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Top Active Combat Aircraft Of Pakistan & Indian Air Force | F-16, Jf-17, MiG-29..

Top Active Combat Aircraft Of Pakistan & Indian Air Force
(Last Updated On: October 18, 2021)

Air force is a branch of a national military that conducts aerial warfare. No country in the world can ignore the importance of Air Force. For a strong & invincible air force, a country needs most sophisticated combat aircraft.

Pakistan & India have been arch rivals for decades and both are having combat aircraft. So, let’s see the combat aircraft of both the countries.

 

Pakistan

  • Currently Pakistan Air Force has got 5 active combat aircraft:

 

1. General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon

  • Single-Engine
  • Supersonic multirole combat aircraft
  • Origin: United States Of America
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon

 

2. JF-17 Thunder

  • Single-Engine
  • Light-weight multirole combat aircraft
  • Origin: Pakistan/China
JF-17 Thunder

 

3. Dassault Mirage III

  • Single-Engine
  • Multirole combat aircraft
  • Origin: France
Dassault Mirage III

 

4. Dassault Mirage 5

  • Single-Engine
  • Supersonic attack aircraft
  • Origin: France
Dassault Mirage III

 

5. Chengdu F-7

  • Single-engine
  • Interceptor combat aircraft
  • Origin: China
Chengdu F-7

 

India

  • Currently Indian Air Force has got 8 active combat aircraft:

 

1. MiG-21

  • Single-Engine
  • Supersonic fighter and interceptor
  • Origin: Russia
MiG-21

 

2. MiG-2

  • Single-engine
  • Variable-geometry ground attack combat aircraft
  • Origin: Russia
 MiG-27

 

3. MiG-29

  • Twin-engine
  • Multirole combat aircraft
  • Origin: Russia
MiG-29

 

4. HAL Tejas

  • Single-engine
  • Light-weight multirole combat aircraft
  • Origin: India
HAL Tejas

 

5. Mirage 2000

  • Single-engine
  • Fourth-generation multirole combat aircraft
  • Origin: France
Mirage 2000

 

6. Sukhoi Su-30

  • Twin-engine
  • Supermaneuverable multirole combat aircraft
  • Origin: Russia

 

Sukhoi Su-30

 

7. Dassault Rafale

  • Twin-engine
  • Canard delta wing multirole combat fighter
  • Origin: France
Dassault Rafale

 

8. SEPECAT Jaguar

  • Single-engine
  • Ground attack combat aircraft
  • Origin: France/UK
SEPECAT Jaguar

 

Single-Engine Aircraft Vs Double-Engine Aircraft

  • Compare to twin-engine combat, single-engine aircraft are light-weight, which provides it superior control and maneuver capability.
  • Today in the modern world, twin-engine combat aircraft suffer from more failures.
  • Twin-engine aircraft are useful when you are required to take additional payload or weight because they are more powerful as compared to single-engine.
  • Maintenance cost of twin-engine combat aircraft is higher as compared to single-engine combat aircraft.
  • The biggest benefit of twin-engine aircraft is that when one engine fails, it can fly on the other one, but its performance, to the great extent is decreased and could be easily hit by other aircraft.

 

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