印度媒体报道：Su30MKI年轻的飞行员在单对单的狗斗中跟皇家空军王牌飞行员驾驶的EF2000打成平局！RAF EUROFIGHTER TYPHOONS AND IAF SU-30 MKIS MATCH-UP
转自TO THEIR POTENTIALS IN THEIR FIRST-EVER AERIAL COMBAT
Sukhoi-30s square off with RAF Typhoons
Much was at stake of its reputation when for the first-time, the Royal Air Force's (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon, developed by a consortium of European manufacturers and recently inducted into the RAF, was to engage in any kind of an aerial combat with any non-RAF/NATO fighter.
The Indian Air Force's (IAF) Sukhoi-30 MKI 'air superiority fighter', here for the bilateral air exercise at Waddington for 'Exercise Indradhanush-2007', had an opponent for a befitting duel.
The operational part of the 'Exercise Indradhanush-2007' began with a series of 1 vs 1 air combat sorties. Both the variants landed with their much-touted reputations intact as each side tested their potential with their adversary in the air to their limits. These sorties were premised not entirely on having winners or losers – but more for their evaluator and training values as encapsulated in the objectives. And both sides ended-up sharing an enhanced respect for each other's capabilities – both in terms of training values, and combat potentials of the diverse aerial platforms.
While the RAF fielded some of their most-experienced and highly-qualified pilots, some of them being very senior performance evaluators in active service, the IAF pilots were a mix of 'young to middle-level pilots' from the 'Rhinos' squadron. The RAF pilots were candid in their admission of the Su-30 MKI's observed superior manouevring in the air, just as they had studied, prepared and anticipated. The IAF pilots on their part were also visibly impressed by the Typhoon's agility in the air.
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