India to buy 60-63 Rafales jets off the shelf from France; MMRCA deal off:

[Chanakya's_Chant]

F3R will enter in production from 2018....

Sabr ka phal meetha hota hai

Anyways F3 R standard should be considered for the rest 108 fighters for they all are to serve IAF for at least three decades.

Whatttt !!!!! Is this a mistake ? For Egypt nuclear delivery system will be taken off ... why for India ?

And as per this article F3. R won't be able to fire Meteor Missiles ? Only upgraded F4 can fire them ?

BrahMos-M can compensate for ASMP-A - BrahMos-M may be heavier at 1.4-ton weight (against 860 kg ASMP-A) but in no other parameter is it outperformed by the ASMP-A.

 

[The_Sidewinder]

Newer the better..

 

[Abingdonboy]

Shouldn't have India gone for F3 R Standard which was launched very recently? or at least the rest 108 aircraft to be manufactured by HAL should be of F3 R Standard? @MilSpec @Abingdonboy @sancho

This says it all:

India will place orders for 36 Rafale aircrafts which will be of exact standard which were tested by Indian air force under MMRCA Technical evaluation trials few years back which means it will be of the current production standard which is F3.3.

Earlier last year French government and Dassault Aviation have agreed to start work on “F3 R” standard which will bring further upgrades to F3.3 standard.

, New“F3 R” standard Rafales will enter production from 2018 on-wards.

The F3.3 standard is what Dassualt plant is currently churning out and given the 36 built for India will enter into production imminently they will be of the same standard. The F3 R will only be available from 2018 (i.e. after all 36 Rafales have been delivered to India) so the later batches delivered to India will be of this standard and the earlier F3.3 batch brought up to this standard (or an even later standard) in their MLUs.

 

[Matrixx]

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[Abingdonboy]

Anyways F3 R standard should be considered for the rest 108 fighters for they all are to serve IAF for at least three decades.

The standard the fighters enter service as won't be the standard they end their service lives- look how many times the Jaguars, MiGs etc have been upgraded. There will be a F.5 standard and beyond to keep these birds cutting edge and relevant.

 

[Abingdonboy]

wow, just went thru the thread and I'm......... still confused

so 36 French produced Rafales confirmed, what about the rest of the 90 ?.. a mix of Indian made Rafales and/or Russian fighters ?

36 Rafales coming off the shelf from France (as opposed to 18 as per the MMRCA) with the remaining 108 to be built in India deal being under negotiation as we speak.


So at a minimum India is getting 144 Rafales but it could be as many as 207 if the IAF exercise the option for 63 follow on units.

 

[indianBong]

Top Sources Confirm : India has to buy at-least 3 Squadrons of f-35 For EMALS TOT FOR THE NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

Your source is obama???

 

[metronome]

36 Rafales coming off the shelf from France (as opposed to 18 as per the MMRCA) with the remaining 108 to be built in India deal being under negotiation as we speak.


So at a minimum India is getting 144 Rafales but it could be as many as 207 if the IAF exercise the option for 63 follow on units.

 

[vsdave2302]

PLAAF still have MIG 15 & MIG 19

That helps them to increase the number to match numbers of US' F 35 and F22s and F15 etc. After all Chinese airforce is not much behind (ofcourse in Numbers).

 

[Stephen Cohen]

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[ito]

Top Sources Confirm : India has to buy at-least 3 Squadrons of f-35 For EMALS TOT FOR THE NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

I don't know if it true now, but there was some news regarding this

Lockheed to offer fifth generation F-35 fighters to Navy - The Times of India

@Abingdonboy what are chances of India having F-35?

 

[Matrixx]

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[Sulman Badshah]

A nice bird ....

 

[Stephen Cohen]

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[Matrixx]

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