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The Indian tender for the MMRCA didn't have a specific figure , any Rafale order for 126 aircrafts would probably have been in the region of $25 billion which was why it was cancelled. The orders are now being divided into single engined & twin engined. This is official communication from GoI...

Would depend on the price to a large extent though it is probably more likely because the Swedes seem to have impressed many here.

Not really, this contract was agreed to under 2 years ago & the money will be made available. Negotiations on money matters take time, a single engined aircraft order will have to be made in India. Not like you need $10 billion straight away, that's the price of the whole deal when completed...

That tender was cancelled, as it stands the French have an order & India wants another single engined aircraft.

The Russian deal will cost a lot more and won't be here for a little while longer but about $10 billion on another single engined fighter is a reasonable figure.

Not really. The request mentioned in the article is for a single engined fighter.

The Americans haven't offered the F 35, this question is speculative to the extreme. As of now, it will either be the Gripen or the latest model F16.

It's being mentioned by the author for a very specific reason, to somehow equate local "badla" by commanders acting on their own without political cover with the recent extensive strikes which were planned & executed with people at the top authorising it. If the author wanted to go back, he...

India is, if you take the statement of the Indian Home Minister. Nothing on the subject mentioned from Pakistan

Interesting days again Cyril Almeida THE message has been delivered; it has been received coolly; so we’re left with two questions: why now and what next? Let’s get down to it. Nawaz and the N-League are wrong on militancy. They’ve been wrong since they got back Punjab in 2008 and they’ve...

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The only thing that will happen is the French working us over once more. Let's be brutally honest, the only reason we have a Rafale deal was that the previous government had already declared it the MMRCA winner & this government couldn't get out of it without some serious diplomatic damage to...

Unless the price difference between the Gripen & the F-16's on offer is enormous, I see no real reason to select the F 16. The F-18's may be another matter but that's a different acquisition. It's taken us about a decade & a half but we seem to have finally got the idea that you simply can't...

Very good point. The contrarian view would be that the swedes being aware of this very important factor might be more open than anyone else to share technology. Not for nothing are they still in the mix.

Can't disagree.

Your idea of what the resolution would look like is very different from our own. Those hundreds of thousands of para military forces already exist & will exist even if the problem of Kashmir is resolved. Maybe if Pakistan decided to be realistic & work with India to improve lives of the people...

Nothing you could have done either in Junagadh or Hyderabad, though your great leaders even spurned an offer to swap Hyderabad for Kashmir. In the end, they got neither.

We needed a few hundred of these guns , MoD has been terrible on the artillery front.

There is no meeting ground between Pakistani & Indian positions on Kashmir. Nor does it look like there will be. End of story.

Mon, 17 Nov 2008........frustrated much? :lol: