India selects EF, Rafale for MMRCA shortlist

[SpArK]

Eurofighters In Iceland For The Northern Viking Exercise​

 

[sancho]

Dassault asked what will protect India in the 21st century?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6wypY_A2p4I/Tdr3K-I4h6I/AAAAAAAABKs/xtbk76pWXJ4/s1600/capturexku.png


I hope this deadly combo ! ! !

 

[sudhir007]

Euro firms submit offset bids for aircraft deal | idrw.org

Two months after being shortlisted, French firm Dassault and consortium of European companies Eurofighter have submitted their revised offset bids for the multi-billion dollar 126 combat aircraft deal, the process for which is expected to be completed by the year end.

On April 27, India has shortlisted the two European companies for procuring 126 Medium-Multirole Combat Aircraft (M-MRCA) deal for the Indian Air Force (IAF) in which six companies were participating.

“The offsets offer, which were completed until April 14 this year, have been asked to be revised until June 17 that is today,” German Ambassador Thomas Mattusek told reporters here.

Officials in Dassault also said they have already submitted the revised bids with the ministry.

Under the offsets clause in the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP), foreign vendors bagging deals worth over Rs 300 crore have to reinvest at least 30 per cent of the contract amount into Indian defence, civilian aerospace or the homeland security sectors.

In the M-MRCA competition, companies have to invest 50 per cent of the worth of the deal into the Indian defence sector only.

“The shortlist and commercial biddings are expected to be opened in the next few weeks so that the whole project is expected to be finalised by the end of this year,” the German Ambassador said.

Germany along with United Kingdom, Spain and Italy is one of the four partner nations in the Eurofighter consortium and is the lead country for the Indian campaign.

 

[SpArK]

Identify the girl.

 

[Break the Silence]

Identify the girl.

Who is She???

 

[SpArK]

Thanks, But No Thanks​

Posted by Robert Wall at 6/17/2011 5:05 AM CDT

Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Eurofighter are all gearing up for Japan’s new fighter competition, but Dassault Aviation – another stalwart in the global fighter campaigns now unfolding – opted not to play. Why?

Dassault Aviation chairman and CEO Charles Edelstenne is not shy about saying the he did not want to play the role of a stalking horse. “Our belief is that the Japanese have issued the RFP only to have some rabbit for the Americans to chase.” But that’s not a role he wants to be in. “We are not ready to spend millions [on a campaign] only to be used as a rabbit for the Americans.”

Instead, Dassault remains focused on other potential export orders, with competitions in India, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates the highest profile. Which does Edelstenne rate the most important? The one he signs first, he quips, noting that the decision timelines are dictated by the government.

Each of the competitions has its own intricacies. India, for instance, has placed huge demands on bidders – now down to the Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale – in terms of industrial offsets. Edelstenne acknowledges that the “compensation is really very tough. It will be very difficult to answer to this request.” However, he’s not scared. “We will negotiate,” he says. “First of all, I want to be chosen, and then we will negotiate.”

As for the UAE – perhaps the longest-running campaign for the Rafale – Edelstenne notes the 9 metric ton thrust version of the M88 engine is available. What is more, a Dassault official notes the that ground moving target indicator radar modes the UAE has expressed interest in – they are not required by the French customer – could be easily provided by Thales, since it already has demonstrated those capabilities on Mirage 2000s.


Thanks, But No Thanks

 

[sancho]

As far as I remember, this is one of the first pictures of a Rafale loaded with LGTR bombs. These small laser guided inert bombs are used for training purpose but the DGA is also evaluateing the possibility to use them as a limited effect weapons against military vehicles.

Rafale News: Rafale Pictures of the day


For the record:

http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-...f-rafale-mmrca-shortlist-112.html#post1834614

 

[sancho]

Rafale 30,000 hours special paint job

 

[lepziboy]

Identify the girl.

selena gomez?lol

 

[SpArK]

oops EFT

Saab fingers BAE over South African fighter deal

Financial News, 20th June 2011 11:52 GMT


UK-headquartered arms globocorp BAE Systems is back in the spotlight over allegedly corrupt business practices after its partner Saab announced that it had submitted documents to the Swedish national anti-corruption prosecutor and specifically named BAE.

Saab makes the Gripen fighters now being delivered to the South African air force, under a deal which was done with BAE providing marketing and sales expertise to Saab. Last week Saab issued a statement saying:

Saab decided to launch an investigation after details emerged in the media about a contract with a South African consultant about which Saab had no prior knowledge.
Saab has now completed a review of the contract and the financial transactions of the company Sanip Pty Ltd [owned by Saab] during the period in question.

