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Recap: BAE’s US arm to shift Howitzer assembly here | Page 4 As I said, nothing new, nothing big and nothing unexpected.

Range has no importance in being a strike platform, since not all strike missions are deep strikes. The priority for light class multi role fighters such as Tejas are short to medium range / endurance A2A and A2G missions. The latter is why, IAF already is integrating A2G weapons for CAS on it...

It will, since the MMR is mainly based on the EL 2032, because the DRDO radar development could not deliver a useful system. Now the "hybrid" is mainly an EL2032, Indian subsystems and most likely the same will be used for the Jaguar upgrade, most likely with a smaller diameter though.

METEOR would be ordered only for Rafales after the first 36 at this point, as they would be diverted from the French government order and would be F3+ standard. The Mirage weapon pack does not include METEOR, only MICA, since the fuselage stations can't carry long missiles like METEOR, which...

Not necessarily the same one, once because we still aim on the F3+ not the F3R as Qatar, but also because IAF wanted customizations, while Qatar just took what the French had integrated or are developing anyway. At least the first 36 are not likely to come with METEOR, the fact that we haven't...

Where is the news? We know about this since the last negotiations on the M777, where BAE stated to divert parts of the assembly and production to India, but we know that the gun, which is the most important part, will remain to be produced abroad. So this is just the expected procedure, to...

The one evaluated against 2m² targets and with the nose material issue, the other on 5m² targets, which makes them comparable again, if you choose the same target size. Rafael gives the EL 2032 with up to 136Km against a 5m² target and we know that the LCA has a pretty large nose diameter for...

That's just depends on the case,Brahmos is roughly 50:50, which gives us control over the overall JV but Russia is still only responsible for the minor part they divert. In FGFA on the other side, it's also roughly 50:50, while they have the far larger contribution. In a joint AWACS development...

Just another poor Indian media report, based on hearsay, false conclusions and speculations. DM Parrikar stated several times, that the MMRCA tender would cost around $18 billions, which translates into a unit cost of around $142 million each Rafale! The author has took the cost for Qatar as...

Well if we would focus on that keyword for sure, sadly we aren't and DRDO is already dreaming of bigger things, instead of pushing what they have. Brazil won't buy it, since they already have the same platform with Saab's Erieye radar system, not to mention that Saab an Embraer are already...

That sums it up pretty good and shows why there are resons for disappointment. India had a great chance, having a government with such a majority that is not bound to coalition compromises and that in a time that basically screams for bold reforms to push India ahead. That and the hope that...

We are: Employment in India grew by 34% in last 8 years; women's participation rose to 25% of the workforce | Page 3 But, has not implement these steps to gain effect in the last year, but will show it only this or in the following years. That's exactly why one has to understand the context...

Man, you forced me to thank Desert Fighter. :what: But he is right, there is no need to dig up old issues and restart discussions, or blame games again, unless there is a new development on the topic.

Yes, they can ramp up the production up to 30 fighters a year, but that's only possible if additional orders requires more fighters being produced. French orders being diverted to export customers, doesn't require that, since it don't add numbers, until the French government orders new once to...

There is no naval Maitri SAM, but the same missile in a version for IA and IN, just as Barak 8 will have land and sea based applications. The link btw doesn't talk about a development, just about the tender for the Fabrication of QRSAM igniter canister assembly.

So far there are not much more orders of fighters, since most of them are diverted from the F3+ order of the French government. Only the 24 for Qatar and a few for Egypt will be F3Rs and even here it needs to be seen if Egypt gets French initial orders too. The most logical point to increase the...

1) He took over when things were recovering, which is the ideal situation to come in, since you neither have to take difficult decisions to cut spending or raise taxes, but benefit from the improvements. So he could either sit back and take, what's coming anyway or be bold and push India way...

Interesting, but without the necessary background out of context, which of course makes it difficult to see what really was done by the new government and what came out of their doing. Take the energy production for an example, which has nothing to do with the NDA, nor is it even a problem...

Why criticism over the Qatar deal? It's the first one that Dassault actually did on it's own and as it seems, adds orders instead of diverting them from French orders. So that's good isn't it? I only was interested to see the low number of the order, since the speculations were about 36 up to...

As @Hindustani78 said, it's a JV to divert production parts to India, since our procurement laws demands 30% of the value of the deal, to be diverted back to India. The JV part is nothing new though, only that the new government wants offsets to be from the purchased product and not of other...