose Indian fighter. In the Indian Air Force, such aircraft began to arrive in 2015. To date, the cost of a unit with updated software, but without weapons, is less than $ 30 million. Maximum takeoff weight is 15,5 tons. The engines used are from General Electric. Maximum speed - 1,8 M. Practical ceiling - 16 km. Range - up to 2 thousand km. Suspension points - 8.

Tejas in addition to the regular version has a deck version LCA (N). While fighters of this modification are being tested.
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    1. +1
      25 May 2020 15: 54
      They work. The road will be overpowered by a walker.
      1. +1
        25 May 2020 16: 12
        Big name: Indian Air Force forms new Squadron Flying Bullets

        So many different puns came to mind .. but the most harmless one is "Flying Dooles" laughing
        1. +4
          25 May 2020 16: 32
          And they do not recommend making bullets from this substance ...
          1. +1
            25 May 2020 19: 39
            Aavaaaa, there are still bullets from it)))
            1. +1
              25 May 2020 23: 44
              Quote: Svarog

              So many different puns occurred to me

              And I immediately think of Suvorov's "Bullet is a fool" laughing
      2. +11
        25 May 2020 16: 27
        Quote: qobnvmog
        Road going by walking.

        This is exactly what Polish tourists consoled themselves on an ecological tour of the Kostroma forest.
        1. +6
          25 May 2020 16: 53
          All the same, they blamed us (Susanin), they didn’t lay the route there, or rather they didn’t.
          1. +2
            25 May 2020 17: 13
            Quote: Ravil_Asnafovich
            Blamed us anyway

            Naturally. Soon they will begin to demand compensation for moral and material damage.
        2. +2
          26 May 2020 00: 30
          Quote: Vasyan1971
          This is exactly what Polish tourists consoled themselves on an ecological tour of the Kostroma forest

          So their guide was also knowledgeable, he told them a lot of interesting things during the ecotour. Especially the Poles remembered the final phase of the tour, where the guide Susanin told about their origin, their relationship and about that Christmas tree on which they can spin, well, or spin, on this Christmas tree ... laughing
    2. +11
      25 May 2020 15: 55
      Actually, a bullet has a one-way flight ...
      1. +2
        25 May 2020 16: 00
        Quote: Leader of the Redskins
        Actually, a bullet has a one-way flight ...

        But why? Sometimes they come back, with a rebound ...
        1. +2
          25 May 2020 17: 03
          I even know. what march will they have
      2. +1
        25 May 2020 16: 00
        Maybe such a tradition in those Mevsts. This is the name of the Kurdish national army of Peshmerga - who is opposite death - is also not about optimism, but about the willingness to die.
      3. +2
        25 May 2020 16: 08
        Quote: Leader of the Redskins
        Actually, a bullet has a one-way flight ...

        And not always hits the target ...
      4. +4
        25 May 2020 16: 54
        Quote: Leader of the Redskins
        Actually, a bullet has a one-way flight ...

        winkedThen they need to be renamed in boomerangs.Yes
        1. +4
          25 May 2020 16: 57
          The Boomerang aircraft was in service with Australia during WWII. Alas - busy ...
          1. 0
            25 May 2020 19: 12
            Quote: Leader of the Redskins
            The Boomerang aircraft was in service with Australia during WWII. Alas, it is busy.

            And Flying Boomerang?
      5. +3
        25 May 2020 17: 14
        It's good that not "flying cows".
        1. +1
          26 May 2020 06: 28
          knn54 (Nikolay) Yesterday, 17: 14 NEW
          +2
          It's good that not "flying cows".
          Neither, nor - it is sacred among the Indians! wink
        2. 0
          27 May 2020 02: 55
          But but .... belay for Hindus, the "cow" is sacred! lol Can not! .... wassat
    3. 0
      25 May 2020 15: 58
      "Flying bullets"

      Looks like they will also be launched by powder gases, but they will have 5 years on the way with their own 5th generation engine with a draft of 16 tons.
      Oh, well done Indians, they started with a lousy copy of "Mirage", and already the 5th generation unit is going to be created, and the cool ones come up with a name; already a stingy man's tear of pride appears for them; I want to grow up to be like them :)
      1. +3
        25 May 2020 16: 04
        Quote: Voletsky
        and already the 5th generation unit is going to create, and the coolest come up with the name

        I think it's better to create first, and then call
        Quote: Voletsky
        I want to grow up to be like them :)

        Have to start with dancing laughing
        1. -1
          25 May 2020 16: 13
          Faberge interferes
          1. +1
            25 May 2020 16: 26
            Quote: Voletsky
            Faberge interferes

            There is no chance hi drinks
    4. 0
      25 May 2020 16: 03
      Flying bullets ..... heh, at least not ships on foot))))
      1. +1
        25 May 2020 16: 08
        Everything is correct. "Lying bullet" doesn't sound like that.
    5. +1
      25 May 2020 16: 07
      We are talking about the squadron under the loud name "Flying bullets."

      A bullet is a disposable thing.
      "As you name the yacht, so it will float." ©
    6. +2
      25 May 2020 16: 08
      Commander-in-Chief of Bhadauriya will assign the Flying Bullets Squadron to the name of the Indian pilot Nirmal Singh Sehon, who showed himself during the repulsion of the Pakistani Air Force attack on Srinagar airfield in 1971. The Pakistani Air Force attacked an airfield on US-made F-86 Saber aircraft. Nirmal Sehon took off on a British-made Folland Gnat light fighter. Entering the battle with six Pakistani Air Force F-86 Saber planes, the 28-year-old pilot died. In India, he is honored as a national hero.