Our review revealed that approximately 24 million rand was paid from BAE Systems to Sanip. These payments were transferred to the South African consultant shortly thereafter.

"These transactions have never entered into the accounts," says Saab's President and CEO Håkan Buskhe in accompanying tinned quotes, adding:

"A person emplyed by BAE Systems has without Saab’s knowledge signed a for us unknown contract, signed for us up until now unknown transactions as well as signing the audited and apparently inaccurate financial statement for 2003."

Saab says it has passed everything it has on the matter to Chief Prosecutor Gunnar Stetler at the Swedish National Anti-Corruption Unit, and says that it will remain "at the complete disposal of the Chief Prosecutor in this case".

BAE said in a statement supplied to the BBC:

This and other matters were fully reviewed by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and formed part of the overall resolution that the company reached with the SFO in February 2010. Any questions relating to Saab and its subsidiaries should be directed to Saab.

An SFO spokesman confirmed to the Reg this morning that last year's agreement between the SFO and BAE included the provision that there would be no further prosecutions relating to matters which the SFO had been investigating to that date, which included the South African Gripen deal. Thus there would seem to be no prospect of any action by the SFO.

However BAE has a sizeable corporate presence in Sweden: the global defence mammoth owns the Hägglunds armoured-vehicles factory, the famous Bofors cannon plant and simulation business C-ITS. Until quite recently BAE liked to describe Sweden as one of its "home markets", though it no longer does so. BAE Systems AB, the company's substantial Swedish tentacle, lies firmly in the Swedish prosecutor's jurisdiction.

Alongside the agreement last year with the SFO, under which BAE agreed to pay £30m in fines in the UK, BAE also settled with the US Justice Department over a range of offences committed in different countries. The $400m US fine covered, among other things, corrupt dealings associated with its marketing of Saab Gripens in Eastern Europe and violations of US export-control laws during the same deals. (The Gripen, like all modern Western-made combat jets, contains substantial amounts of controlled US technology and its export to any third party requires US scrutiny and consent.)

BAE has just announced the formation of an advisory board which will oversee the paying-out of £29.5m compensation to the people of Tanzania, a move it agreed to make as part of last year's deal with the SFO. The firm had previously sold the poverty-stricken nation a radar system in a massively controversial £28m deal which saw large amounts of the money paid allegedly kicked back into overseas accounts. ®

Saab fingers BAE over South African fighter deal ? The Register

 

[brational]

oops EFT

Saab fingers BAE over South African fighter deal

Financial News, 20th June 2011 11:52 GMT




UK-headquartered arms globocorp BAE Systems is back in the spotlight over allegedly corrupt business practices after its partner Saab announced that it had submitted documents to the Swedish national anti-corruption prosecutor and specifically named BAE.

Saab makes the Gripen fighters now being delivered to the South African air force, under a deal which was done with BAE providing marketing and sales expertise to Saab. Last week Saab issued a statement saying:

Saab decided to launch an investigation after details emerged in the media about a contract with a South African consultant about which Saab had no prior knowledge.
Saab has now completed a review of the contract and the financial transactions of the company Sanip Pty Ltd [owned by Saab] during the period in question.

Our review revealed that approximately 24 million rand was paid from BAE Systems to Sanip. These payments were transferred to the South African consultant shortly thereafter.

"These transactions have never entered into the accounts," says Saab's President and CEO Håkan Buskhe in accompanying tinned quotes, adding:

"A person emplyed by BAE Systems has without Saab’s knowledge signed a for us unknown contract, signed for us up until now unknown transactions as well as signing the audited and apparently inaccurate financial statement for 2003."

Saab says it has passed everything it has on the matter to Chief Prosecutor Gunnar Stetler at the Swedish National Anti-Corruption Unit, and says that it will remain "at the complete disposal of the Chief Prosecutor in this case".

BAE said in a statement supplied to the BBC:

This and other matters were fully reviewed by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and formed part of the overall resolution that the company reached with the SFO in February 2010. Any questions relating to Saab and its subsidiaries should be directed to Saab.

An SFO spokesman confirmed to the Reg this morning that last year's agreement between the SFO and BAE included the provision that there would be no further prosecutions relating to matters which the SFO had been investigating to that date, which included the South African Gripen deal. Thus there would seem to be no prospect of any action by the SFO.

However BAE has a sizeable corporate presence in Sweden: the global defence mammoth owns the Hägglunds armoured-vehicles factory, the famous Bofors cannon plant and simulation business C-ITS. Until quite recently BAE liked to describe Sweden as one of its "home markets", though it no longer does so. BAE Systems AB, the company's substantial Swedish tentacle, lies firmly in the Swedish prosecutor's jurisdiction.

