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Air Chief Marshal Chaudhari explains the IAF’s battle tactics
By DUB ,
Business Standard, 14 April 2022
The Indian Air Force (IAF) boss, Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari pointed out on Tuesday that the IAF currently operates 39 different aircrafts with origins in six different countries.
This makes inventory management a big challenge, said Chaudhari.
However, the IAF chief glossed over the fact that a current air force tender for 114 fighter aircraft made it likely that the IAF might soon have a seventh fighter type on its inventory.
An IAF tender for 114 “multi-role combat aircraft” (MRCA) is likely to obtain responses from eight fighters: Boeing (F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and F-15EX), Sukhoi (Sukhoi-35), RAC MiG (MiG-35), Eurofighter (Typhoon), Lockheed Martin (F-21), Saab (Gripen E) and Dassault (Rafale).
Of these, only the Rafale is already on the IAF’s inventory of six fighter types: the Sukhoi-30MKI, Dassault-Rafale, MiG-29UPG, Jaguar, Mirage 2000 and Tejas Mark 1. This does not count the MiG-21, which is on its way out.
The IAF chief said that focus was earlier on hardware (combat aircraft), but has now shifted to software, data and artificial intelligence (AI). The key to winning future wars, said Chaudhari, is to make our own networks secure and resilient while interfering with enemy networks.
Delivering a talk on the future of air warfare at a conclave of the All India Management Association (AIMA) in Delhi on Tuesday, Chaudhari said a nation’s entire economic, information and technological capability had to be brought to bear on the adversary.
“Even before the first bullet is fired, a well-crafted narrative can have a devastating effect on the adversary, and a cyber-attack can cripple their command and control structure,” he said.
Illustrating that US tactical combat theory and practice was finding its way into Indian military thinking, Chaudhri stated that the IAF was trying to shorten its “OODA loop”, to keep the enemy on its back foot.
