Mirage 2000 and Sukhoi-30MKI Crash

#GS-03 Science and Technology

Black Box

Officially called the Flight Data Recorder, the Black Box is an instrument which records all the activities in an aeroplane during its flight.
An Australian scientist named David Warren was the first person to build an FDR/CVR prototype in 1958.
An aeroplane generally contains two black boxes which are kept at the front and backside of the aeroplane.
These record the information about a flight and help in reconstructing the events in case of an aircraft crash.
They do not have the ability to prevent an aircraft crash nor can they help to protect the passengers in the event of a crash.

Mirage 2000 is a multirole, single-engine, fourth-generation jet fighter designed and manufactured by the French company Dassault Aviation.
It was inducted in operational service by the French Air Force in 1984 and currently more than 500 Mirage 2000 operational in the world.
Mirage 2000s have been used by 8 countries namely France, Brazil, UAE, Egypt, Greece, India, Peru and Qatar.
They have a maximum take-off weight of 38,500 lbs or 17463 kgs, with a maximum speed of Mach 2.2.
Dassault Aviation is the manufacturers of Dassault Rafale.

Su-30MKI is an all-weather, long-range, twinjet multirole air superiority fighter developed by Russia’s JSC Sukhoi Company.
It has been built under licence by India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force (IAF).
Su-30MKI was accepted into the Indian Air Force in 2002, while the first India made Su-30MKI entered service with the IAF in 2004.
Su-30MKI is considered more advanced than the baseline Su-30 and features state of the art avionics developed by Russia, India and Israel for display, navigation, targeting and electronic warfare.
The IAF is the largest operator of the Su-30 variant with around 262-aircraft in service.

For more updates Click Here