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The Israeli Air Force has, to the best of my kowledge, three combat aircraft programs in place: # Refitting and maintaining as combat ready a semi-mothballed fleet of aging A4 Skyhawks, Kfirs, and modified, modernized, heavily enhanced F4F Phantoms (Phantom 2000), expected to last until 2009. # The completion of new orders for F-15I Strike Eagles (modernized, modified versions of the Boeing F-15E, the I designating Israeli modification package) ), and F16I, the Lockheed fighter bomber (Fighting Falcon or Sufa -- or, colloquially, The Lawn Dart), again with special Israel specified modifications package. Note that production is winding down on both these planes. # And finally, shipments of unspecified numbers of F-22 Raptors and FA-35 Joint Strike Fighters (Isreal is an official observer of this program), to be delivered soon. Various helicopter (attack and SAR) programs are under way as are ELINT and recon programs (I'd list the details but the ones available to me seem suspect -- not unusual in that intel-gather craft are typically highly classified). === === The mianstream Indian Airforce is using the Sukhoi Su-30MKI as its primary air superiority fighter, backstopped by the Su-30K and MiG-29 (NATO: Fulcrum). The Mirage 2000H is the primary ground support aircraft (with a good air superiority capability). Recently, India deployed the Radiance -- a light air combat craft, synthetic stabily and fly-by-wire, but this craft's 17-year-long development cycle created a need for retooling and changes in manufacturing technology to field this platform. Arguably, this may be the most recent platform. The Indian Air Force also reportedly maintains an aging fleet of MiG-27 (NATO: Flogger), and Sepecat Jaguars for ground support, as well as MiG-21's (NATO: Fishbed) as a multi-role aircraft (similar in tasking to the US F-4 Phantom), but these planes are getting old and their deployment seems unliklely. Note that sources reporting Indian Air Force are less thorough in that the Indian Air Force security protocols are less open about their order of battle.

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