Bharat Rakshak

The Rafale production is down to single digits per year at the moment from 11 in 2014 iirc. No, in 2015 Dassault produced 11 Rafale as usual but delivered only 8 (5 for France, 3 for Egypt). As per the contractual agreement with Egypt the last 3 Rafale were delivered yesterday. The biggest thing wi...

France sells 24 Rafale to Qatar for $7 billion US to sell 28 SH to Kuwait for $3+ billion This is probably the closest we can come to an equal comparison of costs. No, because the Qatari Rafale contract also includes the biggest contract that the European missile manufacturer MBDA has ever received...

*India is good enough to produce the F2 and was not for the F3 (which comes out in 2018). * Dassault tried to sell the F3. The cost of F3 could not have been L1 *France tried to get India to pay (or share) for the upgrades (to F3) Now that the F2 will be bought You are badly informed about the Rafa...

Some people in this forum always seem more interested in speculation and FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) about MMRCA and Dassault Rafale than in facts. So, I will just say that the development of standard F3-R is already funded and launched : http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140110/DEFREG01/30110...

Why is the Rafale carrying less than 2000kg of bombs supposed to be so impressive, the MKI demoed about three times as much in IronFist. Each AASM 250 weighs 340kg, so 6 AASM 250 represent 2040kg of bombs. the AASMs are very expensive. we need to fund and accelerate to completion not just the basic...

Rafale can easily take care of old aircraft like F-16 : http://youtu.be/2dAmEL6fhmg But Typhoon struggles against this outdated plane : http://youtu.be/RAedQ7FMiKo And this is not an isolated incident as Pakistani F-16s easily and soundly defeated RAF Eurofighter Typhoons during exercise Anatolian E...

At least for EF, there are several nations, one of which (Germany or UK hopefully) which would continue funding its development. This will not happen, the German government just announced Eurofighter orders will be cut. http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id...

The same article says the Eurofighter is the favourite in the Indian MMRCA race. Ahh... sweet irony. :wink: The journalist himself qualifies this particular information as rumors and doesn't give a source. Besides, India is going through an intense anti-corruption campaign whereas it has been revea...

Pop Quiz 2: What country c) Was bullied into handing over the disabling codes of weapons they had sold to another country? The source which claims France gave the Exocet missile code to Britain is dubious and reality doesn't corroborate this misinformation. If this was true, the Exocet missiles sho...