mosts of the member say that MRCA only real valid reason is TOT however i disagree..india could easily have gotten much technology as sub systems for their LCA and or AMCA the future jet instead of wasting over 20 billion dollars in MRCA...
First of all, LCA isn't available, otherwise we wouldn't need a new fighter.
Secondly, it's not only ToT but also the offsets that gives Indian companies the chance to make JV, co-development or at least take over parts of the production of the foreign vendors, which improves them by far. The competition alone made US and several Europeans to form JV with Indian counterparts and we wouldn't have got this chance without this procurement.
Also it's simply wrong that you can get the same ToT by just procureing parts and the best example is the Gripen E/F, which gets Swashplate AESA, IRST and even some parts of the EWS from EF consortium companies, that are even based on EFs systems and still it was provenly technically less capable than the EF. Why? because you sell downgraded parts to normal export customers, same reason why the US offered F16IN with the AN/APG-80 AESA radar, but customers that just want to upgrade their F16s or other fighters with US AESA gets only the Raytheon RACR AESA, which is meant to be an export AESA.
How is Rafale a better product to the EF? when EF has better performance and lower RCS
Depends on what performance you are talking? Multi role, strike, passive systems, low observability, cost-effectivity, suitability to IAF fleet... there are many performance fields where the Rafale is better. The lower RCS is more than debatable since there are no reliable sources and compared just by RCS reduction features the Rafale might even have the upper hand too.
Btw, don't compare the TWR of the current EF with that of the EF offered in MMRCA, since it is likely to be much heavier than it is now with the Swashplate AESA.
Strikeforce check out the Eurofighter vs Rafale thread on IDF and what jagjitnatt says on the topic and I share his views but I know Sancho and Spark love the Rafale.
That has nothing to do with love for a fighter but with wanting the best for Indian forces and the EF currently don't fit the bill.
Buddy spare parts on the EF is not a issue just ask the Saudis, people are making it a big thing when it's not.
It is, that's why British, Germans and Austrian are complainin about it, I posted sources about this some days ago.
There are rumours that the EF was the top performer in the test trials but they are just that rumours.
RAF Typhoon leads the race to secure £7 billion arms deal - Telegraph
Exactly rumors in British and Italian media reports, published before the EF did the trials.
