Christian D. Orr
The current iterations of the Tejas, the 2001 Mark 1 and Mark 1A, utilize G.E. Aerospace’s F404-GE-F2J3 afterburning turbofan engine.
India and Pakistan are fighting each other once again, as India is retaliating for terrorist attacks that killed more than two dozen people, including tourists, in the Indian part of Kashmir on April 22. Thus far, the conflict hasn’t escalated into a situation like the two nations’ full-scale wars of 1965 and 1971; instead, it seems to be limited in scope a la the 1999 Kargil War.
Pakistan claims to have shot down five Indian fighter jets already, but these claims have not been independently corroborated, and what’s more, the Pakistani government is mum on specifics of how it accomplished this alleged feat. Thus far, there have been no reports of any air-to-air combat between the two nations’ fighter jets. The last significant Indo-Pakistani jet vs. jet combat took place in the 1971 war; as The National Interest’s Michael Peck noted in a May 20, 2021, article,
“Both sides claimed victory in the air war. Chuck Yeager, who was in Pakistan advising their air force, claimed the Pakistanis ”whipped their asses.” The Indians claim Yeager was crazy. However, it does appear that India had the upper hand in the air, controlling the skies over East Pakistan and losing about forty-five aircraft to Pakistan’s seventy-five.”
If and when the Indian and Pakistani Air Forces’ jet jocks do clash with one another once more, there’s a distinctive possibility that they’ll be doing so using warbirds that at least partially incorporate U.S. technology.
Pakistan’s F-16: Wholly American-Made
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