The writer is a former Chief of Air Staff
History headline: Mirage-2000 to Rafale, the story in between
It is time we get over our hang-ups and get more professional in what we do. The noise of politicising over every military acquisition is now deafening.
IN NOVEMBER 1980, a few of us were assembled under the leadership of then Air Commodore Prithi Singh, an experienced test pilot, and given some papers to study. These were about the Mirage-2000. We were to evaluate the aircraft in France as a possible counter to Pakistan’s F-16. At the time, we did not have any aircraft that could directly take on an F-16 in air. Soviets were far more secretive and offered the MIG-23MF which was no match against the highly manoeuvrable F-16. The MIG-29 was still unknown at the time.
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