PHOTO: C-17 Snapped Over Delhi Recently When It Arrived For IAF Trials


Photo ©The Indian Express / By Oinam Anand

12 thoughts on “PHOTO: C-17 Snapped Over Delhi Recently When It Arrived For IAF Trials”

  1. What the heck. The title is so misleading. It's a snap of the aircraft. Not that the aircraft snapped. Why do you guys do this? It almost took my breath away.

  2. I STILL say we should have bought the AN-124 its cheaper carries hell more than the C-17 for the price of 10 C17 we could have got 20 AN-124

  3. About 2 or 3 years ago VAYU magazine had an interesting story about how some T72s were squeezed into an IL76 (or was that an AN32?)and airlifted to Leh. With this around – projected at 10 no.s – I suppose that wont be a problem. Only thing – how much Uncle sam will squeeze us.Already the C17 production at Long beach has been "stretched" – they are going slow on the current orders to keep everyone employed.

  4. Confirm,

    is not weather is very bad on that evening, i saw it over Moolchand flyover normal route for landing timing 6-6.15pm 7july

  5. APprox. $300 million perpiece + spares is quoted but then these figures are always "indicative" prices and not the "final" prices:)

  6. There has been a long and detailed discussion of this deal over at Bharat Rakshak. The feeling I get from reading the details(including a first-hand account by a Canadian C-17 pilot) is that the IAF is setting itself up for a disappointment and a waste of money.

    The IAF wants the C-17 for its advertised ability to operate from unprepared airfields like Leh. Unfortunately it does not have such an ability in practice; it is limited in payloads for such operations and, more importantly, causes damage to unprepared runways owing to inadequate landing gear reinforcement.

    Aside from that there's the matter of its astronomical cost; it costs four times as much as the Ukrainian An-124(which has double the lifting capacity) and some seven to eight times as much as the IL-76(which has 70 percent of its capacity) it will apparently replace. No value for money here. I wonder if bribes had a role in its unanimous selection.

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