Aero India 2025 - Flypast

[EvD]

For the Rafale and Su-30s, this may be of use:
https://etstatic.tnn.in/photo/msid-1181 ... uality=100
Looks like SB436 and SB029 for the Sukhois?
Both this formation and the bomb burst are not sharp/close enough on our own photos alas.

[K2G]

For the Rafale and Su-30s, this may be of use:
https://etstatic.tnn.in/photo/msid-1181 ... uality=100
Looks like SB436 and SB029 for the Sukhois?
Both this formation and the bomb burst are not sharp/close enough on our own photos alas.

You are sure this picture is from Monday?
It looks like the rehearsal in better condition(s (blue sunny sky) a few days earlier !

[Ian French]

Thanks. Saw Hans photo which reminded me why I didn’t have any. They were through the trees and we never had a clear shot. My auto focus freaked out.
Ideally some of us should have been at the other end of the base.

[Ian French]

I’m referring to the second Tejas group

[EvD]

For the Rafale and Su-30s, this may be of use:
https://etstatic.tnn.in/photo/msid-1181 ... uality=100
Looks like SB436 and SB029 for the Sukhois?
Both this formation and the bomb burst are not sharp/close enough on our own photos alas.

Good point about this being during a rehearsal, that could well be the case my shot is much murkier (can only make out a 4 on one of them.
It seems to be a screencap from a video aired by this news agency.

[HansW]

The first group was 3, we saw it from the eastern threshold, they appeared to fly south of the airfield.
The second group was 4, but one of them broke off/banked away at the eastern threshold before crossing the airfield! The leader of this group was a dual.

That makes sense !
The one that broke off is LA-5034 (confirmed from my photo) and that one came in for landing right after the flypast.
However, the dual in the 2nd group did not land in the morning, but we had one dual landing around 12:48 (LT-5202), immediately followed by LA-5028 and LA-5023.
So it seems the 2nd flight of 4 was 5034/5202/5028/5023, of which 5034 came in right after the fly-past. The other three must have landed somewhere else and returned around 12:48

Rgds, Hans

[EvD]

Further to the Rafale/Su-30 group, the original photo was posted in the Day 1 topic by the MinDef on 10feb:
https://x.com/SpokespersonMoD/status/18 ... 94178?mx=2

Although they could have used the better shots from rehearsal of course...

[HansW]

One of the guys from our (initial) group was already inside the show on monday-morning, so having a different angle on the flypast.

"Wave 10" Rafale S-30MK x 2: BS026, SB436, SB029
"Wave 11" Su-30MKI x3: only SB430 could be read from photo's

credits go to "Mr Taiwan"

[HansW]

For the Rafale and Su-30s, this may be of use:
https://etstatic.tnn.in/photo/msid-1181 ... uality=100
Looks like SB436 and SB029 for the Sukhois?
Both this formation and the bomb burst are not sharp/close enough on our own photos alas.

You are sure this picture is from Monday?
It looks like the rehearsal in better condition(s (blue sunny sky) a few days earlier !

SB436 and SB029 are now confirmed from photo's made on Monday. So the photo on the website "could" be from Monday indeed, but it could also very well be possible that these two als performed during the rehearsal of course

[HansW]

after checking again with people who took photo's from "the inside" on Monday - thus having a different angle on the fly past- the following is now confirmed:

Wave 2: 3x Tejas LA5018/LA5023/LA5028
Wave 7: 3x +1x Tejas LA5033/5037/LT5208 and nr. 4 being LA5034 (which broke out of the formation and stayed a bit behind)

Wave 11: Rafale BS026 and SU-30's SB029 and SB436

The final wave of 3 SU-30's: SB309/SB430/SB.4.

Rgds.

[Ian French]

And the final missing serial is SB124