IAF's future

[vrus]

Hello everybody
What do you think the Indian Air Force will be like after 10-25 years ?
What planes ? How many ? How advanced ? What rank in the world ? What about the planes being used ? Allies ?

[highsea]

That's a pretty broad question. There is a thread on IAF on 2015 here:

http://defencetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3294

[Akshay]

I see very bright future for Indian Air Force.Combination of Russian,Western and indigenous aircrafts will make IAF potent force to achieve national security.
Russian sukhois will form backbone of IAF.Su-30MKI ,Pak-fa will give us edge over adversaries over several years and will serve as front-line fighter.
Mirages,Mig-29s,LCAs,MCAs will be complementary to sukhois and can take any kind of mission.
Transport fleet will be comprised of MTAs and other new aircrafts (like C-130 Herculis) apart from existing Il-76s.
Apart from ALH,LCH,LAH newer versions will be added (like Ka-50/52, I hope) to our inventory.UAVs,UCAVs will be developed.
Such multidimentional capabilities will make IAF strong enough to face any challenges in future.:) It will be among few leading air forces like USA,France,UK,Israel.

[vrus]

But what about stealth planes? Will the MCA take this role or will we not have one?

[indianguy4u]

hi guys ,

what do u think about our plans to buy 126 AC . Shouldn't we wait for LCAs ?

[aaaditya]

it will take another atleast for india to produce that many lca's by then india will be requiring 400 combat aircrafts.