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Let’s move to a new MMRCA 2.0 thread and have extra fruitful discussion for 5-7 years o_O

+ 1000 about the joint Navy /Air Force tender. That is also the only way to restore some kind of apparent sanity / logical thinking after such a U-turn. Not convinced at all that there is any geopolitical advantage for India to get so close from US. It will only push China and Russia to...

Rafale, Gripen, Typhoon, were never meant to counter true 5 th generation fighters for the good reason that the only one in service anywhere in the world was the F-22. They were supposed to deal with the Su 30- 35 family and other 4 th generation jets. No need to panic about J-20 yet. It is...

Journalists in the defence field have to meet arms dealers all the time for professional reasons. A man is inocent before proven guilty .

I have been following Shiv Aroor and Ajai Shukla for several years now. Both are very enjoyable to read. I don’t remember any of them being negative about Tejas development or Tejas induction, on the contrary ! But prove me wrong .

Wow ! I almost fell from my armchair. Then I noticed the date . Hahaha nice one. :rofl:

All I can say again and again is that adding Rafale in lesser numbers than Gripens would bring same operational capabilities for IAF without complicating logistics. But it seems only broken countries in the West see benefits in operating a minimal number of jet types :-)

Every shield is meant to be defeated providing you have the right SIGINT. Rafale in low-low-low mode can certainly pierce through S-400 shield thanks to its Spectra EW suit. You need to have more faith in your friends from the West and trust a little less your friends from the Artic... Now I...

Plans for defending skies of a country just don't work like that :-) You can expect the main assets of IAF being fairly distributed to match various threats from Pakistan, China and even a third player like Burma . When you look at numbers, PLAAF is rising faster than IAF and it is worrying...

Since when those 36 Rafale jets were supposed to defeat the entire PLAAF ? You have more than 200 frontline Su-30 MKI for this task already. If 36 is the final number, then IAF is thinking of a specialized role for them. But my intuition tells me that the IAF is hell bent on getting more...

Gripen looks awesome and the Swedes videos are awesomely cool to watch :-) But in the end 2 Rafale = 3 Gripen Rafale will carry more AAM, more AGM , and strike deeper than Gripen no matter how you look at it. And then again adding another type to IAF inventory is adding another animal in...

Two thing beats me. First thing : MMRCA trials put Eurofighter and Rafale ahead of F16 and Gripen in terms of performance. Now MoD considers a new competition between two inferior solutions for IAF. Why not stick with original MMRCA plan or at least an 80-90 Rafale force ? Second thing ...