Dassault Aviation Offer Rafale to India

[Suffa]

French arms industry company Dassault Aviation is planning to bid for a contract to supply 126 new fighter aircraft to India.

Dassault Aviation said in a statement late on Feb. 27 that its bid would center on the fourth-generation Rafale fighter, for which it has yet to find an export market.

India aims to replace its ageing fleet of MiG-21 fighters, and the world’s arms giants are limbering up for the battle which could land them a deal worth an estimated $9 billion (7.6 billion euros).

Dassault Aviation noted it had supplied combat aircraft to India for more than 50 years, mostly recently the Mirage 2000, which is now out of production.

”However, we have the firm belief the Rafale new generation Omnirole fighter answers to the operational needs of the Indian Air Force,” said Charles Edelstenne, chief executive of Dassault Aviation
The European defense and aircraft group EADS has already announced that it will bid for the contract, proposing its Eurofighter.

U.S. giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin are also in the running, with their F-18 and F-16 aircraft respectively, alongside Russia’s MiG-29 and the Gripen, made by Sweden’s Saab.

Refale to India

 

[Bull]

Originally posted by Suffa@Mar 1 2006, 11:27 AM
French arms industry company Dassault Aviation is planning to bid for a contract to supply 126 new fighter aircraft to India.

Dassault Aviation said in a statement late on Feb. 27 that its bid would center on the fourth-generation Rafale fighter, for which it has yet to find an export market.

India aims to replace its ageing fleet of MiG-21 fighters, and the world’s arms giants are limbering up for the battle which could land them a deal worth an estimated $9 billion (7.6 billion euros).

Dassault Aviation noted it had supplied combat aircraft to India for more than 50 years, mostly recently the Mirage 2000, which is now out of production.

”However, we have the firm belief the Rafale new generation Omnirole fighter answers to the operational needs of the Indian Air Force,” said Charles Edelstenne, chief executive of Dassault Aviation
The European defense and aircraft group EADS has already announced that it will bid for the contract, proposing its Eurofighter.

U.S. giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin are also in the running, with their F-18 and F-16 aircraft respectively, alongside Russia’s MiG-29 and the Gripen, made by Sweden’s Saab.

Refale to India

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the advantage for them is that there is already a existing production line in HAL,banglore for mirages which needs only slight modifications to enable local production of rafaels.

F 18 looks to be a good bet as the additonal 70 are meant for In and remaining 126 are only for the IAF,which looks like Mig variant.

 

[melb4aust]

What Are they crazy :stupid:

dono whats happening. On 1 hand they cancelled the deal to supply Mirages and on the other hand they are offering Rafale. Im gonna get mad :wall:

 

[Zeeshan S.]

Suffa get your self straight dude, and act like your something, dont just go on and write stuff down. Use internet sources and take sometime to write stuff down. (hint use internet sources and provide them for supporting your ideas if you have to&#33

First of all the aircrafts name is Rafale and not Rafael. Rafael is an isreali company which is into aviation industry and has produced weapons like Derby BVR missiles, it has been said that Rafael was the first company who was able to make BVR missiles, and then later this technology was spreaded around, and due to little modifications, some of the countries were able to change the design and weight to make it more effective, and then renaming its own, but the central idea is the same.

Regarding the topic of the Rafale aircraft being offered to India, is a disturbing news for Pakistan. Even if Pakistan able to get 40~ Rafale aircrafts it wouldn't be able to deal with the numbers that IAF will acquire as always, but minimum detterence will of course be there.

What i believe is IAF is trying to wait and make PAF wait in acquiring another fighter while it is about to be producing Su-30K fighters in its homeland, and my good guess is after the production line is setup, and the number of Su-30K/MKI aircrafts are produced then IAF will go ahead with this MRCAs deal, which would give IAF a further advatage, and this advantage could be more damaging if IAF go ahead and purchases Rafale (But i believe it wont, unless Rafale become a multirole aircraft which IAF is aiming for).

 

[Khan]

I think they should buy anything except Grippens. That would make it a bit easier for us to procure those beauties.

 

[Thunder]

I doubt IAF will buy rafale as their 126 MRCA. They'll be too expensive. May be 50 or 80 but that's about it. The rest might be euros or a ruissisan fighter. But something tells me that IAF might buy about 30-40 USA fighters to keep USA in check too.