Delhi’s interest in MiG-35 is growing

[HariPrasad]

Delhi’s interest in MiG-35 is growing
Published August 28, 2015 | By admin
SOURCE: RIA Novosti.

Interest in India about the newest Russian fighter jet, the MiG-35, is growing, because the number of French Dassault Rafale fighter jets to be purchased has decreased, Sergey Korotkov, General Director of the Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RAC MiG) told RIA Novosti during an interview.

“Given the limited purchase of Rafale fighter jets, and the urgent need to upgrade the fighter jet fleet, interest in the MiG-35 has been objectively increasing. This issue is currently being discussed in professional circles of India,” said Korotkov.

During a visit to France in April, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that an agreement had been signed, between India and France, for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets. Earlier, India had planned to buy 126 of these aircraft.

The tender to supply Rafale aircraft to India was won by the French in 2012, when their fighter jet was chosen over the Russian MiG-35, the European Eurofighter Typhoon, the Swedish SAAB JAS-39 Gripen, and the American F-16 and F/A-18E/F. However, the contract was never concluded. Some of the aircraft were to be delivered as a finished product, while the rest were to be made by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in India, using technologies from the Dassault Company. The reason differences arose during contract negotiations was the increased price for fighter jets demanded by the French, and the unwillingness of Dassault to give guarantees for aircraft that were supposed to be produced by HAL.

As Korotkov told RIA Novosti earlier this year, RAC MiG has “every opportunity to compete” and the corporation “retains hopes that a new tender competition will be announced”.

The MiG-35 is a new combat aviation system, whose avionics include integrated fifth-generation information and targeting systems. This is a multi-functional aircraft that can be equipped with high-precision weapons to attack any target, and it can also perform certain functions that were previously assigned to reconnaissance aircraft.

 

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Delhi’s interest in MiG-35 is growing

 

[Chanakyaa]

Presstitutes. India will Go with Rafale + PAKFA + tejas. No MIgs.

 

[HariPrasad]

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Delhi’s interest in MiG-35 is growing

I am sorry.

Presstitutes. India will Go with Rafale + PAKFA + tejas. No MIgs.

I would like the Migs. highly specific version for India like MKI. Reason being it is unmatched in agility and available at Rs 150 Crore. It can kick the a$$ of any European fighters like MKI did to EF.

+Russia shall transfer all technology. We may plan an all composite MIG 35 alos and incorporate SU 35 features.

 

[Beethoven]

There was also this talk of SAAB offering to locally produce Gripen in India and help in the production of LCA so India has options on the table its just a matter of which product are they going to pick up in the long run...ohh and by the way MiG-35 is pretty sleek looking

 

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It was the best option for the IAF but they did not want to be overly dependant on the Russians hence the Rafale

 

[GURU DUTT]

It was the best option for the IAF but they did not want to be overly dependant on the Russians hence the Rafale

to some extend you are right specially regarding the spare parts problem after the fall of USSR but in current scenario IAF needed a first strike jet fighter that doesnt needs any escorts and onli rafale can do that deu to its onlirole capability and SEPCTRA EW/Self protection suite but frenchies got way too greedy in the process but then again if russians can give a troublefree and leathel pakage(with something as capable as SPECTRA) Mig-35 seems to be the best product as for cost of one rafale we can have 3 Mig-35s and save much much more on training , munations/wepons and maintainence infra as we already have 100+ Mig29s

 

[Chanakyaa]

It was the best option for the IAF but they did not want to be overly dependant on the Russians hence the Rafale

Its NOT. :

- Spare issues as with Mig 29s
- MKI issues related to High Flying Hours
- Development stil Incomplete
- Old Wine in a New Bottle

PAK FA and Su 35 are the only Jets in Russian Inventory, which seem to be on par with Western Jets in terms of Stresses faced due to Flying Hours. ( ? )

IAF is practicing as per western Standards, It loves Mirage for a Reason and No doubt rafale is the Best Choice.
Had it been a French or a Russian product, SH-18 was an awesome fit , the ONLY jet with all goodies( AESA / Multi Role ) READY much before the Trials.

to some extend you are right specially regarding the spare parts problem after the fall of USSR but in current scenario IAF needed a first strike jet fighter that doesnt needs any escorts and onli rafale can do that deu to its onlirole capability and SEPCTRA EW/Self protection suite but frenchies got way too greedy in the process but then again if russians can give a troublefree and leathel pakage(with something as capable as SPECTRA) Mig-35 seems to be the best product as for cost of one rafale we can have 3 Mig-35s and save much much more on training , munations/wepons and maintainence infra as we already have 100+ Mig29s

F/A 18 as well, but but but.... AMERCANNN !!

 

[GURU DUTT]

Its NOT. :

- Spare issues as with Mig 29s
- MKI issues related to High Flying Hours
- Development stil Incomplete
- Old Wine in a New Bottle

PAK FA and Su 35 are the only Jets in Russian Inventory, which seem to be on par with Western Jets in terms of Stresses faced due to Flying Hours. ( ? )

IAF is practicing as per western Standards, It loves Mirage for a Reason and No doubt rafale is the Best Choice.
Had it been a French or a Russian product, SH-18 was an awesome fit , the ONLY jet with all goodies( AESA / Multi Role ) READY much before the Trials.



