Bharat Rakshak

The BJP leader said the decision to acquire aircraft — there was need for 226 and it was brought down to 124 — has not yet been implemented.

The guy wants to follow his illustrious colleauge from the state MS Renuka Chowdhary and sink the aircraft deal.

There is an article in French magazine "Capital" about Rafale deal. Good article on capabilities of Rafale and Indian decision to buy the plane. Then author asks whether HAL has capabilities to manufacture the plane,citing the fact that HAL is yet to manufacture SU-30 MKI. Deal to manufacture SU-30 was signed in 2000. French are thinking that there are chances that all of the planes are going to be manufactured in France.

Allegations of irregularities in the Indian Air Force's (IAF) deal for 126 fighter aircraft are likely to delay, not derail the $18 billion (Rs 90,000 crore) deal. Defence Minister A.K. Antony ordered a departmental probe into his ministry's January 31 decision to shortlist French firm Dassault to supply the aircraft. Antony's move came soon after doubts were raised about the evaluation process by an MP.

In January, India announced that Dassault had emerged as the lowest bidder for the contract to supply 126 Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA). The Dassault Rafale multi-role combat jet edged out its closest competitor, the Eurofighter Typhoon, to emerge the cheapest bidder in the world's largest open tender defence contract. On February 27, Telugu Desam Party's Rajya Sabha MP M.V. Mysura Reddy wrote to Antony alleging deviations in procedure. Officials involved in negotiations say the probe will delay the deal by only a "month or two". Ministry of Defence (MoD) expects the deal to be signed before March 31, 2013.

In February, MoD-appointed Contract Negotiations Committee (CNC), comprising the defence ministry's stakeholders, opened negotiations with Dassault. The final proposal will be put before the Cabinet Committee on Security early next year. "The formula for calculating the cheapest aircraft was re-totalled three times, by MoD and IAF," an official told India Today. The controversy arose because mod used 'life cycle costs' to select its finalist. As per this formula, the cheapest aircraft would not be the one with the lowest upfront cost. It would be the aircraft that worked out to be the cheapest over the aircraft's 30-year life cycle. The formula took into account variables like maintenance and engine replacement.

Sources say the Rafale aircraft was $5 million (Rs 250 crore) cheaper than the Typhoon. Losing finalists like the European Consortium found fault with the formula even as European diplomats made fresh proposals to lower the rates of the Typhoon. MoD, however, signalled that the door was shut as it began CNC with Dassault in February. Reddy's letter to Antony has, however, added a twist to the tale.

Neuilly-sur-Seine – In February, Thales delivered the first series-produced RBE2 radar with active electronically scanned array (AESA) to the Dassault Aviation facility in Mérignac, France. The radar will now be installed on Rafale C137, the first Rafale with this new capability, which is scheduled for delivery to the French defence procurement agency (DGA) this summer. A comprehensive three-month flight test programme conducted with the first production RBE2 AESA radar at the Istres air base demonstrated the qualities of the radar and confirmed the expected levels of performance prior to delivery to Dassault Aviation.

The RBE2 AESA radar was delivered in line with the contract schedule, demonstrating the new radar’s technological maturity and further consolidating Thales’s European leadership in radars for combat aircraft.

The RBE2 AESA will give the Rafale a number of key advantages:
Extended range for full compatibility with the latest-generation long-range missiles, such as the Meteor, combined with the ability to detect low-observable targets
Higher reliability for reduced cost of ownership (no major maintenance is required on the active array for 10 years)
Waveform agility for high-resolution synthetic aperture (SAR) imagery and increased resistance to jamming

The Rafale will be the only European combat aircraft under full-scale production with an active-array radar. The operational superiority of this omnirole combat aircraft, which was demonstrated most recently during Operation Harmattan in Libya, is now further assured for the full spectrum of French Air Force and Navy missions relying on the new technology.

is Thales providing anything for the Captor-E radar or its entirely owned by Marconi (UK) + SelexGalileo (Italy) ? is raytheon or northrop-grumann in anyway involved in the Captor-E?

Missions of United Monolithic Semiconductors

- To offer independent state-of-the-art "ITAR free" MMICs and foundry services to the world-wide market

- To be a global provider of MMICs solutions for Communication, Radar, Electronic Warfare and RF Systems

Does he think that Typhoon which was not originally designed for ground attack role could do a better job than Rafale that was right from the beginning designed for ground attack as well as air superiority role? By design, it could perform both of those tasks simultaneously.

eurofighter pavillion: by far the biggest. cassidian and the consortium still have high hopes.its good to be optimistic. apart from a model of armed eurofighter and a poster of eurojet the stand also featured the newest WFoR CAPTOR-E radar. i counted the number of t/r modules .it was around 920 approx much lesser than 1423 as earlier thought and in the same number category as RBE-2AA WHICH HAS 850-869 MODULES.

