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    IT IS AN ENGLISH LANGAGE FORUM !!!!!
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    Size doesn't matter (ask your wife !). Quality is the real asset.
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    Dry price of the Rafale (i France, including VAT) : in the 100€ million. Remove the VAT (because no VAT for export) : 80€million. It is said that producting in India (not in HAL...) will be 15 to 20% cheaper : 65€ million nearly. 36 x 65€ million = 2.34€ Md No need to add some more money for...
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    Globally YES. France has made a proposal for 36 more new Rafale F4 (the fastest delivery in case of a 2021 order is for 2024, so fully compliant with F4 standard). And as said by Trappier for years, any next order will see a make in India initiative thanks to the factory built in India (for...
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    Yes, I think so.
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    I need nothing. I just explain that Jaguar has a low combo load & range.
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    The japanese stole the drawings ? what an error....
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    With what range? only a costal defense asset, nothing more.
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    A british idea...... Unused everywhere else. The sole specificity of this average vessel.
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    But you are not a mod. For very good and clever reasons. Bye bye.
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    A turbofan and a jet engine are engines, but not the same kind. SNECMA was producing jet engine for 20 years then.... It remember me what the famous US admiral Rickover said about the french SLBM programm : "they will failed". And we did it. Stop your so classical french bashing please my dear.
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    USSR can rely on Czechoslovakian (Skoda), Ukrainian.... They were skilled in some areas.
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    Why do you want they share the tech? The 50/50 agreement, already in duty, said that the all hot core was to be produce by GE and the cold part by SNECMA. Sure SNECMA can reverse engeneer the US hot core, but it was useless because M53 was already studied, with crystal blades and so one. You...
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    1971.... SNECMA built efficient hot core for yearSSS in 1971. M53 was studied since 1967. First prototyp was bench tested in 1970. So no special need of F101 hot core tech ! I add that it was BECAUSE SNECMA mastered hot core that US govt agree to a 50/50 joint company, because there was...
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    Kaveri was more a 85-90Kn, no?
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    Never underestimate a potential ennemy....
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    baby steps was the politic of Dassault. With the result we all know.
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    I fully agree. But I add something : a country that is able to developp and produce spacecraft and to land a rover on the moon is probably near to be self reliant on jet engine.
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    Indeed. All is not to scrap, but the goal was too high, specially to developp simultaneously the jet (the smaller of its categorie) and the engine.
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    I don't want to use the chinese exemple becaus I know the bad relations between you, but see how many money, how many engineers, how many time they spent to master fighter engine technology. It's not made yet (but I think they are near the graal).
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