Alongside the agreement last year with the SFO, under which BAE agreed to pay £30m in fines in the UK, BAE also settled with the US Justice Department over a range of offences committed in different countries. The $400m US fine covered, among other things, corrupt dealings associated with its marketing of Saab Gripens in Eastern Europe and violations of US export-control laws during the same deals. (The Gripen, like all modern Western-made combat jets, contains substantial amounts of controlled US technology and its export to any third party requires US scrutiny and consent.)

BAE has just announced the formation of an advisory board which will oversee the paying-out of £29.5m compensation to the people of Tanzania, a move it agreed to make as part of last year's deal with the SFO. The firm had previously sold the poverty-stricken nation a radar system in a massively controversial £28m deal which saw large amounts of the money paid allegedly kicked back into overseas accounts. ®

Saab fingers BAE over South African fighter deal ? The Register

Dhanda hai yeh sab ganda hai..

 

[sancho]

First reports and pics from the Paris Air Show coming in:

U.K. Typhoons Pair With Tornadoes for Libya Strikes

By ANDREW CHUTER • PARIS — New to the ground attack role, British Typhoons operating over Libya are pairing with Tornado GR4s to benefit from 20 years of strike experience gained by crews of the older aircraft in Iraq and Afghanistan, said a Royal Air Force officer, speaking ahead of the show opening June 20.

But it’s not just mentoring that the Tornado crews are giving their partners. Squadron Leader Rupert Joel told reporters at the show that the older aircraft were also taking most of the load when laser-designating the Typhoon’s Enhanced Paveway II bombs.

Most of the weapons released by the aircraft use GPS Aided Inertial Navigation Systems for guidance, but when laser designation is also required, it’s the Tornado navigator who normally does the job, Joel said.

Both aircraft use the Litening laser designator pod. All Typhoon pilots in Libya are able to self-designate their own weapons using GPS or laser, but few actually use the latter option, passing that off to their Tornado buddies...

...The mixed pairs concept overcomes the current limitation of Typhoon, because the Tornado can use several types of Paveway bombs, plus Storm Shadow and the Brimstone anti-tank missile...

U.K. Typhoons Pair With Tornadoes for Libya Strikes – News From The International 2011 Paris Air Show - Defense News Premium Show Scout

That's what happens when you try to do the strike role with a single seat fighter and very limited strike capabilities!

 

[sancho]

Talking about strike capability, Rafale displayed on the Paris Air Show with some interesting new weapons:

LGTR bomb

Check post #1702 for more infos!


Laser guided rocket pod (this time it seems to be the real one, not only a mock up)

Triple Brimstone ATGM (in the background)

Credits to Xav from the MP forum!

 

[sancho]

The Rafale newsblog is also reporting from the Air Show and has released videos of a Dassault Aviation press conference with the CEO with some interesting statements:

Main points :


Lybia :

Spectra has allowed the Rafale to enter first in the Libyan airspace while the Lybian Air defenses were still consistant Total interroperability, excellent reliability and availability demonstrated AASM demonstrated at a range of 57 km against a tank All the scalps launched have hit their target


Rafale F3+ :

First deliveries in 2013
RBE-2 AESA qualification in 2012 and deliveries in 2013
Meteor planned for 2018 or earlier Other improvements expected due to field experience : on the Canon, FBW system, introduction of concrete bombs.


French deliveries :

180 Rafale on order 98 delivered (the 100th is flying and its delivery is expected in September) 82 remaining planes to be built between now and 2018 at a rate of 11 aicrafts/year Further deliveries for french needs should continue until about 2025


Export:

Program cost increase only by 4.7% in 25 years thanks to significant optimizations to reduce production costs. Rafale global cost would be 60% less expensive than a typhoon
Dassault Aviation CEO says he's "more than optimistic" in India adding that the Rafale does have capabilities that the Eurofigter doesn't have. Indian offsets requierements are vey high and could be difficult to fulfill.
Dassault declined to answer the japan's RFQ/RFI because they are convinced that the Final choice will be american, no matter what. "We don't want to spend money to serve as a rabbit for the USA" said Edelstenne.
Switzerland competion re-opened with very good chances for the Rafale 9 Tonnes engine for the UAE can be offered without any problem Brazil FX-2 competition in stand by but should start up again in 2012

Rafale News: Le Bourget 2011, Dassault aviation CEO press conference


Btw, some interesting comments from him about the EF partnership and why having 4 partners that all wants to lead, or wants their own prototypes for tests and stuff made things more difficult and expensive.

 

[sancho]

More nice pics of the Rafale in grey and black on the following link:

SpottingZone - Afficher le sujet - [Juin 2011] MNA BA 113 de Saint-Dizier