French Defence Minister To Push For Early Decision on Rafale MMRCA

[Donatello]

Because delays of the licence production, based on failures or mistakes from Dassaults side, would be responsibility of Dassault, not HAL's. If China delays the delivery of parts, or provides you with wrong ToT for JF 17s licence production, you don't blame PAC either or?
Since we have experience with such problems in the MKI or Hawk licence production, keeping Dassault committed to the whole production is a logical move, but this has nothing to do with responsibility as mentioned earlier.

Yes, Dassault should only be held responsible for it's part. Once the parts are shipped and HAL takes over the production process, then Dassault cannot be held responsible. And that is what Dassault needs to make sure, so that it's own interests are protected.

 

[sancho]

Yes, Dassault should only be held responsible for it's part. Once the parts are shipped and HAL takes over the production process, then Dassault cannot be held responsible. And that is what Dassault needs to make sure, so that it's own interests are protected.

Providing the necessary tooling and ToT is their part, that's why they must be taken accountable for the whole deal till the last fighter is produced. They won't be taken accountable for mistakes of HAL, but for their mistakes during the licence production, just as BAE was taken accountable for the mistakes:

BAE Pays Damages To India Over Hawk Trainer Buy

British military firm BAE Systems will pay £6.5 million ($10 million) in damages to India for supplying defective components and fixtures for Hawk Mk-132 advanced jet trainers to state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL), which delayed delivery of the aircraft to the Indian air force (IAF).
Under the original $2 billion contract signed in 2004, 24 of the single-engine aircraft were to be delivered directly by BAE, with the remaining 42 to be assembled by HAL. But HAL faced several difficulties in assembling the AJTs because most of the tools and equipment supplied by the British firm were defective, junior Defense Minister M.M. Pallam Raju says. The resulting delays forced the IAF to keep training pilots on MiG-21 aircraft, which the Hawks were meant to replace. The Hawk was inducted into the IAF in 2008...

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