India To Equip Rafale Jets With HAMMER Missiles Under Emergency Order: Report

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Government sources say the order for the HAMMER missiles is being processed and France has agreed to supply them at a short notice for the Rafale combat aircraft.

All IndiaANI
Updated: July 23, 2020 07:21 pm IST

Five Rafale jets would be arriving in India from France on July 29. (Representational)


The order for the HAMMER standoff missiles with the capability to take out any types of targets at the range of around 60-70 km is being processed under the emergency powers for acquisition given to the armed forces by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

"The order for the HAMMER missiles is being processed and the French authorities have agreed to supply them to us at a short notice for our Rafale combat aircraft," government sources told news agency ANI.

In view of the urgent requirement for these missiles by the Air Force, the French authorities would be delivering the systems to India from the existing stock meant for some other customer, they said.

HAMMER (Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range) is a medium-range air-to-ground weapon designed and manufactured for the French Air Force and Navy initially.

The HAMMERs would give India the capability to take out any bunkers or hardened shelters in any type of terrain including the mountainous locations such as Eastern Ladakh, the sources said.

An IAF spokesperson refused to confirm or deny the developments related to the new acquisition.

Five Rafale jets would be arriving in India from France on July 29 and their advanced weaponry including the long-range SCALP and Meteor missiles would have reached India before their touchdown.

The first five Rafale fighter aircraft would start arriving in India by July 29 flown by pilots of the 17 Golden Arrows commanding officer.

The delivery of the aircraft was earlier supposed to have been done by May end but this was postponed by two months in view of the COVID-19 outbreak in India and France.

The trainers will have the tail numbers of the RB series in honour of the Air Force Chief RKS Bhadauria who played a pivotal role in finalising India's largest-ever defence deal for 36 Rafale combat aircraft.

The aircraft on their way from France to India would be refuelled by a French Air Force tanker aircraft in the air around Israel or Greece before they make a stopover in the Middle East. India had signed a deal worth over Rs 60,000 crore with France in September 2016 for 36 Rafales to meet the emergency requirements of the Indian Air Force.

Air Chief Marshal Bhadauria was the Deputy Chief of Air Staff at that time and headed the Indian negotiation team for the deal which is the biggest ever in monetary terms in India. Armed with the long-range Meteor air-to-air missiles and SCALP, the Rafale jets would give India an edge over both Pakistan and China in terms of air strike capability.

Sources said the air-to-air and the air-to-ground strike capabilities of the Rafale cannot be matched by both China and Pakistan and the aircraft would give India an edge over both the countries.

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In view of the urgent requirement for these missiles by the Air Force, the French authorities would be delivering the systems to India from the existing stock meant for some other customer, they said.

The french must have milked india hard with that

 

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The french must have milked india hard with that

Everyone want to milk India. Pakistan want, China also. France and Russia milked India successfully, damn, damn.

 

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Everyone want to milk India. Pakistan want, China also. France and Russia milked India successfully, damn, damn.

If India and China weren't enemies, I'm certain the Indians would purchase the Type 15 light tank in a heartbeat.

 

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Sources said the air-to-air and the air-to-ground strike capabilities of the Rafale cannot be matched by both China and Pakistan and the aircraft would give India an edge over both the countries.

J-10B Superior to French Rafale Fighter Jet

mt.sohu.com says in its report on March 14 that China’s fighter jets are wonderful and able to defeat the Rafale fighter jet India will import from France.
The report admits that Rafale is better than China’s J-10 and J-11B but stresses that China has developed J-10B, an improved version of J-10 that is better than Rafale in the following respects:

1. J-10B is as good and Rafale in undetectability;
2. J-10B has better maneuverability as it uses new WS10B turbofan with 135 KN thrust, digital control and vectoring nozzle. It can fly faster and higher than Rafale
3. It is installed with better active phased array radar with 1,000-1,200 modules able to detect and identify a target as small as 3 square meters 160-180 km away and track quite a few targets simultaneously, while Rafale’s CSF-ESDRBC fire control radar is very much backward in being able to track only 8 targets simultaneously.
4. J-10B’s air-to-air missiles PL-12 and PL-13 respectively have the range of 80 and 160 km and a maximum speed of Mach 4 while Rafale’s has only a range of 50 km and speed of Mach 3.

Source: mt.sohu.com “China’s fighter jet very brilliant: J-10 is entirely able to defeat Rafale!”

 

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