India's Air Force to buy last remaining US-built C-17

Beast said:

Sourgraped. If stretch version IL-76Ms is so good. Why China didn't buy that. Tell you the truth. The cargo batch of Y-20 is so big that leopard 2 tank can directly drive into it which is something even stretched IL-72Ms can't do.

Y-20 is far superior than IL-76Ms stretched version.


What can the desperate Indians do? They don't know how to make a large transport plane. And only C-17 can offer what Indians one. If American daylight robbery and ask for USD1 billion. IAF has the need, they still need to paid. :enjoy;

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cirr said:

OVER Rs 2,500 crore? That's more than 2.5 billion RMB.

For a lousy C-17? Bloody hell!

China can make 6 Y-20s for that amount of money.

Does India really know what it is doing?

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foxtrot1 said:

The UAC Il-214 Multi-role Transport Aircraft (MTA) is a medium-airlift military transmort aircraft which is being developed by the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) of Russia, and Hindustan Aeronautics limited (HAL) of India. The two companies began the joint venture in 2009, when it was expected that each would be investing US$300 million in the project

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MKC said:

₹2500 crore = ₹25000 million = $367 million......
Sorry, if I couldn't get your point.

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cirr said:

OVER Rs 2,500 crore? That's more than 2.5 billion RMB.

For a lousy C-17? Bloody hell!

China can make 6 Y-20s for that amount of money.

Does India really know what it is doing?

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cirr said:

The point is that China's Y-20 is just under 450 miliion RMB(=65 million US dollars) apiece.

Yes, China might export the plane for a higher price, as it usually does, but certainly not at 6 times the PLA price.

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Asgard said:

IL-76M is superior than tin can Y-20 in almost every aspect.
Most of Y-20 components and subsystems are imported from Russia and few from Europe top.

China desperately wanted IL-76M licence production but Russia refused so it has to be happy with crap quality Y-20.

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Han Patriot said:

Actually the Russians are buying military electronics from China, I can bet there are some Chini electronics in your MKIs.

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Lord Of Gondor said:

There is ban on import of defence equipment from China, IIRC.
And no, the MKI has zero Chinese equipment on board.
VayuSena C-17 Globemaster III :
Induction

The modern cockpit

HADR Missions
Evacuation from Yemen

Cyclone Phailin

Op Maitri Nepal

Fiji

Sri Lanka

The aircraft has proved it's worth.

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cirr said:

The point is that China's Y-20 is just under 450 miliion RMB(=65 million US dollars) apiece.

Yes, China might export the plane for a higher price, as it usually does, but certainly not at 6 times the PLA price.

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Water Car Engineer said:

No body cares what China is doing. Unless India is going to buy some planes from China, this is irrelevent. You talk about bragging, but you brag the most.

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