1.there are many news articles on web stating that rafale actually test fired meteor.. and the point is if it cant do that , it lost to EFT in major way and india wouldnt have ordered it knowing that BVR encounters will be future of warfare.. ideally AESA should have a range almost few km more than it BVR missile range.. The more the distance between aircraft and target the less the kill ratio.. and use some math to figure out the maximum distance that needed for a BVR launch..
Same applies to tejas mk-2. IAF knows like it did for rafale , tejas mk-1 and mk-2 cn fire any missile it specified for tejas. R-73 firing is an example.
Say in a decade from now a BVR missile gets produced which has just a few Km more range than the very low capacity ASEA on rafale, what will you do? Reject it?
How did you determine that "ideally" Asea should have just a few Km more radar range than missile range? Do you think typhoon guys are foolish to mount a massive asea for better situational awarenesss.
2. How many aircrafts participated in MMRCA deal?? And do u know any source that tells rafale failed in leh tests?? and you are sure that all five aircrafts performed well in hot conditions right??
That brings us to the hard facts session my friend. All platforms have issues. We should decide what is the best cost effective solution to our needs which will enhance our total fighting capability. here the tejas mk-2 is a much better choice than rafale especially for IAF which was very closely involved in the developmentl trials of both tejas mk-1 and mk-2, with hot trials in rajasthan, cold trials in leh, hot sea level trials in Goa . And all test pilots of tejas are from IAF. One test pilot suneet krishna has said tejas mk-1 itself is equal to the 40 million dollar plus piece upgrade mirage-2000. he has flown mirage-2000 also,
3. yeah comparision between rafale and tejas sounds some what like that.. tejas will enter into service almost 20 yrs after rafale.. it more like you are comparing a old aircraft (which is of 20 yrs old in service with a fresher
) sounds odd and crazy right??
compare it strictly on the cost benefit vs capacity addition basis . Nothing else counts.
4.MMRCA deal supposed to closed around 5-6 yrs back.. That time no one knows whether tejas mk-1 will get IOC or not.. And you expcect Defence minitsry to trust in some foreign vendor (who also participated in MMRCA deal) to upgrade mk-1 to rafale standard???They could have done the same thing with gripen and set it as competitor to rafale right??
Right. But now tejas is finished. SO there is no need for 126 rafales. You should probably know that the original need for MMRCA was the request from IAF to buy 126 mirage-2000. Now with mk-1 itself going past the upgraded mirage-2000 where is the need for MMRCA? 272 su-30 MKis are enough for deep strike and air dominance . We can find a very productive use fo 20 billion to add some real caapcity to IAf fleet.
5.And u know waht?? we design flights as per requirements.. "I need top speed of 1.6 a spec by IAF and the moment we achieve that end of story.. even we can achieve higher with very lil modififcations without effecting any other parameters, our research labs never do that.. that's why our research is in such a bad condition..
Which research lab in france did anything to add more to rafale speed, which is mach 1.8? Our research labs have continually upgradd the avionics of tejas , added in flight refueling probe, did IAF request for bulkier more launch stress inducing R-73 in place of older R-60 initially specified by IAF. What else you want them to do even before finishing tejas development.
Who did all the improvement for jag and mig fleet? russians or french? It is he DRDO labs that did it.
6. on top of that , no real feedback came from IAF on tejas who finally has to operate the aircraft.. and guess how much time it will take if we have to update tejas again according to real time feedback??
Without feed back , Do you think they are fools to order 124 plus?
7. And bigger radars are equally dangerous as they will announce themselves with greater power.. "hey you.. I m over here.. Please fire a BVR" ...
having an optimum radar is required.. not a bigger radar..
It is the marketing ploy used by french to hide their smaller radar handicap. Please google the fighter radar range of all new fighters and find out the truth for yourself.
being detected at four times the radar range of a bigger radar applies equally for rafale.Deep in enemy territory bad situational awareness can be an unacceptable handicap for any fighter fleet.
It is not that dassault alone found the gospel of truth by shining the torch only as far as your eye can see. better situational awareness is the name of the new sensor game in airwarfare or any warfare.
8. rafale come with lot number of sensors systems (bets of them spectra EW and FSO) .. go though some dassault documents.. and please tell me comparable ones in Tejas..