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Wrong market, it has far more range and efficiency than that museum piece. It is in-between that and a 787 but at far cheaper prices and fuel burn per seat. It is tapping an entirely new segment for budget airlines to expand their offerings.

The A321XLR is a new market created by Airbus. It allows budget airlines to open long distance routes that compete with bigger airlines with bigger more expensive planes and to do so more affordably.

I believe Airbus has already beat them to it with the A321XLR which is dominating sales.

The Dubai Airshow has been good to France, 290 orders for Airbus by Day 2, only 12 for Boeing. :hippo:

Over 5000 Mica missiles have been produced, of which 3500 were exports. If it was so bad it wouldn't be so widely used. IAF just ordered 500 of them, are you calling them out?

It is HAL that is taking the shit and instead of picking them up we have to throw it right back at them. Regarding the offered HAL upgrade of Hawk trainers... It is the same thing they have done to Su-30 and M2000, I don't know how much more evidence you need that HAL overcharges.

French goods are quality, you get what you pay for. It is always Mirage at the tip of the spear because IAF knows what they rely on in times of crisis.

The profit is paid out to the shareholders, some of that is government and some not. Their goal is to turn a profit but the culture they are still living in is one of not caring about profit because they are still living off of government guaranteed orders with no oversight. This is the...

When HAL charges a client they do so at market rates. They aren't passing the cost savings of their low paid workers on to that client. They are a publicly traded company, their job isn't to hand out welfare prices to clients, just a fair market price. That price is fair for billable hours...

Uhhh... no I didn't. Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Do you know how cheap a MiG-29 upgrade is for the VVS? Apparently not... It is actually clear that HAL made it a sham. I just looked at the price of what RAF Hawk trainers cost and what HAL charges for it. The trends are...

You can't compare Tejas to anything else because HAL is the only one that makes it. If you have other projects they work on that are also offered by foreign OEMs to do a cost analysis I am open to the evidence. Looking at Su-30 and M2000 prices it is clear to me that HAL has a serious...

DARIN III wasn't even a thing 15+ years back... anyways. It is all about HAL because they are the ones doubling the cost of the upgrades.

Those OEM companies haven't made those parts in 15 years, there was no discussions with them to upgrade anything. HAL was always in full control, there was nothing to turn back on. Why would we bother comparing something that HAL doesn't make to offer as a comparison to something else? To...

??? I'm afraid not... Mais le périmètre technique comprend aussi l’adjonction d’un radar de pointe RDY3, issu du RC400 vendu à l’export par Thales. Cet ensemble radar-missile permettrait à l’avion de pouvoir opérer seul, sans protection aérienne sur un territoire basse intensité (Sahel...

The DARIN upgrades were never tendered out for competition. HAL was the only one who was ever going to do it so there is no price quote to compare. The whole point of it was to get as much indigenous content as possible. The last report I read was that Honeywell was the only one that had a...

The life of the jet is 25 years, when you extend it to 40 a new radar set is required. Radar performance degrades over use, when it hits 20% degradation the entire set is pulled. HAL charges an enormous amount for the same work. One only needs to look at the price difference between a...

They just wrote off $10 billion in losses over the MAX debacle and still counting every day it is grounded, they can't afford losses on profitable sectors of the market.

Radars don't last forever, they get replaced during the MLU.

Because the work was done at HAL which charges more than twice as many man hours as Dassault for the same job. Not to mention Indian taxes vs tax free French state orders.

We paid less than $1 billion to upgrade 55, do the math.