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We don't know what is included in that offer? Any Indian order will mean money for base infrastructure and weapons will be included. Besides manufacturing in India will double the cost of rafale since all tools will have to be duplicated in India. Only assembly might take place .

The only silver lining is we are moving forward in indigenous direction. From lone struggling on the verge of cancellation lca projet 10 years ago today we have mk1a contract signed , MWF near metal cutting with design finalized , amca tedbf in detailed design phase. IN next 10 years we...

Ya but they don't have many hardened shelter and on open ground their plane will be destroyed even in hotan 400km away. About bombers as hvt said they won't survive . Only stealth bomber can challange iaf. Rest I agree with.

Took a relook at numbers as available open source. Wikipedia says we have 622 fighter jets ( including training varients of mig21 and jaguar). ((272 su30mki + 65 mig29 + 49 mirage + 4 rafale +18 lca + 91 jags + 39 jag trainers + 54 mig21 + 30 mig21 trainers )) Which means 34.5 sq are active ...

Only immediate machines are those we are already building means su30 mki and lca mk1. We can double their production if required. Any foreign machine won't come immediately.

Don't see it happening. 1. Mig35 is not mature. It's aesa is not ready and rd33 engine are maintainance prone. Also airframe life is a decade less than Western jets. 2. Mig35 is as big as rafale in size but payload and range are comparable to mwf only. So it's a competition for mwf just like...

French offered the f3r version as it was already in development and french were confident that both aesa and meteor would be ready before delivery. The question is what version of rafale was evaluated and what was it equipped with?

Gripen E/F can perform 80% of rafale missions with meteor. Rafale can still lift more load and Spectra is in different league than any other ew suite . Yet not all mission require that level of capabilities. Mwf can too do most of the jobs of rafale just as efficiently. Rafale will Trump it in...

Mwf will have almost same range as rafale. Mwf will carry 3300kg fuel internally for single f414. While rafale caries 4500kg internally for two m88 . ( 2200kg for each m88 to burn). Adjusted for other factors both should have same range. Rafale has more payload than mwf but most strike...

Nope that's not how it works . Even today mirage and mig29 are considered in same class. Mirage has better range and payload while mig29 has better twr and is much more agile. But both are considered in same class . Mwf will replace both of them.

Utter lies . According to Pakistan itself they never crossed loc anytime they didn't had the guts of capabilities. The only airforce which crossed loc on both days and flew over enemy airspace was IAF and only IAF. On26th mirage and su30 were 80km inside Pakistan And on 27 mig21 was chasing...

Mig29 or mig35 are not comparable to rafale. They are in mwf class range and payload wise. Mwf will replace mig29 upg. Mwf payload is 6500kg compared to 5500 kg for mig35/ 29upg. Range is also similar.

Mmrca is dead for all intent and purpose. More rafale will be ordered directly as per requirement in the future. Rest will be made up by mk1a and mwf. So this thread has run out of utility now. Time to shut it down. Other discussion can happen on mwf and rafale thread.

Astra mk1 range is 110+ km as advertised. It has hit targets at 90km range in already declassified test. Actual range could be much better. Someone from IAF has said it's far better than aim120c5/c7 . I don't recall who that was but it should be somewhere on this forum.

Third carrier is not being debated. It's size being questioned. Navy wants 65k ton behemoth with emals and rafale/f18 as airwing . Defmin is pushing for 40k vikrant sister ship with catobar and modest airwing probably with tedbf .

China has halted their carrier planes for now. Even USA is looking to retire two carriers early and to go for distributed lethality . Hypersonic missile are real threat now to large carriers and there is no realistic defense against them as of now. Us navy studies have shown that even a...

Astra mk1 itself outranges paki f16 aim120c5/c7. And it's already integrated with su30 . So game has already changed. Astra mk2 dusl pulse is supposed to undergo testing this year itself. It will use same dual motor already used on ngram. Should be ready in 2 years. Lca mk1a will get derby...

Su30 did detect those missiles . It was instructed by ground station because that's how networked warfare works. If there was no ground instructions su30 would act on their own. Either manuver or jamm the incoming missile. Regarding rafale and IAF statement. Rafale with meteor would have not...

H v thakur (ex IAF pilot) said that maws is more useful against ground launched surface to air missiles . That's why helicopter have them at priority. Also low flying jets need them more. Su30 has Indian made 6 channels rwr. It's now being turned digital .even lca has it so does mig29 ...

We could buy more rafales later I'm not denying that. It's just too costly. And right now there is no money to import when record number of indians are struggling in unemployment .