Bharat Rakshak

The RAFALE Omnirole Fighter: Pushing Forward on New Air-to-Air Capabilities - 15/10/2012 http://www.dassault-aviation.com/fr/aviation/presse/press-kits/2012/the-rafale-omnirole-fighter-pushing-forward-on-new-air-to-air-capabilities.html?cHash=8328870e9f In October 2012, the RAFALE omnirole fighter ...

U.K., U.S. at Odds Over Saudi Deal LONDON — British efforts to seal a major deal with Saudi Arabia for precision-guided bombs appears to be stalled by U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), according to sources here and in Washington. The deal to sell Paveway IV weapons developed by ...

Mr Teddy must be a defence expert when claiming that EF was sent over Lybia to compensate for the "lack of precision" of Rafale. If he was really unpartial he would know that EF bombing was so inappropriate to this battlefield with 1000lbs bombs that the number of EF decreased from 10 to 4...

It raises the question of 'can we pay for Rafale and in the same time pay for jaguar engines, trainers, M2000, and so on'.
It's a major concern ! And this alone could put down MMRCA...
So MoD is like Switzerland : chose an aircraft first and then wonder if the money will be available.

Rafale 2-seater sacrifices fuel, weight, and a bit of drag also. But operationnal performances are roughly the same as over Lybia we used to see formations of single and 2 seaters Raffys. I think i would have gone for only 2-seaters for the first batch of 18 fly-away a/c, in order to train as max pi...

Question to all - what is this future Indian Navy combat aircraft program? Other than some of us rooting for F-35 for our navy, we've not heard any one else (Admiral, Defense Minister, Babu etc.) talk about it. A RFI (request for information) was made by Indian Navy 1 or 2 years ago, for 40 a/c. M-...

I wonder where the Raffy will be assembeled/ manufactured in India? Amethi? I think it'll be in Bangalore at HAL main aircraft division. Don't forget M88/Kaveri engine at GTRE in Bangalore also. And a larg part of the deal should involve Radar and EW components, as well as IR sensor. I don't know w...

It’s India’s choice - UK can’t tell us which aircraft to buy I found Mr Cameron very selfish : he doesn't care about Indian's choice, about India people! All count for him are the 5,000 UK jobs in the balance (which means 20,000 workers of the 4 nations will be necessary to build the 18 EFT request...

I am very proud that IAF chose the best aircraft, the real multirole one, with accurate A2G and performing A2A, already with AESA and data fusion.
And I am very pleased to see that Dassault offer was the L1, and that it's "only" 12Md$ (1.6 ahead of the proposed 10.4Md$).

It seems that RAF EF pilots have received special orders from HQ not to come too close to French borders and to avoid any contact with AAF Rafale. And a2a exercices between the 2 countries are at a very low level. If true (this statement should be cross-checked), it means they are not confident that...

from 2:00 onward the MFDs on this E3 taking part in "operation red flag" seem able to track 100s of a/c and fired AAMs graphically too, with trailing motion lines to show direction ... I assume this is real and used for red flag. not sure if it needs the ac to carry anything special. http...

In case the price difference is only 2%, it is obvious that the best choice is the aircraft which has already the maximum compliance with mmrca requests. Because you never know how much it'll really cost for development (and always more expensive than planned!). So there's no hesitation: let's go fo...

Just a word about simulated A2A firing. When you train in A2A combat, the participants' trajectories and shoots are stored during flight and gathered at landing to be put together for full debrieffing. So you can check that the simulated shooting of a missile done by fighter A has really reached fig...

About Neuron, There are some web sites speaking of it, one if from Sweden with few pictures. http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/flygplan/article3389951.ece The first flight should take place in late june, and after there will be 2 years of operationnal rcs testing and stealth missions demon...

D-day 24th Jan?? Seen on a rafale's blog : (http://rafalenews.blogspot.com/) Now the rumors of the week : Rumor N°1 : The Rafale package would be L1. What to think about this rumor ? Well, last week, it was supposed to be the Eurofighter, so it's a draw. Rumor N°2 : Eurofighter partners, BAE and EA...

In fact it's around $7 billion, for purchase of 16 C17s, in april (2011)
India became the biggest C17 foreign buyer.

US already won the contrat for C17 : 10Md$, as much as MMRCA but they always want more ! And all the more went it can defeat european aircraft makers.

The JSF is also "the cheapest",while even the USAF cannot predict what the actual cost will be! We just know by now that the 2443a/c required for US (USAF, Navy, Marines, National Guard) will cost 325Md$ to USA only, which values 135M$ each JSF (385Md$ is the full international program fo...

Badar wrote:We might be getting a good piece of kit for quite an ransom, but the underlying feeling I get is that a burst of economic growth gave us a bad case of Ameritosis.

What do you mean by "Ameritosis" ? Do you mean "Amitosis", kind of cellular division with somehow degeneration ?

over engineering beats the crap out of the sdre psyche. i just can't believe that. one can't go by the looks alone.. it might be even a more hollow shaving of the materials or change of materials itself. nevertheless, I doubt we are such poor people on the topic of SoM. You're right : look & fe...

The interesting part is that we have been depending upon ,guess who,.......none other than EADS to "optimise systems and speed up flight test and certification"! Is there a connection wiht LCA developmental delays and the award of the MMRCA? It would be truly ironic if the Raffy wins the ...

Concerning Gripen, its price is lower, but the gripenNG is only paper aircraft, half technology is US made (so no transfer to be awaited), they do not have AESA yet, and SAAB industry may not last many years (they won't produce cars in few months).

So things seem to hurry now. I think that the most important is to know if India is willing to get high technology and to be able to master it for our own LCA to improve and upgrade ourseleves these various aircraft and missiles. If it's the main goal, then i would go for Rafale : -already multirole...

What about the option of mmrca cancellation and instead buying the m2000-9 from UAE if they eventually buy the french Rafale ? HAL could implement m2k standard and IAF would have 111 m2s.
But in that case there wouldn't be the transfer of technology that mmrca could secure.

Is this going to end up like the artillery saga :?: :?: :?: I guess that decision is hard to take, but waiting for it is harder for our nerves ! :evil: If price is far too much expensive, let's cancel it and put the money in extra Paf-Ka fighters or co-development of Tejas weapon system, or Kaveri ...

Sorry for the newbie question: Are Rafale's CFTs more or less plug-and-play or is reconfiguration in the midst of a campaign out of the question? Hi, i am brand new on this VERY interesting forum. As said above, CFTs are "plug-an-play" but for a campaign. It's many hours to plug on the fu...