French Rafale jets give India more muscle but are ‘no game changer’ – analyst

[scorpionx]

36 Su-35s would have been an obvious game changer, I guess.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

I've heard the French are demanding that the IAF not use the Rafales against the PAF in case it destroys the aircraft's reputation and future sale prospects.

Similarly, LM now wants assurances that if F21s are sold to India, they only be used for national day fly pasts.

The Russians are however willing to sell India more MKIs, because...well, the damage is already done

Then you should hurry and take air superiority over Kashmir.

 

[Cash GK]

French Rafale jets give India more muscle but are ‘no game changer’ – analyst

New Delhi is set to receive a batch of new French-made Dassault Rafale multi-purpose fighter jets this year but that may be ‘too little, too late’ to play a part in the current flare-up with its rival Pakistan, RT has been told.

The jets “should come into India’s inventory by September,” Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa said at a press event on Monday.

Signed in 2016, the deal with Paris-based Dassault Aviation is part of New Delhi’s program to modernize the Indian Air Force (IAF) which is currently phasing out its older aircraft.


News of the brand-new fighter jets arriving this year comes just days after Indian warplanes engaged in open air combat with Pakistan over Kashmir. The IAF lost one MiG-21 Bison in the dogfight and claimed to have shot down a Pakistani F-16 – something Islamabad denied.

The Rafale multirole fighters will enhance India’s capabilities against Pakistan but “it won’t lead to any game-changing moments due to the relatively small number” of jets ordered, Mikhail Khodarenok, a military analyst and retired colonel in Russia’s missile defense forces, told RT.

New Delhi is set to receive 36 aircraft from Dassault which is not enough to achieve supremacy in the sky, the analyst said. Furthermore, integrating the new planes into the IAF, and training pilots to fly them takes time. So, “optimistically speaking, the Rafales will be fully-ready for combat only after several years,” Khodarenok explained.

The Rafales will remain outside of the current flare-up of Indo-Pakistani relations. At best, they will make it to the next conflict – if such occurs.

As for the fighter jets themselves, they “can deploy a wide array of weapons and have advanced avionics,” the expert told RT, adding that the jets will replace the older Dassault Mirage 2000s, used by India “mostly against ground targets.”

Along with the Dassault Mirage 2000s, the bulk of the IAF is made up of Russian-made Su-30s, along with various models of MiG fighters. Islamabad, meanwhile, has Dassault Mirage III and Mirage 5 fighters, the US-made F-16s, and the Chinese Chengdu J-7s, as well as JF-17 Thunder jets developed jointly by China and Pakistan.


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ask france for fighter pilots as well for that beautiful machine

 

[Ultima Thule]

36 Su-35s would have been an obvious game changer, I guess.

Then why you didn't chose Su-35 on MMRCA competition, Russia had been put MIg-35 and SU-35 for MMRCA bid @scorpionx

 

[Imran Khan]

it was some sunny day 15 years ago when india first time was threateneng us with 120+80 optional MMRCA .

 

[scorpionx]

Then why you didn't chose Su-35 on MMRCA competition, Russia had been put MIg-35 and SU-35 for MMRCA bid @scorpionx

What I am trying to point out is, the author is a Russian.

 

[Ultima Thule]

What I am trying to point out is, the author is a Russian.

Ok

 

[Hamza913]

it can't compete with the F35 or F22.

It doesn't need to.

 

[Vergennes]

Russian analysts,lol. @scorpionx If indeed that was 36 SU35s you would have heard how much it'll be a game changer and Pakistani pilots wouldn't even take off as they know they're already doomed,so why trying.

Time for Pakistan to exert pressure on France not to sell jets used for preemptive strikes

I am sure that will work.

It really doesn't matter which jets they buy. In the hands of Indian fighter pilots the F35, F22 or the Rafael will end up just like the MIG/MKI.

The Indians still haven't understood that Pakistan is no longer bound by limitations put in place for using its jets. Them screaming and lying about the Pakistani F16 is the ultimate proof. They went back to their default nature of complaining to the country/countries they see as new saviours.

Rafale (much superior to anything Pakistan currently has) coupled with meteor missiles,yes it will matter which jets they buy. It seems it hurts to many people to aknowledge the fact that India will maintain its air superiority in the skies until Pakistan comes with something equal or better.

 

[Daghalodi]

Russian analysts,lol. @scorpionx If indeed that was 36 SU35s you would have heard how much it'll be a game changer and Pakistani pilots wouldn't even take off as they know they're already doomed,so why trying.



I am sure that will work.



Rafale (much superior to anything Pakistan currently has) coupled with meteor missiles,yes it will matter which jets they buy. It seems it hurts to many people to aknowledge the fact that India will maintain its air superiority in the skies until Pakistan comes with something equal or better.

You are right!! Rafale is indeed a badboy but some indian trolls are so enthusiastic about it they claim indian rafales are better than F22

 

[graphican]

36 Su-35s would have been an obvious game changer, I guess.

Add 36 of every fighter jet the world produces, but who's going to provide you 36 of their pilots?

 

[Jinn Baba]

Russian analysts,lol. @scorpionx If indeed that was 36 SU35s you would have heard how much it'll be a game changer and Pakistani pilots wouldn't even take off as they know they're already doomed,so why trying.

This is the EXACT same language we heard when IAF inducted MKIs; and the language we had continued to hear until about a week ago.

So what has changed this past week? What happened to the MKI + R77 + Phalcon combo?

How were PAF able to take off and conduct air strikes inside India? How are they still flying with 3 Phalcons and 200 odd MKIs in India?

Rafale (much superior to anything Pakistan currently has) coupled with meteor missiles,yes it will matter which jets they buy. It seems it hurts to many people to aknowledge the fact that India will maintain its air superiority in the skies until Pakistan comes with something equal or better.

The MKI was supposed to be the second best air superiority fighter in the world, behind only the F22; and vastly superior to the Rafale until IAF actually purchased them. So what has changed? Where is the MKI hype now?

 

[Daghalodi]

The MKI was supposed to be the second best air superiority fighter in the world, behind only the F22; and vastly superior to the Rafale until IAF actually purchased them. So what has changed? Where is the MKI hype now?

All this Indian gibberish about MKI and super MKI is garbage now. Their PM has lost confidence inMKI and now wants Rafale to save them.

I wonder what will happen to tejas?? Is it still claimed to be best of the best or indians have lost hope in tejas too??

 

[scorpionx]

Add 36 of every fighter jet the world produces, but who's going to provide you 36 of their pilots?

Ohooohoo!! The great 'Man behind the Machine' Theory..How dare I forget that? Right right

 

[sohail.ishaque]

36 Su-35s would have been an obvious game changer, I guess.

hain ? kyn jee ? i thought you won the game