There is an evaluation committee which is involved in these matters. The committee comprises six persons and there are persons from the armed forces and also the finance wing. My information suggests that two persons in this committee have allegedly manipulated this deal,’ MV Mysura Reddy, member of the parliamentary defence standing committee, tells Vicky Nanjappa

Being ITAR free has little impact, the fact is UMS has a major design center in the US and so does Thales. Critical tech related to both SPECTRA and other EU made electronics have all been developed in the US. They only are manufactured in the EU in order to make them ITAR free, the knowledge itself comes from US. ITAR is easy to avoid.

A lot of the technology for Thales and other EADS has roots in the US, manufacturing is shifted elsewhere to avoid ITAR. Besides Dassault has already obtained clearances from Unkil in order to provide TOT on the Rafale.

Earlier at the time of Bofors Procurement one of our minister(I think environment Minister) raised some allegation on the quality of the guns, even this minister suggested another company as comparative better quality. Now this reddy is trying to do the same thing with MMRCA deal.

Being ITAR free has little impact, the fact is UMS has a major design center in the US and so does Thales. Critical tech related to both SPECTRA and other EU made electronics have all been developed in the US. They only are manufactured in the EU in order to make them ITAR free, the knowledge itself comes from US. ITAR is easy to avoid.

A lot of the technology for Thales and other EADS has roots in the US, manufacturing is shifted elsewhere to avoid ITAR. Besides Dassault has already obtained clearances from Unkil in order to provide TOT on the Rafale.

United Monolithic Semiconductors was created in 1996, as a joint venture of Thales and EADS, to provide a European source of III-V technologies and products.

The Company has industrial facilities in Ulm, Germany and Villebon / Yvette, France (headquarters), and sales offices in Lowel, MA USA and Shanghaï, China.

http://www.airframer.com/aircraft_detail.html?model=Dassault_Rafale

ahah a joke, significant input into Thales comes from Thales Raytheon where Raytheon has pumped in a huge amounts of techno input.

As a forward-thinking, dynamic company, TRS offers numerous career opportunities in the United States, France and internationally. Eighty percent of the company's employees are top-level engineers who benefit from decades of experience. Our employee base of 1,600 is equally split between France and the USA.

UMS has design facilities in the US.

Spectra was developed entirely in Thales US.

Thales and Dassault particularly are known for bundling US tech and claim it to be "ITAR free".

There is an evaluation committee which is involved in these matters. The committee comprises six persons and there are persons from the armed forces and also the finance wing. My information suggests that two persons in this committee have allegedly manipulated this deal,’ MV Mysura Reddy, member of the parliamentary defence standing committee, tells Vicky Nanjappa

Earlier at the time of Bofors Procurement one of our minister(I think environment Minister) raised some allegation on the quality of the guns, even this minister suggested another company as comparative better quality. Now this reddy is trying to do the same thing with MMRCA deal.

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Not true at all. Spectra is entirely developped at Elancourt close to Paris/Versailles and build Elancourt and Pessac near Bordeaux.
Having my entries at Thales and Dassault I can confirm that the US have zero input in spectra and the RBE2 be it development or manufacturing.

Thales Raytheon System is a equal JV between Thales and Raytheon in the sense that workforce is equally divided.

http://www.thalesraytheon.com/en/about- ... mpany.html


Oh really so there is nothing from Thales here, its predominantly Raytheon? Or you mean Thales is student and Raytheon giver/teacher? Either way can you explicitly state your reasons with evidence?





Evidence ?



Evidence ? As far as I have read its developed by Thales and MBDA




Evidence ?

Ah, so we now have Septimus P back in the fray, after serving out his ban, but basically singing the same old song. Or the same old refrain.

Now that his favourite pony, the EF, is out of the fray, Shri Septimus P is going after the Rafale in every which way, as the people from the other side of the Atlantic would say.

He is now plugging the line that the Rafale has such a high level of U.S. components that it would need Uncle Sam's clearance under the ITAR regime.

Really, how desperate can one get ? Clutching at straws does not quite describe what he is trying to do.

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