Decision On MRCA Combat Aircraft Within Fortnight: India

[INDIAISM]

Where did you get that from?Care to back it up with anything as I am stuck here thinking how the Rafale camp threatened to walk out on us on hearing rumors that their bird got the axe.After all,Rafales do get the axe everywhere they showed up contesting and boy are they sore losers if ever there was one. All sources point toward the Eurofighter being the robust air superiority fighter as it is.

270 Su30 MKI + 200+ FGFA brother how many more Air Superiority Fighter do you want in IAF....

 

[cyphercide]

270 Su30 MKI + 200+ FGFA brother how many more Air Superiority Fighter do you want in IAF....

Everyone of them brother,you know what I mean.



Air superiority birds with multirole capabilities is what I do advocate......

 

[Mani2020]

all i can do after reading the title

Wasn't there a thread few months ago about winner of the MRCA to be announced by december 2011.
Slap to your MODs who are playing with the feelings of millions of indians who daily wake up with a wish and hope to hear about MRCA winner , with every thread tagged with MRCA title increases their heart beats but at the end of the day they end up posting their self judged winner ...and the time runs on ........

Hasn't it been a habit of your mods to cheer you up at the end of every year with something like MRCA will be decided by spetember 2010, or december 2011 ... How many of such above news have come and gone, threads created and now being buried deep down the forum .....RIP to those threads

 

[EndoClock]

People have been licked their chops for the money to come in.

 

[Zabaniyah]

If Rafale loses this, it'd be a nail in the coffin for Dassault.

 

[indian navy]

well as per my source rafale is going to be declare

so party for them

 

[SpArK]

all i can do after reading the title

Wasn't there a thread few months ago about winner of the MRCA to be announced by december 2011.
Slap to your MODs who are playing with the feelings of millions of indians who daily wake up with a wish and hope to hear about MRCA winner , with every thread tagged with MRCA title increases their heart beats but at the end of the day they end up posting their self judged winner ...and the time runs on ........

Hasn't it been a habit of your mods to cheer you up at the end of every year with something like MRCA will be decided by spetember 2010, or december 2011 ... How many of such above news have come and gone, threads created and now being buried deep down the forum .....RIP to those threads

Yup. Millions daily wake up looking for it , cause Govt has announced they will supply fighters through ration shops to all those who apply.

Missiles and avionics are to be supplied through retailers in a subsidized price.

Sad. Disappointment.

 

[Nirvana]

well as per my source rafale is going to be declare

so party for them

Someone from Defence Ministry ??

 

[indian navy]

Someone from Defence Ministry ??

may be or may be not

 

[sancho]

Where did you get that from?Care to back it up with anything as I am stuck here thinking how the Rafale camp threatened to walk out on us on hearing rumors that their bird got the axe.After all,Rafales do get the axe everywhere they showed up contesting and boy are they sore losers if ever there was one. All sources point toward the Eurofighter being the robust air superiority fighter as it is.

Dassault ups the ante with full technology transfer for Rafale news

05 November 2008

Paris: The French government has cleared full technology transfer for Dassault's Rafale combat jet, one of the six contenders for the Indian Air Force's (IAF) 126 multi-role medium range combat aircraft (MMRCA) tender, which is estimated to be eventually worth atleast $11 billion over its lifetime.

Briefing Indian media representatives at its Champs-Elysées, Paris, headquarters Dassault Aviation's senior vice president for military sales, JPHP Chabriol, said, ''When we talk about technology transfer, we mean full technology transfer and not in bits and pieces.''

''The way we work, we first have to obtain clearance of the government before putting in our proposal. If we win the order, we can begin work on transferring technology from day one - unlike our competition,'' he added.

Critically for India, the transfer-of-technology (T-o-T) would include that of a state-of-the-art Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar that would provide Rafale the ability to also function as a close battlefield support airborne warning and control system (AWACS), apart from its designed function as a fighter. The AESA radar T-o-T would also include transfer of software source code, according to Chabriol...

domain-b.com : Dassault ups the ante with full technology transfer for Rafale


Again, you are taking the usual gossip for granted, without thinking about the reasons why it lost, especially in comparison to the EF! Rafale was shortlisted to the final rounds in any competition it attended, whereas India is the first time that the EF was shortlisted. That alone tells us something about the technical and cost differences of both fighters, since so many different countries with different requirements rejected the EF because of these issues.
However, in the final round, just like we can see now in the MMRCA, neither techs and capabilities of the fighter, nor the requirements of the air force are important (as we have seen in Swiss just recently), because the final decision is with the MoD/government and they have their own reasons to buy or not to buy a fighter. Singapore, S. Korea and now Japan obviously went with US fighters for political reasons, same goes for the Netherlands, that evaluated Rafale as 2nd best and very close to F35. Switzerland clearly evaluated the Rafale as number 1, but can't afford (and don't really need) anything else than the Gripen at the moment. Brazilian government openly stated their preference for Rafale, but with their current financial situation, they can't afford it either.
All these countries were at least highly interested in Rafale, but didn't selected it although it performed very well in the evaluations and the same can happen in India as well. I have no doubt that Rafale is way ahead of EF on technical and performance reasons, but MMRCA has a high economical / industrial part and that's where the EF has it's strong points. If our MoD / GoI thinks that offer is so good, that we can look over the shortcomings of the fighter, we will take EF. But as I always stated, I want the best fighter for the requirements of our forces and that's obviously the Rafale!

Btw, the EF is a robust air superiority fighter, but that's not what IAF / IN wants, they want a multi role fighter, something the EF is very far away from!

 

[Solar Flare]

Full Transfer of Technology (TOT)? I hope Rafale wins MMRCA

 

[Bl[i]tZ]

"#MMRCA rumour: Lowest bidder to emerge post-Christmas. Yawn." - livefist