Dassault Rafale wins MMRCA !

JAISWAL · 31-01-12, 06:05 PM

News on Times Now......
Price difference more than rs. 10000 crore...
That means Rafale quoted price which in total cheaper by more than US $ 2 billion

sayareakd · 31-01-12, 06:06 PM

rock127 · 31-01-12, 06:07 PM

old but a worthy news about Rafale selection.
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Indian Politician Says Sonia Gandhi Has Rigged M-MRCA Deal for Rafale
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Livefist: Indian Politician Says Sonia Gandhi Has Rigged M-MRCA Deal for Rafale
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If the Indian M-MRCA fighter competition wasn't quite surreal enough, in comes an Indian politician-economist, notably re-energized by his
current association with India's "anti-corruption" movement and India's monumental telecom scam investigation, to stir the pot some more. A known fire-bomber with an unabashed antipathy to India's ruling Congress party, Subramanian Swamy has now apparently trained his ire at the IAF's $12-billion M-MRCA fighter deal. Swamy, officially leader of the Janata Party, but best known for years as a voluble and dogged government baiter on all matters graft, says he has written to Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh making some very dramatic allegations. The letter (full text in image above) was written on April 29, two days after the dramatic M-MRCA elimination. Like all his letters, this one says that it draws on "inside information" from within the government. Let's get to the contents:
Swamy writes: "My sources indicate that the pre-determined decision to favour the French aircraft [Dassault's Rafale] was the outcome of several conversations between the wife of French President Ms. Carla Bruni and the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council Ms. Sonia Gandhi, and surprisingly also with two foreign nationals who are the sisters of Ms. Sonia Gandhi." It is not clear what information Swamy has based his allegations on.At the very least, it should be said that Subramanian Swamy was once quite aptly described by a leading news weekly as "the Professor Moriarty to Sonia's Sherlock Holmes", so there shouldn't be any real surprise that the
target of his letter is specifically the Congress Party president. That said, the allegations he makes are indubitably explosive. Swamy's letter
refers to "credible information" in his possession, but says nothing about what this credible information is. It is not clear if he has shared any
further information with the Prime Minister apart from this letter. The operative part of his letter goes: "Based on some credible information given to me on the conversation between Ms. Carla Bruni and Ms Sonia Gandhi’s sisters, there has been an agreement of the French to pay a hefty bribe for favouring the purchase of French aircrafts." Interestingly, a popular Indian military commentator has made a slightly backhanded allusion to pretty much the same thing today. In this column published in today's Pioneer, Maj Gen (Retd) Ashok Mehta writes, "The IAF favours the Rafale not the least because the French are promising the moon. There is also a high level back channel Italian connection, they say." So either the columnist has read Subramanian Swamy's letter, or has his own "insiders", in
which case, as you've no doubt guessed, we have two prominent Indian figures saying that the Rafale has already been chosen to win the M- MRCA competition, and that it took a high-level government connection -- Swamy names Sonia Gandhi, the Maj Gen her nationality -- to work it through.It should be reiterated that neither of these controversial assertions has been backed in substance -- at least as far as I know -- in either the letter or the column. We'll have to see where this goes.

JAISWAL ↑

So after Bofors Scam is MMRCA another latest MASSIVE scam by the govt???

warriorextreme · 31-01-12, 06:08 PM

yahi hain right choice baby..ahaa..

JAYRAM · 31-01-12, 06:08 PM

it has a radar of limited range for air-to-air combat--only 140 km , which is less than the range of the pakistani F-16's radar ( 200km )

Overall less capable in air-to-air combat than Typhoon .

warriorextreme · 31-01-12, 06:09 PM

double post

utubekhiladi · 31-01-12, 06:09 PM

i told you long before, french lobby has won the mmrca deal

JAISWAL · 31-01-12, 06:09 PM

Param · 31-01-12, 06:10 PM

Beauty meets Braun.

utubekhiladi · 31-01-12, 06:10 PM

now i am expecting a rant from ajay sukhla

sayareakd · 31-01-12, 06:13 PM

now coming to south India.

H.A. · 31-01-12, 06:13 PM

I know what Dassault guys must be thinking...they must be thinking sala kuch zyada quote kiya hota to acha hota.

It always happens with me.....

anoop_mig25 · 31-01-12, 06:13 PM

301 users (31+207) browsing this thread , thats why site is too sloww

nitesh · 31-01-12, 06:13 PM

So L1 is decided now, is the time for hectic negotiations to start, if Dassault does something stupid, then the tables can be turned towards EF again. More or less we are going to see Rafale in Indian colors.

Armand should give us all a party.

I seriously hope Kaveri Snecma deal also goes through, so we can get an engine too which can be made common between Rafale and LCA. Sure shot way to catapult the engine manufacturing industry in India.

We need to see the weapons package too it comes with. That will be the crucial factor.

JAYRAM · 31-01-12, 06:14 PM

No, Another MMRCA is coming for 80 jets..

France's Dassault Rafale wins IAF's biggest fighter jet deal - Indian Express

Dassault Rafale wins MMRCA !

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