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India won't import Gripen under any circumstances, India is already developing its own Desi Gripen in the form of Tejas MK-2 which will form a major part of the Indian fleet in the coming years. Importing Gripen or any single engine fighter would be as good as termination of the LCA programme. I...

What is the aim of the IAF with respect to manufacturing of these jets? Do they want to manufacture them in India and have a maintenance and repair hub in India itself? How many numbers do we need to order in minimum to let the OEM to move the production line of their plane to India? I believe a...

Oh my bad! I had compared the range of both Rafale-M and F/A-18 SH because I was under the impression that we were discussing about IN's carrier aircraft tender, didn't realise that we were talking about MMRCA 2.0 and that this thread is about MMRCA.

No. What @Shuturmurg has written is absolutely correct AFAIK. F/A-18 SH has less range as compared to Rafale-M.

I am not a person who understands much of Sarcasm I guess! (LOL) In terms of carrier based fighter aircrafts, the Indian Navy should select F/A-18 SH in my opinion, Rafale is good but SH is better in terms of Capabilities AFAIK.

I don't think so that he wrote that in sarcasm!

F/A-18 and Rafale M are far better than the MiG-29K in terms of technical Capabilities and Technology, also they have better maintenance as compared to the MiG-29K so no MiG-29K sorry.

For Indian Airforce's MMRCA Tender, Dassault Rafale (F4 standards) is the best option and on the other hand, for Indian Navy's Carrier Borne Aircraft requirement, F/A-18 is the best.

Do you have any source to prove that SU-35 will have a license/ownership cost which will be more than 3x that of the Dassault Rafale? This statement of yours is hard to believe. And lastly the SU-57 is far more advanced than the Rafale, Sure Russian Weopons are more expensive in terms of...

Do you know what is the price at which Rafale and SU-35 are being Respectively offered? I heard Somewhere on the internet that SU-35 costs less than half of Rafale.

As much as I don't like IAF's procurement process, I would disagree with you, MMRCA 2.0 is a need, Tejas MK-2 and AMCA will start their production only after 2028, for the mean time, we still need a good number of jets to act as a stop gap until Tejas MK-2, AMCA start their induction.

Will any vendor in MMRCA be willing to give TOT for only 57 jets? It seems highly unlikely from my POV. If the deal has indeed been cut to 57 and if we buy any jet now, than we will have to buy them in "Fly-away" condition, Transfer of Technology is not happening at this point.

In light of the recent reports which Suggest/Claim that the Indian Airforce has cut it's Requirement of 114 jets to 57, well please don't take all of these reports at face value right now, unless and until we get Official confirmation from the IAF or current air chief Marshal, please don't...

New Circus from the IAF's side! If this is true than now IAF will have no other choice but to give an order for additional Rafales and finish this whole MMRCA 2.0 drama. That's it, now IAF will have to procure additional Tejas MK-2 in compensation for the number of Aircrafts cut down in MMRCA.

This MRFA Tender was first issued back in April 2018 for 114 jets. It's been more than 4 years since MRFA Tender was initiated and till date we are only hearing these kind of news like "MRFA will Happen"/"MRFA will involve Complete transfer of Technology"/"MRFA is absolute necessity" and Blah...

If India hypothetically selects SU-35 under MMRCA tender than I am pretty confident that we will build them in India in our SU-30 MKI Production lines (ofcource we will need to modify the line accordingly to build the Jets). I would say that SU-35 probably has the 3th best chance in this tender...

We need to do a comparison between Super Sukhoi Upgrade and Rafale and also check their cost. Always the Possibility remains that IAF might order additional SU-30 MKI but all of these additional SU-30 MKI would be of super Sukhoi Upgrade standard. [We will discuss this in the SU-30 MKI thread]...

If MMRCA is for European Origin Jets than the best and most sensible option is Dassault Rafale! Than Indian airforce should go for it. We should not go for any American jet like F-16 ,F-15 etc. All American Weopons tend to come with lots of terms and conditions which limits their usage so please...

I think so that IAF was planning to Induct additional SU-30 MKIs, Around 90 More SU-30 MKIs. This news was Indicated by a person Called Saurav Jha in one of his sessions on YouTube (I have not personally seen it and neither do I have the link). Maybe We could definitely procure Additional 90...

Russia's Sukhoi is offering us SU-35 and Mikoyan is offering us MiG-35, the problem with SU-35 is that it lacks an AESA Radar and IAF preferably wants an Aircraft under MMRCA with AESA Radar in it. Sorry if this is a stupid question but Is it theoretically Possible to Integrate our own UTTAM...