Dassault Rafale wins MMRCA !

There was a news in 2009 April..

Dassault Rafale Fails to Meet Indian Air Force MRCA Minimum Performance Requirements

2009-04-16 The French Rafale fighter has been knocked off a $ 10 billion contract to provide 126 combat aircraft for the Indian Air Force. The French fighter, which was one of the six contenders for the race, was officially rejected by the Defence Ministry for failing to meet qualitative requirements for the contract.

The news comes as a bit of a shock as the Indian Air Force has been maintaining that all six contenders – the American F 18 and F 16, the Eurofighter Typhoon, Russian MiG 35, Swedish Gripen NG and the French fighter – had met the technical requirements.

However, a senior defence ministry official made is clear on Thursday that RafalE has been rejected at the technical evaluation stage for failing to meet minimum performance requirements that had been detailed in the tender document. The flight trials for the remaining five fighters are now expected to commence within three months, a senior MoD official said.

"They did not meet the requirements and will not proceed to the next stage. We hope to begin trials within three months with the others that have qualified," a top Defence Ministry official said.

While the French fighter was always considered an underdog in the competition, which has been described as the largest international defence contract in the world, it was been aggressively pushed by the French government. Former President Jacques Chirac and his successor Nichols Sarkozy have been talking about the fighter in all their interactions with India.

Dassault Rafale Fails to Meet Indian Air Force MRCA Minimum Performance Requirements | India Defence

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

*Flash* : Yes, Rafale Wins!! ..Finally!!

Dassault Aviation's Rafale is MMRCA's lowest bidder. Commercial negotiation to begin now, and will take some time before the deal is inked.

Chindits: *Flash* : Yes, Rafale Wins!! ..Finally!!

man look at the activity in shoutbox and the number of people viewing this thread....if this is the activity hear than what kind of activity will be going on in the Raj Bhavan...

Vive la France ! Vive L'Inde !

Rafale is right choice, i am loving it................................................ .......Finally they have decided.

Swamy is tweeting Sonia gandhi got 2billiopn dollar comission on this deal

lowest bidder is French Rafale..commercial negotiations to begin soon, will take almost 5-6 months to ink deal. THE FRENCH FIGHTER HAS EMERGED SOME $5 MILLION PER AIRCRAFT CHEAPER THAN THE EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON

Subrahmanyam Swami said 2 months back that deal for Rafale is already finalised with the help corrupt Maino madam.

Anyway, Good for us. Typhoon may be little better but since UAE & KSA are going to operate Typhoon. So, Pak will get some hand on it. We will have exclusive Rafale + Giftpack if it will be final??

yep, true... time for the next scandal after ISRO deal..

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Dassault Rafale wins the MMRCA deal beating Eurofighter Typhoon
Jan 31, 2012, 05.31PM IST TNN

The Dassault Rafale has won the long-awaited MMRCA deal beating the Eurofighter Typhoon.
NEW DELHI: France's Dassault Rafale wins the $10.4 billion medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) deal. Its bid was said to be 'significantly' lower than the other fighter -- the Eurofighter Typhoon -- designed by a consortium of three companies EADS, Alenia Aeronautica and BAE Systems.

The MMRCA is India's biggest single defence deal which will see India purchasing 126 fighters planes for the Indian Air Force.

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Swamy going to expose maino @ 6 pm Headlines Today, 8pm NDTV, 9pm Times Now and CNN-IBN now.

Looks like he has some documents/points to make

hope swami has got good lawyer, it has not happen yet but he has posted this in website.

Yes TOT & donations for 2014 elections as well.

Um speaking truly, I always voted for Typhoon, but still Rafael is not behind in any case. So I respect this decision and it is a great choice. As Typhoon might take some more extra time than Rafael.

Sorry for Indian forces. They are being puppets between big babu's..

Finally we got something to replace the Migs. Thank god.