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@RAeSTimR Will be eliminated by ssns

How a forward deployment of Chinese AAW destroyers could sever the artery of US air to air refuelling operations in the Pacific #avgeek ow.ly/3x5F50Z05gY

@alpha_defense These are new su 30 kits received from russia last mon

When fighter jets enter MRO, paint is often stripped off to inspect structural deformation, fatigue points and microscopic surface cracks hidden beneath coatings. This is why you sometimes see aircraft flying or parked with peeled surfaces. Aerospace-grade epoxy fillers and repair compounds from companies like PPG Industries, Henkel and 3M are commonly used for aerodynamic surface restoration, these aren’t new frames.

@JaidevJamwal Pathankot

Nice missile launcher and other stuff somewhere in the north. Seems like stuff done for some PR thing.

@GauravT71548031 @Gaurab Russian al 41s are far ahead of china and comparable to western counterparts

Interesting. Similar to how Russian engine tech was when compared to Western Engines. Western precision manufacturing still keeps them ahead. Better fatigue life and lower rejection rates. But, given how Chinese manufacturing in general has caught up, a matter of time before they close the gap.

Over 300 Chinese J-20 stealth fighters have been built at roughly $110 million each. Not one carries a turbine blade that matches the service life of its Western equivalent. The WS-15 reached serial production on the J-20A in December 2025. Its high-pressure turbine runs on a third-generation Chinese single-crystal superalloy, rated about 30 degrees Celsius hotter than the second generation. The chemistry works. Casting yield at production scale does not. Chinese foundries scrap two of every three blades they cast. Western foundries scrap one in twenty. Chinese military engines improved from a few hundred hours between overhauls to roughly 1,500 with better blades. Western equivalents run roughly twice as long between overhauls and several times longer in total service life. Western foundries target sulfur below 1 part per million. Best practice runs below 0.3. At that purity, the coating survives thousands of hours in gas streams hotter than the alloy's melting point. A few extra parts per million and the coating peels, the blade oxidizes, and the engine fails prematurely.

@MC_IAF @IAF_MCC @PRODefNgp Are those new Su 30 airframes in background?

Base Repair Depot Nashik of IAF achieved a major #Atmanirbharta milestone by successfully carrying out the indigenous overhaul of the Indian Navy’s MiG-29K ejection seat, earlier being carried out in Russia. 1/2

@user1828i @HammadWaleed7 You dont have any interception capability of brahmos and we can destroy any pakistani air and sea asset on ground like we destroyed your saab awacs and hit your f16 mro hanger

@Felix58213 @HammadWaleed7 It takes at least 24 months to make a rafale jet while holes on runway can be repaired within days...Iran was hitting daily on US/isrehell bases nothing special in that but for j££ts it's a accomplishment firing a standoff weapons 100s of km inside from their own airspace

Nur Khan ( 10th May,2025) IAF wanted to take out HQ-9 stationed there via PGMs- most were intercepted. The two reaching the base did not hit any AD or radar. A non-op building was hit ( which the Indian sources correlate via sat imagery). Not a single asset of HQ 9 was hit.

@HecterOSINT @IAF_MCC Sound of scalp eg launched from rafale is very clear in the videos

Op Sindoor⚡️ During the early hours on 10/05/2025, the @IAF_MCC struck a high value target at PAF Base Nur Khan, Chaklala, Pakistan. The target - C2 (Command & Control) Centre, holding strategic value as all the PAF operations were being controlled from here only! Target Loc: PAF Base Nur Khan✅ Closest Indian Territory: Balnoi Bulge✅ Distance b/w the above two locs: 90KM Approx.✅ Spice-2000 PGM range: 60KM✅ Imagery: Google Earth & Max✅ Attached is the infographics showing the post strike assessment of the target. 'Deep & Precise' 🇮🇳🇮🇳 CC: Open Source.

@amp1066_ani Main concern was how engines shut down?

Well well well well well !!!!! here's a new twist on the AI 171 incident Can aviation experts shed some light on this? #AI171

@thecaravanindia Only 1 rafale crashed (bs001) due to non combat reasons

Archives | The Pakistan prime minister claimed that the PAF had destroyed three Rafale jets during Operation Sindoor. Modi had touted the purchase of these jets as a gamechanger, lamenting his inability to use them in 2019 due to delays in procurement. Meant to be a demonstration of Modi's resolve and the military's technological prowess, the operation and its aftermath complicated India's security environment. Operation Sindoor and the delusion of deterrence. Read @SushantSin's essay: caravanmagazine.in/conflict/opera… #rafale #OperationSindoor

@Indian_Analyzer Nepal also has lowest average iq in the world (45)

Indian liberals fantasizing about a "people’s revolution" here while hyping Balen Shah Nepal's Home Minister Sudan Gurung declares: 19 ropani (~1 lakh sq ft) Dhankuta (self), 221 ropani (~12 lakh sq ft / ~28 acres) Gorkha (grandfather), 30 kattha (~1 acre) Chitwan (father), 89 tola gold (~₹1.7 CR, “ancestral”), shares + stocks ~₹2 CR+, bank ~₹38L. Nepal per capita? ~₹1.2L/year. Same elites. Same wealth concentration. But Nepal has seen a CHANGE saar.... They're PROGRESSIVE saar

@Flanker30MKI Better than bogus r73

@Kunal_Biswas707 Era of single role jets is over

Rare Snap of IAF's MIG-27 with Kh-29T heavy duty ground attack munition, it had great firepower but it's engine was a "Achilles' heel" the reason for it's early retirement and many of the accidents and a combat loss, it could have surpass Jaguars if it got those AL-31FN. 🇮🇳

@therealp0litik Good enough for slinging rampages and kh 29s

Mig-29K is just a bad platform for this job. No Aesa radar, no long range BVR, out dated helicopter based jugaad AEW.

@Bij_uji Retard dawood was in india till 1992

Jameel Jamali Poisoned Dawood in around 1970 - 1980 (He was sent 45 Years ago from the Film's ending year 2023, I.e 1968, When RAW was Established) But Jameel Jamali, Khannai and others was shown with same look Throughout 😂😂😂, I guess Aditya Dhar Orgasmed so hard for one political party that he forgot The basic of Human ageing 😂

@Vinamralongani @jetairways Are these airworthy?

As per the regulatory filing below, Ace Aviation has emerged as the highest bidder for 2 x @jetairways B777-300ER (VT-JET and VT-JEU). Ace Aviation recently concluded an agreement to purchase the remaining 3 x Jet Airways B777-300ER (VT-JES, VT-JEM and VT-JEV). #AvGeek

@BabakTaghvaee1 The seeker locked onto metal oil tanks

BREAKING: Unbelievably, instead of protecting Bahrain from one-way attack drones of the IRGC, the U.S. Army mistakenly struck Bapco Energies’ oil refinery near Manama with a MIM-104F surface-to-air missile launched from a Patriot PAC-3 system while attempting to intercept an incoming drone. The missile hit an oil storage tank, causing a major fire at the facility. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

@Goreunit Us has unlimited resources and massive mic, airframes are meaningless for them

Rescue of the pilots of crashed F15, USA lost 5 air assets 1.A10 2 & 3 Transport aircraft C130 4 & 5 Black Hawk heli(Damaged)

@EndShina @AuroraIntel Kuwait has no mountains

@AuroraIntel is this kuwait or iran lol

If you’re so sure of your evidence, provide the geo location and then it can be matched up

@Osinttechnical Definitely iran, from the mountains

Remains of the left elevator.

Iranian media has posted what appears to be debris from a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle, reportedly downed earlier today. Seen here, the remains of a vertical stabilizer.