Dassault Rafale muIndia Air Force
Rafale anogara paAmbala base muIndia mushure mekubhururuka kwemakumbo maviri kubva kuFrance Chikunguru 27-29, 2020. India yave mushandisi wechitatu wekune dzimwe nyika wevarwi veFrance mushure meEgypt neQatar.
Pakupera kwaChikunguru 2020, kuendeswa kwemakumi matatu nematanhatu Dassault Aviation Rafale multirole fighters kuenda kuIndia kwakatanga. Ndege dzakatengwa muna 36, yaive yekupedzisira (kunyangwe isingaite sezvaitarisirwa) yechirongwa chakatangwa mukutanga kwezana ramakore rechi2016. Nokudaro, India yakava mushandisi wechitatu wekune dzimwe nyika wevarwi veFrance mushure meEgypt neQatar. Zvichida uku hakusi kupera kwenyaya yeRafale muIndia. Parizvino ari mukwikwidzi muzvirongwa zviviri zvinotevera zvine chinangwa chekutora ndege nyowani dzekurwira yeIndia Air Force neNavy.
Kubva yawana kuzvitonga, India yakashuvira kuve simba guru mudunhu reSouth Asia uye, zvakanyanya, munzvimbo yeIndia Ocean. Saizvozvo, kunyangwe nepedyo nenyika mbiri dzine hutsinye - People's Republic of China (PRC) nePakistan - vanochengeta rimwe remauto makuru pasirese. Indian Air Force (Bharatiya Vayu Sena, BVS; Indian Air Force, IAF) yanga iri pachinzvimbo chechina kwemakumi emakore akati wandei mushure meUnited States, China neRussian Federation maererano nehuwandu hwendege dzehondo. Izvi zvakakonzerwa nekutenga kwakanyanya kwakaitwa muchikamu chekupedzisira chezana ramakore re23 uye kutanga kwekugadzira rezinesi kumafekitori eHindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) muBangalore. MuSoviet Union, uyezve muRussia, varwi veMiG-29MF neMiG-23, MiG-27BN uye MiG-30ML fighter-bombers uye Su-2000MKI multipurpose fighters vakatengwa, muUK - Jaguars fighter-bombers, uye muFrance. - XNUMX Mirage fighters (ona inset).
Makurukota eDziviriro eIndia Manohar Parrikar neFrance Jean-Yves Le Drian vanosaina kondirakiti inokosha 7,87 bhiriyoni euros kuti vatenge 36 Rafale neIndia; New Delhi, Gunyana 23, 2016
Zvisinei, kuitira kutsiva mauto makuru eMiG-21 varwi uye vachiri kuchengetedza nhamba yaidiwa yezvikwata zvehondo zve42-44, zvimwe zvekutenga zvaidiwa. Zvinoenderana nehurongwa hwekuvandudza hweIAF, ndege yeIndia yekurwisa ndege LCA (Light Combat Aircraft) Tejas yaizove mutsivi weMiG-21, asi kushanda pairi kwakanonoka (yekutanga tekinoroji demonstrator yakatanga kubhururuka muna 2001, pachinzvimbo che - maererano. kuronga - muna 1990.). Pakati pemakore ekuma90, chirongwa chakatangwa chekusimudzira varwi ve125 MiG-21bis kuUPG Bison vhezheni kuitira kuti varambe vari mubasa rinoshanda kusvika pakaiswa LCA Tejas. Kutenga kwekuwedzera Mirage 1999s uye kugadzira rezinesi kuHAL kwakatariswawo muna 2002-2000, asi zano rakazosiiwa. Panguva iyoyo, mubvunzo wekutsvaga mutsivi weJaguar uye MiG-27ML fighter-bombers wakauya pamberi. Pakutanga kwezana ramakore re2015, zvakange zvakarongwa kuti marudzi ese ari maviri aizobviswa kunze kwebasa kunosvika XNUMX. Naizvozvo, chakanyanya kukosha chaive chekuwana nyowani yepakati-multi-role kurwisa ndege (MMRCA).
Chirongwa cheMMRCA
Pasi pechirongwa cheMMRCA, yaifanirwa kutenga ndege zana nemakumi maviri nenhanhatu, izvo zvaizoita kuti zvikwanise kugadzirira zvikwata zvinomwe (126 mune imwe neimwe) nemidziyo. Makopi gumi nemasere ekutanga aifanira kupihwa nemugadziri akasarudzwa, nepo mamwe 18 makopi aizogadzirwa pasi perezinesi reHAL. Mune ramangwana, kurongeka kunogona kuwedzerwa nemamwe makopi 18-108, saka mari yose yekutengeserana (kusanganisira mari yekutenga, kugadzirisa uye zvisara) inogona kuva kubva pa63-74 kusvika ku10 mabhiriyoni emadhora emadhora. Ndosaka chirongwa cheMMRCA chakamutsa kufarira kukuru pakati pevagadziri vendege dzehondo dzepasi rose.
Muna 2004, Hurumende yeIndia yakatumira maRFI ekutanga kundege ina: French Dassault Aviation, American Lockheed Martin, Russian RAC MiG uye Swedish Saab. MaFrench akapa Mirage 2000-5 murwi, maAmerican F-16 Block 50+/52+ Viper, maRussia MiG-29M, uye veSweden the Gripen. Chikumbiro chaicho chezvikumbiro (RFP) chaifanirwa kutangwa muna Zvita 2005 asi chakanonoka kakawanda. Kudaidzira kwezvikumbiro kwakapedzwa muna Nyamavhuvhu 28, 2007. Zvichakadaro, Dassault yakavhara mutsara wekugadzira weMirage 2000, saka kupa kwayo kwakagadziridzwa kwaive kwendege yeRafale. Lockheed Martin akapa shanduro yakanyatsogadzirirwa yeF-16IN Super Viper yekuIndia, zvichienderana nemhinduro dzehunyanzvi dzinoshandiswa muEmirates F-16 Block 60 Desert Falcon. MaRussia, zvakare, akatsiva MiG-29M neMiG-35 yakavandudzwa, nepo veSweden vachipa Gripen NG. Pamusoro pezvo, imwe Eurofighter consortium ine Typhoon neBoeing yakapinda mumakwikwi neF/A-18IN, iyo "Indian" vhezheni yeF/A-18 Super Hornet.
Nguva yekupedzisira yezvikumbiro yaive 28 Kubvumbi 2008. Pakukumbira kwevaIndia, mugadziri wega wega akaendesa ndege yavo (muzviitiko zvakawanda zvisati zvave mukugadziriswa kwekupedzisira) kuIndia kunoongororwa neAir Force. Munguva yekuongorora kwehunyanzvi, iyo yakapera muna Chivabvu 27, 2009, Rafal haana kubatanidzwa kubva kune imwe nhanho yemakwikwi, asi mushure mekunyora mapepa uye kupindira kwezvematongerwo enyika, akadzorerwa. Muna Nyamavhuvhu 2009, bvunzo dzendege dzakatanga kwemwedzi yakati wandei kuBangalore, Karnataka, panzvimbo yegwenga yeJaisalmer muRajasthan uye pajinga regomo reLeh mudunhu reLadakh. Miedzo yeRafale yakatanga pakupera kwaSeptember.