F/A 18 as well, but but but.... AMERCANNN !!

F/A-18 advanced super hornet is the best thing if it ever happens but the problem is we will need totalli new doctrine and "training/maintanence/wepons" infra but since IAF is already well versed with M2K so Rafale will be easy to absorb and if russians can give low mentanence & smokeless engines with something like SPECTRA nothing can be better than Mig-35

 

[Asian.Century]

Since India does not have funds.....IAF chief's statement saying if not Rafael in high numbers IAF need something else of similar capability that could mean a MIG 35 or SU 35. or PAK-FA T-50?

New shot for the MiG-35 in India

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is finalizing a new tender for purchase of medium-sized multirole fighters. The tender’s main condition is that the supplier consents to the aircraft being assembled in India. The main issue to watch will be whether the Russian MiG-35 can out-manoeuvre its French competitor, the Rafale fighter, this time around.

After the Indian government opted to buy 36 Rafale jet fighters “off the shelf” during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to France earlier this year, the Indian Defence Ministry is preparing to acquire more fighter aircraft to fulfil the needs of the armed forces.

According to the Indian news agency IANS, Indian authorities are preparing to issue an official tender proposal for the supply of 90 new medium-sized fighters for the Indian Air Force. According to IANS, participants in the earlier bid (to acquire 126 aircraft originally) for purchase of medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA), which ended with the government deciding to buy only 36 Rafale fighters, will be invited to participate in the tender. This means that the Russian MiG-35, which lost out to the Rafale bid last time, can again take part in the bid.


MiG-35: The plane that won’t die

The first conditions for the tender were formulated back in 2005. Due to a variety of delays and coordination efforts, commercial proposals for the bid were only accepted from 2007. The IAF needed to buy 126 airplanes, for which the Russian MiG-35 (a totally revamped version of the MiG-29), the French Rafale, the all-European Eurofighter Typhoon, the Swedish Grippen, and the American F-16 all competed. It was the largest defence deal ever for India.

The MiG-35 failed to make it to the bid’s shortlist. In 2012, it was announced that the Rafale had won the tender. Later on, however, various delays and difficult negotiations between the French manufacturers and the Indian authorities began.

The Indian side was dissatisfied with the increase in the price for the lifecycle maintenance contract as well as on the price of the aircraft itself. Also, the two sides could not agree on the principles regarding the possible transfer of technology, which India insisted upon. As a result, in 2015, the contract for the supply of 126 fighters was annulled and replaced with one for the purchase of 36 fighters, which India agreed to buy in France directly.

The Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar informed Parliament last week that the government has officially withdrawn the multi-billion dollar tender for the 126 Medium Multi Role Combat Aircrafts (MMRCA), for which Rafale was shortlisted in 2012.

According the IANS news agency’s sources in the Indian armed forces, all the participants in the 2007 bid should be invited for the new tender – including the Russian MiG-35. The agency’s interlocutors particularly emphasized that, following the new tender, the aircraft must be manufactured in India. This will make it one of the elements of the “Make in India” project, an ambitious programme launched by the current Prime Minister Modi, which involves bringing new technologies to India and localizing modern production within the country.

The inclusion of new defence projects in the programme still faces certain difficulties. In particular, P. Srinivasan Raghavan, Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation,said in a July interview with the Press Trust of India that, possibly, the only defence project in the “Make in India” programme will be deployment of the manufacture of the Russian Ka-226 transport helicopter to India. Now, a more ambitious and much larger project involving producing fighter planes may be part of ‘Make in India.’

United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) representatives told Gazeta.ru that they are not ready yet to comment on the possible participation in a tender that has yet to be announced. In the opinion of Russian aviation industry experts, such participation is quite likely. The opinions of the experts interviewed differed, however, regarding the chances for winning such a potential tender.


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“In their defence policy, the Indians have always been distinguished by their unwillingness to put all their eggs in one basket, and the fact that they try to choose suppliers from various countries, said Ruslan Gusarov, editor of the Avia.ru website. “They are working with us on the production of the Su-30 heavy fighters, so they decided to choose Rafale for lighter class fighters. But the MiG-35 may have an advantage in the tender. India is definitely interested in technology transfer above all, and we are willing to share it more than others.” In the opinion of Gusarov, the Russian aviation market, including for military products, is not so great, so India presents good opportunities for developing promising projects.

An expert at the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, Maksim Shapovalenko regards with greater scepticism the prospects for the Russian fighter in the new competition: “The new bid is factually a continuation of the former. The project for the supply of 126 Rafale fighters fell through, primarily because of the inability to agree on a procedure for the transfer of technology to India. The French agreed to a transfer in principle; however, they refused to take responsibility for a product which would be assembled in India, rightly mistrusting the quality of assembly. I do not exclude the possibility that the new tender is just a suave way of getting the manufacturer Rafale to finally accept India’s terms.”

New shot for the MiG-35 in India | Russia & India Report