I don't know if that is fact. Egypt and Qatar paid more and didn't get nearly as many offsets. India got a strategic partner deal where the French state decided to eat some cost to meet the terms they wanted. Dassault, Thales, Safran and the 500 SMEs involved are not going to sell at a loss, they are in it to make money. The way the state recuperates the money is by offering loans and profiting from the interest.
You are right. More over kaveri got a new life making French to work a bit for its induction and their own future,In the form of 125kn engine above Kaveri. They are ready to give the same subsystems for tejas which are currently imported to make it in India.
Its not like we can't do it.
The last 12 for Qatar will be paid 1.1 billion, so 95 €millions each.
The cost of the second Qatar order does not include the set-up package. It is fly-away cost plus spares. If India places a follow on order theirs would also be cheaper like the second Qatar order.
This was bound to happen. Why would safran create a competitor. Nothing is ever going to come out from foreign firm. India needs to develop it itself. Sooner india realises better for it.
Well, it is like believing that you can become a billionaire by simply looking for others' lost wallets in the street whole day.
Not looking for lost wallets, rather stealing the wallets from their pockets. Pickpockets do better than beggars. Right now we are just going around with a begging bowl asking for technology. And simply buying a weapon doesnt mean that we are entitled to know its technology. Plenty of countries buy the same weapons we buy without asking for ToT.
These wallets were highly guarded by the people who has the same knowledge and skills as those hackers. Most of times, the success of cyber espionage is depending on people’s negligence. Russian hackers are a group of the world best and they are also quite active in the cyber war, but it didn’t bridge their technical gap with Americans.
Well, India did ask for TOT, always. The problem is India can’t afford the price of full TOT.
It seems like the French strung us along only to finalize the Rafale deal.
Didn't China bought the technology from Russia, Radar tech from Israel, Airborne radar from Russia, design of aircraft from Russia, Design and development of a combat chopper from Kamov.
Yes, but China can't afford full scale TOT either. No one in this world can.
Here is the article in French: https://www.latribune.fr/entreprise...pulse-par-le-moteur-m88-du-rafale-769696.html
Macron's visit has been delayed time and again. If I remember correctly, he was supposed to visit last December. Lets just hope this "big announcement" about Kaveri comes during this visit of Macron. I will only believe an official source on this matter.
wait what m88 kaveri ??? means safranised kaveri not refined one???