      The first Flying Bullet Squadron in India was formed in 1965.
      Everything is correct - heroes must be immortalized, and traditions should be protected. And as for the name .. well, the main thing is that the Indians would like the pilots to be proud ..
    7. +1
      25 May 2020 16: 12
      The bullet is a fool.
    8. +2
      25 May 2020 16: 18
      And the first battalion of tanks "Arjun 2" will be called "Driving Tanks"?
    9. +3
      25 May 2020 16: 20
      There is such an expression, or rather a comparison - "like a bullet from cakahi" as if it did not work out with this project recourse
    10. 0
      25 May 2020 17: 15
      If only not "Flying Coffins". This has happened in the history of aviation.
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    12. +1
      25 May 2020 18: 10
      So do they sing or dance?
      1. rMN
        +3
        25 May 2020 18: 26
        Whistle !!! They are bullets
    13. 0
      25 May 2020 18: 20
      I don’t understand why everyone here is laughing and scoffing at them? They are just starting and doing their own ... ...
      And if you want to laugh, let's laugh at our military-industrial complex !!!
      OCD Platform 2010, Kamaz began to draw a likeness of the MZTK tractors. They are ? No !! The Russian Federation begged Lukashenko to sell the MZKT plant. He refused. DPRK and China make such tractors in their countries, rather than buying wink
      ROC "Premier 476" - early 2000. Is there AWACS -A-100 in the Troops? No !!
      Boat Lada project 677. Bookmark Sankut-Petersburg 1997. They were commissioned in 2010 !!!!!! As a test bench, not a combat boat laughing .
      She was supposed to be with VNEU, Rubin could not master. In 2010, Malachite began to develop VNEU ..
      2020 is VNEU? Two KB tried to create. NO it !!!!
      Military transport IL 112V-2004 MO approved. Is he in the army? NO !!!
      Ptur Hermes-A. The beginning of 2000..Are there any troops? No!
      Let's remember the Bulava? ... ... ... ... ..And now let's laugh and laugh about the development timeline and the pretentious shouts of "have no analogues in the world" laughing !
      1. +2
        25 May 2020 19: 46
        The BAZ copes with the tractors perfectly, Bulava is standing on the database, with VNEU we have left the outdated Stirling and do our own, which is harder than the finished scheme, but you can keep silent about aviation, after the EBN, which the aviation industry just ruined, now it’s actually being re-created, at the modern level . And about the Chinese tractors: the MZKT documentation bought for a penny is not quite its own. And without the Russian engines and wheels MZKT, alas, will not leave anywhere.
        1. -3
          25 May 2020 20: 51
          Baz does not cope. Iskander, Yars, S-300, S-400 (all-height detector), coastal Bastion, Ball. Everything is on the MZKT chassis ... ... ... Where did they leave with VNEU, its financing has already been stopped)). For 20 years there is nothing. Swedes have their own VNEU. Germans, French, Spaniards, Chinese and Japanese, and from countries that bought boats from them ...... How many years did the Mace and how many successful launches did it have?)))
          1. 0
            26 May 2020 07: 56
            You are, to put it mildly, not knowledgeable and do trollo. Repetition of the devil when the scheme is not its own.
          2. 0
            27 May 2020 03: 04
            What do you want? Designed, made and immediately to the troops ??? But no! Until childhood diseases are cured, any other new military equipment goes through the full test phase. Yes, here we are losing enormous resources. like time. But keep in mind, everything is done from scratch, and without ripping off old designs, This is not for you to China, where they rip off other people's designs and give out everything as your own!
    14. -1
      25 May 2020 19: 31
      The plane itself may not be bad. Who knows..
    15. 0
      25 May 2020 20: 50
      Quote: V.I.P.
      I don’t understand why everyone here is laughing and scoffing at them? They are just starting and doing their own ... ...
      And if you want to laugh, let's laugh at our military-industrial complex !!!
      OCD Platform 2010, Kamaz began to draw a likeness of the MZTK tractors. They are ? No !! The Russian Federation begged Lukashenko to sell the MZKT plant. He refused. DPRK and China make such tractors in their countries, rather than buying wink
      ROC "Premier 476" - early 2000. Is there AWACS -A-100 in the Troops? No !!
      Boat Lada project 677. Bookmark Sankut-Petersburg 1997. They were commissioned in 2010 !!!!!! As a test bench, not a combat boat laughing .
      She was supposed to be with VNEU, Rubin could not master. In 2010, Malachite began to develop VNEU ..
      2020 is VNEU? Two KB tried to create. NO it !!!!
      Military transport IL 112V-2004 MO approved. Is he in the army? NO !!!
      Ptur Hermes-A. The beginning of 2000..Are there any troops? No!
      Let's remember the Bulava? ... ... ... ... ..And now let's laugh and laugh about the development timeline and the pretentious shouts of "have no analogues in the world" laughing !

      well, not noah))))) give a break from heavy thoughts ..... smile .. relax ..... not noah shorter
    16. 0
      25 May 2020 20: 52
      "mistress .... bullets whistled over the head ........ BULLETS ????? and boots overhead did not whistle" (C)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWhIhh2AVUQ
    17. 0
      25 May 2020 21: 04
      Indians work. Slowly go forward.

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