Saab Begins Work On IAF's MMRCA Tender

[Zapper]

Saab, a Swedish based automobile manufacturer, is looking forward to conducting meetings with the Indian companies this month, to develop the Indian ecosystem to build the multi-role fighter aircraft.

In April 2018, the Indian Air Force announced an initial tender or Request for Information (RFI) for the Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA). Saab, being one among the global defense manufacturers to acquire the bid, replied in response to the IAF's initial tender in July 2018 with it's Gripen E MRFA.

According to sources, Mats Palmberg, VP Industrial Partnership, Saab, has confirmed that the company has already conducted surveys for aerostructures parts, which include sub-assemblies, machined, and sheet metal parts. He also said that Saab is in constant talk with its international partners and suppliers and the Indian companies.


"The industry evaluation tour will take place for 10 days in mid-October. A dozen Indian SMEs suitable for systems manufacturing will be met by a team consisting of different Saab companies, international system suppliers headed by members of the Gripen for India team, " states Mats, on the sideline of India Sweden Innovation Day.

"Some discussions have resulted in MoUs with a mutual intention to work together on a broader basis in defense and also in the execution phase of the Gripen E program in India," he adds.

Along with the fighter jets, Saab is also intending to offer the comprehensive transfer of capability packages focused on building indigenous capabilities to design, develop, produce and maintain a modern state of the art fighter system platform.

"The build-up of those capabilities will require substantial investments from the Indian as well as from international partners. Investments will need to be made in facilities, training, machinery, etc.," concludes Mats.

https://www.siliconindia.com/news/business/Saab-Begins-Work-On--IAFs-Tender-nid-210438-cid-3.html

 

[TNT]

Saab basically begging for a contract lolz. Indians would be really stupid to go for gripen after buying rafales.

 

[cloud4000]

I hope the SAAB realizes that the Indian defense procurement process is quite the labyrinth. Need patience and sanity to endure it.

 

[Haris Ali2140]

I hope the SAAB realizes that the Indian defense procurement process is quite the labyrinth. Need patience and sanity to endure it.

They also retracted from submarine tender.

 

[Zapper]

They also retracted from submarine tender.

That is because of the Strategic Partnership (SP) policy under which the contract is being processed

Saab basically begging for a contract lolz. Indians would be really stupid to go for gripen after buying rafales.

IAF wouldn't go for Gripen because that would be essentially killing the Tejas project and all it's future variants - Mk-1A, Mk-2 and MWF

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

That is because of the Strategic Partnership (SP) policy under which the contract is being processed


IAF wouldn't go for Gripen because that would be essentially killing the Tejas project and all it's future variants - Mk-1A, Mk-2 and MWF

Which plane do you think India is likely to choose ?

 

[BATMAN]

Saab basically begging for a contract lolz. Indians would be really stupid to go for gripen after buying rafales.

actually what happened on 27th Feb. have forced Indians to turn to SAAB.

 

[Zapper]

Which plane do you think India is likely to choose ?

MMRCA 2.0 is unlikely to happen for obvious reasons
1. IAF top brass's hunger for kickbacks would delay the tender process by 5-10 years and even after that if a jet is finalized, it would take a couple of years for setting up of manufacturing facilities (since 114 jets would definitely involve local production), establishing supply chain etc and by the time we receive our first jet which would be well over a decade, most countries would be phasing out their 4th gen jets

2. There is a possibility IAF might go for additional Rafales (36 more) as the follow on order clause. If IN also opts for Rafale-M for the IAC-3 (54 required), there is a possibility we might negotiate for localized production

3. Procuring American platforms would come with all the strings attached and there is a high possibility for sanctions if we go against their interests. Look at Turkey's F-35 & S-400 debacle

4. Gripen also involves a ton of US systems including the engine and would have similar risks stated above and would also end up killing the LCA/MWF projects

5. IMO, go with (2) and now that Su-30's HAL line would be idle unless IAF decides to exercise the additional 40 jets clause, modify it to increase the production of Tejas while fastracking the development of MWF and AMCA

actually what happened on 27th Feb. have forced Indians to turn to SAAB.

No IAF or MoD official ever stated they're interested in Gripen. This is part of the regular tender process and all vendors which participated in the initial MMRCA are participating in the same.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

MMRCA 2.0 is unlikely to happen for obvious reasons
1. IAF top brass's hunger for kickbacks would delay the tender process by 5-10 years and even after that if a jet is finalized, it would take a couple of years for setting up of manufacturing facilities (since 114 jets would definitely involve local production), establishing supply chain etc and by the time we receive our first jet which would be well over a decade, most countries would be phasing out their 4th gen jets

2. There is a possibility IAF might go for additional Rafales (36 more) as the follow on order clause. If IN also opts for Rafale-M for the IAC-3 (54 required), there is a possibility we might negotiate for localized production

3. Procuring American platforms would come with all the strings attached and there is a high possibility for sanctions if we go against their interests. Look at Turkey's F-35 & S-400 debacle

4. Gripen also involves a ton of US systems including the engine and would have similar risks stated above and would also end up killing the LCA/MWF projects

5. IMO, go with (2) and now that Su-30's HAL line would be idle unless IAF decides to exercise the additional 40 jets clause, modify it to increase the production of Tejas while fastracking the development of MWF and AMCA


No IAF or MoD official ever stated they're interested in Gripen. This is part of the regular tender process and all vendors which participated in the initial MMRCA are participating in the same.

The whole MMRCA thing turned out to be a complete waste of time.

 

[Nasr]

Saab basically begging for a contract lolz. Indians would be really stupid to go for gripen after buying rafales.

Correction, indians would not be really stupid in buying Gripens, they already are stupid. They'd get stupider once they've crashed a couple of Rafales and then buy Gripens. Swedes and the French are clever to sell $$ billions of hardware, while stupid indian leadership squanders India's money as 400 million indians live below the poverty line.