UAE : Good by Eurofighter Typhoon ! Welcome Dassault Rafale.

[rockstarIN]

India should look into these mirages, it will be a big boost to falling sqdn numbers... maybe dassault can hook us up

Evan as a part of Rafale deal to sweetening the deal.

More Desert Falcons plus F-15SA standard Eagles seem to be the best choice.

It would mean full inter operateability between GCC military command. With top of the line, vipers and eagles, typhoons, tornados, hornets all able to link up to E3 command air craft.

Rafale is rubbish as it is. It needs upgrades which UAE won't fund. It won't be a wise choice. Though UAE might buy them for they might not want to put all their eggs in uncle sams basket.

I wish that the UAE mirage dash 9's end up in our Naval air command with upgrades, they'd provide a good run for their money to Indian carrier bourne Harriers, and Mig-29s, though chances of that happening are as slim as megan fox's waist.

@asad71 Maybe Bangladesh AF should look into them. ~ 68 upgraded Dash 9's can give you 'instant' air dominance over the Burmese, and a valid deterence against India.

They won't put all the eggs in one US basket for sure.

@sandy_3126

UAE won't sell these dash-9s to India.

There is a chance French might buy back the mirages for the rafale deal as I read somewhere else.

It will not be a direct deal though. And it is not all well in between you two now.

 

[MilSpec]

Dassualt should go for a buy back, india should try to get them from dassault....there must be some end user stuff, that UAE cannot sell these to a third country...

 

[Luftwaffe]

There is a chance French might buy back the mirages for the rafale deal as I read somewhere else.

There is no chance of buy back from U.A.E because Dassault is not even ready for a more powerful engine development on their part and you are talking of dumping these mirages.

Anyway the Thread has served its purpose that Typhoon is out of the race unfortunately, nothing to do with Dassault.

 

[rockstarIN]

There is no chance of buy back from U.A.E because Dassault is not even ready for a more powerful engine development on their part and you are talking of dumping these mirages.

Anyway the Thread has served its purpose that Typhoon is out of the race unfortunately, nothing to do with Dassault.

There may also have been a stumbling block in that the UAE is understood to have demanded that the existing Mirage 2000-9s must be ‘bought back’ by the French either for resale or for use by the French forces at an estimated unit price of €20 million – equivalent to about €1.2 billion for the whole fleet. - See more at: Arabian Aerospace - UAE's Rafale deal is no mirage

Arabian Aerospace - UAE's Rafale deal is no mirage

 

[Luftwaffe]

Arabian Aerospace - UAE's Rafale deal is no mirage

And france is not interested in buying back since it would be a burden, they aren't even interested in developing a more powerful engine for Rafale and asking their potential customers to find it, with such a mentality they are bound to lose.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

Dassualt should go for a buy back, india should try to get them from dassault....there must be some end user stuff, that UAE cannot sell these to a third country...

The UAE will pay the French to scrap them.

Chances that India is getting them is next to zero.

 

[Gabriel92]

Where is my French friend @Gabriel92 I'm sure he's gonna be so happy about that..


No more Typhoon for the UAE Gab!

Good news for us. Poor typhoon

 

[PoKeMon]

The UAE will pay the French to scrap them.

Chances that India is getting them is next to zero.

UAE hates India?

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

UAE hates India?

I never said such thing. But it won't sell the Mirages to India to catch itself on fire with someone else.

 

[PoKeMon]

I never said such thing. But it won't sell the Mirages to India to catch itself on fire with someone else.

Why cant sell them back to dassault which can then sell them to anyone of their choice? Its not like they are providing India something no one else can. Its an old tech fighters.

 

[Abingdonboy]

India should look into these mirages, it will be a big boost to falling sqdn numbers... maybe dassault can hook us up

I don't think it's all that worthwhile for an AF like the IAF to be buying second hand jets these days. And AFAIK the IAF hasn't shown any interest in buying these a/c. The most that may happen is the IAF will get 2-3 trainer M2Ks to replace the crashed birds and these should come as part of the Rafale deal and will most likely be from the FrAF's stocks.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

Why cant sell them back to dassault which can then sell them to anyone of their choice? Its not like they are providing India something no one else can. Its an old tech fighters.

They do want the French to buy-back their Mirages when the DR deal is sealed. However, I think it is safe to say that the UAE can't afford upsetting one country at the expense of another.

 

[PoKeMon]

They do want the French to buy-back their Mirages when the DR deal is sealed. However, I think it is safe to say that the UAE can't afford upsetting one country at the expense of another.

Quite acceptable stance if they value pakistan that more than their own interest.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

Quite acceptable stance if they value pakistan that more than their own interest.

The Mirages buy-back package won't exceed a billion euro, which is nothing to the United Arab Emirates.

 

[sancho]

BAE Chief: Typhoon Sale Talks With UAE Have Ended


BAE Chief Executive Ian King has killed off hopes the company might return to the negotiating table with the United Arab Emirates over the sale of Typhoon jets.
“It’s done, we have no plans to revive it,” he told reporters in London on Wednesday...

...“He appears to be keeping the door open but only in the event the UAE decides it wants to return to the negotiating table,” said Doug Barrie, the senior air analyst at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London...

...The BAE boss said the deal could not be struck within the available budget.

Issues over offsets and technology transfer also were said to have been unresolved at the time the plug was pulled on the deal, industry sources said...

...In an interview with the publication Arabian Aerospace at the Bahrain International Airshow this month, British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said one of the most difficult issues had involved taking UAE Mirage 2000s in part exchange for the Typhoons.

Hammond said the problem had been the “commercial structure of the deal in particular dealing with the Mirage fighter the UAE had.”

The aircraft would have been “bought back” by whoever provides the Emirates with a new fighter.

http://www.defensenews.com/article/...Typhoon-Sale-Talks-UAE-Ended?odyssey=nav|head


Once again shows, that the UAE don't have to replace the M2Ks anytime soon and even if they would want to replace it now, it works only in a buy back deal, which only the French actually can provide and why neither another US fighter, nor the EF is a real contender. It's either Rafale or no new fighter!