How do the following two match up!!!? Has the Hon'ble Supreme Court been misled???
l. <<02:30 pm: Deputy Chief of Air staff, Air Marshal V R Chaudhari and two other officers from Indian Air Force told Supreme Court that Sukhoi 30s was the latest to be inducted which is a 3.5 generation aircraft and added that they do not have 4th or 5th generation aircraft. The court then said that "it means ***there has been no induction of aircrafts since 1985*** [emphasis added]". "India needed 4 plus generation fighters that is why the Rafale jet was selected," they added.>> (Ref.: < http://www.asianage.com/india/all-india/141118/sc-begins-rafale-hearing-govt-report-reveals-serious-fraud-says-petitioner.html >.) ll. A. <<The Sukhoi Su-30MKI[a] (NATO reporting name: Flanker-H) is a twinjet multirole air superiority fighter developed by Russia's Sukhoi and built under licence by India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force (IAF). A variant of the Sukhoi Su-30, it is a heavy, all-weather, long-range fighter. Development of the variant started after India signed a deal with Russia in 2000 to manufacture 140 Su-30 fighter jets.[3] ***The first Russian-made Su-30MKI variant was accepted into the Indian Air Force in 2002,[4] while the first indigenously assembled Su-30MKI entered service with the IAF in 2004.[5] The IAF had 240 Su-30MKIs in service as of October 2017.[6] The Su-30MKI is expected to form the backbone of the Indian Air Force's fighter fleet to 2020 and beyond.[7]*** [Emphasis added.] (Ref.: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-30MKI>.) II. B. <<***What India is doing right now is to have a very potent and lethal base of fourth generation fighters. In the future Su-30mki (270), Hal Tejas(100+) will form this base.*** [Emphasis added.] The Rafale(36) will replace the Mirage 2000 for some specialized roles. Then we will have the fifth generation lineup in the form of HAL/SUKHOI FGFA(200) and HAL AMCA and other aircrafts for ground attack role. This new mix will give IAF the much required core strength which is missing as of now. We have around 250 Mig-21 as our base in service, which are seriously outdated by modern standards.>> (Ref.: < https://www.quora.com/Why-is-India-buying-fourth-generation-fighter-planes-whilst-fifth-generation-ones-exist >.) ***So, while the Supreme Court has inferred on the basis of the depositions of the IAF officers, specially made available for the occasion, that "there has been no induction of aircrafts (in the IAF fleet) since 1985" (ref. I. above); other sources indicate that the Su-30MKI is being inducted since 2002 and by October 2017 there were 240 such aircrafts (ref. II. A. above) and these are 4th generation fighter planes (ref. II. B. above).*** So, how's that??? Sukla -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
