What is Predator-B used for? Is it used for Combat or only for Surveillance?
I feel united nation armed forces can't think what to import or what not to
whatever, navy should go with its procurement of this drone, but babus,goi are doing their ususal shiet
Babus shitting gernails shitting and entire ecosystem stinking
I heard some chatter wrt CAATSA. Maybe related to that.
navy Heron bhi use karti hain aise maine padha tha kahi
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Tejas Mk2 isn't delayed
Sensor suite especially the SAR in Predator is much advanced. Being so Heron TP fulfills our requirement.
Fly away cost is less, but f18sh is a new addition and iaf need to train human resources, need spares and ammunitions etc its overall cost will be similar to ef or grater than rafale.
unfortunately India not in nato or allay like pakistan to usa and india buys large share of war fighting weapons from russia and israel.I don't know the price details of F-15EX offer to Indonesia. However, here is the USN acquisition costs for F-18 E/F:
"14 F-18 in 2018 for $1.25 billion , 23 in 2019 for $1.95 billion, 14 in 2020 for $1.35 billion and 14 in 2021 for $1.27 billion and 15 in 2022 for $1.28 billion." USN is paying $80-$85 million per new Hornet.
Navy Wants to Spend $7.1B on 80 More Super Hornets Over the Next Five Years
The Navy intends to buy at least 80 more Boeing F/A-18E-F Super Hornets over the next five years to address its fighter shortfall, a change from its previous on-the-books plan to zero out the aircraft program beginning next year, the service said in congressional testimony today.news.usni.org
As you can see these costs do not include facilities, training, weapons or sustainment costs. No fighter jet can be assessed with only a sticker price without factoring in other costs. The other costs could be one time (training, infrastructure, modifications) or per flight hour costs that is total operating & support costs divided by total flight hours.
To get most realistic projection, Acquisition costs plus Cost per flying hour (CPFH) should be added. Note that cost of Gripen-NG variants is significantly higher.
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As you can see the acquisition and operating costs of F-18 are excellent. Now let's move to weapons package.
All US weapons are NATO compatible that means, any NATO aircraft can (after integration and qualification testing) use these weapons. Due to its widespread use in Europe, all F series fighters have been integrated with European weapons however, same cannot be said about Euro-Canards. (For example, F-35 is undergoing integration with Meteor and NSM right now) but Rafale/Mirage cannot use JDAM.
Except Gripen and now Eurofighter, few spend R&D money to use US made arsenal. French aircraft are probably the least integrated of all. The result is exorbitant costs for buying nation in form of expensive French weapons or paying extra for integration of incompatible weapons. That was one of the reason for India to ask Dassault to integrate Litening/Spice with Rafale because Sagem AASM costs $300,000 per unit compared to around $30,000 per JDAM/ Spice.
From purely cost point of view, buying US weapons is always cheaper than any comparable European option. Economies of scale is a real thing! That's why allied nations continue to reap benefits of US investments.
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Pakistan/Gov - very poor and Pakistan Military/Army - rich.whatever but pakis are upgrading their naval, infantry, airforce at very rapid pace.
they are acquiring so much in puny budget that seems fishy, Most probably they are getting fundz from chinks.
and here we are crying for induction of atags or bharat 52 and the lhd are stuck from more than 1 decade, mmrca is also stuck.
imo there is dire need of reforms in our induction procedure
have landed ... according to @ForumStrategic the first batch of six J-10C for the #PAF has landed in Pakistan at Kamra. Seen here is serial number 22-103 but altogether the numbers 101 to 106 are expected within that first batch. https://t.co/HW1vcKuHag
I am very curious to see how these J-10C will Look in the Pakistan Day Parade's Flypast which is touted to happen on 23rd March. Pakistan was Negotiating for J-10 as far back as 2006 around during the Musharraf era.@Rupprecht_A (@RupprechtDeino) Tweeted:
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Technically Speaking, Pakistan doesn't really have a government. All the elements of society (be it Politics, National Interest etc) are under the control of the Pakistan Military. If their Military establishment wants to buy something new (be it ships, helicopters, Fighter Jets) than they will do so, the Pakistan Government won't be able to say anything to the Military.
