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4 squadrons of the Rafale are guaranteed, 6 perhaps if Relaince and Mahindra prevail upon the government for assembling the Rafales from completely/semi knocked down kits. Ramping of the production of the LCA to the levels that the RM wants is not possible.

Sure you can. Honbl. RM, try not shoot from your hip. Ramping up the production rate in order to equip 6 squadrons in 4-5 years is not doable. Unless of course the last 2 years of this (4-5) year time frame will see HAL building nearly 30 fighters per fiscal. Best of luck with that, unless you...

I am a paid subscriber at Janes, you should read their complete spread on it, and then see the source they have referenced, they picked the data right of our own news articles. The reason I am being particular about this is because I am aware of the particulars of the tender and I happen to know...

I see. Kindly provide the tender documents here. See for yourself what the IN has specified, that will clear things for you. In terms of defense allocation, yes we are nearly broke. While the navy is fortunate enough in squeezing at least 45 paisa per rupee on capex its committed liabilities...

The RAN-40L is supplied by Finmeccancia, which despite the revised stand of the MoD stands in the dock. Depends upon the purpose of the ship. Not particularly if theater/area defence and naval ABM are the role the platform is meant for.

I told you, this is media bungling up the figures. There is only one country which operates ships of that size for this specific purpose (marine). How odd then that the article mentions a prospective design weighing in at 35-40,000 tons but lists shipbuilders (DCNS of France, Germany’s...

@PARIKRAMA Here is the tender specifying 64 cells for SAMs. http://www.mazagondock.gov.in/newsite2010/pdfs/ots_jully14/Tender%20Doc%206000000437.pdf

If the weapons fitment of the ship has not been finalized yet then look ahead for a string of delays as multiple changes will be required at a later date, often alterations like these will require un-doing work already finished.

http://www.mazagondock.gov.in/newsite2010/pdfs/sb_pmt_aug13/Tender_no_1600000114.pdf Refer to page-10. 48 VLS launch cells for SAMs, either all meant for the LR-SAM or 16 of them have been set aside for QR-SAMs. There is another (issued after the above, had posted the link in P-15B thread)...

I never said that the IN is "not interested" in the Rafale; I stated that it would not be feasible for the IN to operate the Rafale-M in light of the fact that they already have 2 fixed wing combatants (with the the N-LCA yet to be inducted) in their carrier air-wing. So, as I said, the IN will...

You don't seem to be getting the point. The Indian Navy has no interest in operating a menagerie of fighters, the IAF itself has had a hard enough time operating fighters from varied OEMs and IN is definitely in no position to court such an MRO nightmare. We will not be operating any fixed wing...

The decision to opt for steam driven catapults or EMALS has not been taken yet, so the Indian Navy could end up with either and both of the systems would be a big step up for the Indian Navy. We are not going to be operating 40,000 ton "helicopter carriers"; it is only garbled up information...

The US has no need to "bundle" the sales of the EMALS with the F-35, as such they will end up selling the E-2D to us anyway if we opt for either the EMALS of steam powered catapults.

There will be no orders for the Su-34 or the 35. The IAF has simply no interest in either and the reported offers are just that, insubstantial offers made by OEMs or having been reported to be made by the media. Neither of the aircraft fit into the IAF's projected force structure. Furthermore...

Changed your old gmail id? I've got it remember? Got a job now so ya things are different.

The feeling is mutual ZY.:-) Life's kept me busy, we should keep in touch over the mail. How goes life on your side?

ZY! :-)

That should be obvious, hardly something worth quoting my post for. :p: We are referring to quality assurance issues with regard to the jets which were supposed to be built in country.

There will be no solution to the quality assurance issue. Dassault is simply going to refuse, they will rightly argue that they cannot assure or ensure that all QC/QR will be met through the life of the production line. They would have to literally check the components going on every single jet...

Those industrial benefits will only come when the contentious points in the original contract are ironed out. 60 or 200, whatever be the number of planes we supposedly will build in country, it will only happen once issues relating to price and quality assurance are fixed, and that does not seem...