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The day of manned aircraft may soon be over
2 hours ago Indian Air Force’s Rafale fighter jet lands during the first day of the Aero India 2021 Airshow at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bangalore. File/Agence France-Presse
Binay Kumar Singh,
Indo-Asian News Service
The Air Warfare Symposium, conducted by the US Air Force Association on February 27-28, may go down in history as an event where history was foretold. It was here, on the morning of February 28, 2020, that Elon Musk, the quintessential disruptor, set the cat among the pigeons. In a room overflowing with Air Force personnel, many fighter pilots among them, Musk famously predicted the end of the manned fighter aircraft. Much consternation followed, and copious amounts of newsprint was invested in the counter-narrative that flowed, mainly from the US Air Force and its veterans. Notably, much of the criticism of Musk’s proclamation was aimed at targeting him personally as a ‘head-line grabber�
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US Air Force (USAF) bombers are touching down in new places. In February, for the first time in history, the B-1B Lancer bomber landed in India. Then, in March, the supersonic jet deployed for the first time from a Norwegian air base. Just this week the variable-sweep bomber landed in Poland for the first time ever.
Expect more surprise landings from the B-1B, Boeing B-52H Stratofortress and Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, said USAF General Timothy Ray, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, at the Air Force Association’s Virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium in February.
India’s annual summit with Russia was cancelled last year for the first time since its inception – the official reason, as was commonly blamed for many abandoned events, Covid-19.
The summit’s cancellation was a rare hiccup in what has otherwise been a traditionally close partnership. Moscow has consistently proved itself to be a reliable partner to New Delhi in times of need, drawing comparisons to China’s “all-weather friend” relationship with Pakistan. Ever since a US arms boycott of the subcontinent during the 1965 Kashmir War, Russia (then the USSR) has been India’s go-to arms supplier. While the US backed Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh “Liberation War” – sending an aircraft carrier into the Bay of Bengal – Moscow supported India. When India conducted its second round of nuclear tests in the late 1990s, Russia – again unlike the US – did not publicly criticise New Delhi and actually aided its incipient nuclear program.
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