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
2. JF-17 Thunder
- Single-Engine
- Light-weight multirole combat aircraft
- Origin: Pakistan/China
3. Dassault Mirage III
- Single-Engine
- Multirole combat aircraft
- Origin: France
4. Dassault Mirage 5
- Single-Engine
- Supersonic attack aircraft
- Origin: France
5. Chengdu F-7
- Single-engine
- Interceptor combat aircraft
- Origin: China
India
- Currently Indian Air Force has got 8 active combat aircraft:
1. MiG-21
- Single-Engine
- Supersonic fighter and interceptor
- Origin: Russia
2. MiG-2
- Single-engine
- Variable-geometry ground attack combat aircraft
- Origin: Russia
3. MiG-29
- Twin-engine
- Multirole combat aircraft
- Origin: Russia
4. HAL Tejas
- Single-engine
- Light-weight multirole combat aircraft
- Origin: India
5. Mirage 2000
- Single-engine
- Fourth-generation multirole combat aircraft
- Origin: France
6. Sukhoi Su-30
- Twin-engine
- Supermaneuverable multirole combat aircraft
- Origin: Russia
7. Dassault Rafale
- Twin-engine
- Canard delta wing multirole combat fighter
- Origin: France
8. SEPECAT Jaguar
- Single-engine
- Ground attack combat aircraft
- Origin: France/UK
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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