As the last F-4 phantom II departed from the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) for drone conversion USAF, work starts with the conversion of the fourth generation aerial targets, the F-16 Fighting Falcon provides a more realistic training environ for aerial combat.
The Indian Air force, the fourth largest in the world, endeavor is to improve its training standards, all the more being compelled to impart training on an ageing fleet, its time the IAF project requirement on similar lines of the USAF, most of its fleet of MiG-21-23 & 25 fighters number plated are stripped and displayed as models in units all over the country, can be used after regeneration.
MIG-23BN Fighter Bomber
Drones involve complex technology, and will have to be taken up by DRDO & HAL combine to evolve a drone modification package on aircraft that are already airworthy, a beginning can be made, not to belittle the massive work involved.
MiG-25R/U Strategic Reconnaissance
Project implementation can have multi-faceted usage in addition to its primary task of providing a realistic training environment, its certain to improve flight safety records of the IAF as it would replace manned combat training roles. BRAVO!
