Know Your 'Rafale'

[Nagraj]

Any idea about TOT.??

 

[Payeng]

:cheer2:Yeah Hi Hai Right Choice Babe ....aaahha......

May God dont bless India with another MMRCA Tender

 

[mayfair]

I will hold off the champaigne till the exact details- life cyle costs, weapons, spares etc. become clearer. I hope we do not encounter Mirage 2000 upgrade deal part deux.

 

[The Messiah]

Any idea about TOT.??

Of course there is tot.

 

[radhikareddy]

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[rock127]

A variety in the inventory is good... so excluding 126 Rafale we got is:-
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152 Mig21Bis
146 Suk30 (needs to be 272 in total)
139 Jaguars
100 MiG-27s
51 Mirage 2000Hs

 

[JAISWAL]

Dassault Rafale stocks gone up by 22%
Dassault Aviation SA: EPA:AM quotes & news - Google Finance
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Dassault Aviation SA
743.97 +131.97 (21.56%)
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[sayareakd]

someone posted this in BR i like it so i am posting this here

 

[Dovah]

Woot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Messiah]

hope swami has got good lawyer, it has not happen yet but he has posted this in website.

I think swamy is a kind of person that every lawyer would want as his client...he will cases to lawyer like river gives water continuously

 

[sayareakd]

Dassault Rafale stocks gone up by 22%
Dassault Aviation SA: EPA:AM quotes & news - Google Finance
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Dassault Aviation SA
743.97 +131.97 (21.56%)
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some people must have made lot of money......................with this info.

 

[Immanuel]

seems like Swami was right indeed, moneys have been paid out

Livefist: Indian Politician Says Sonia Gandhi Has Rigged M-MRCA Deal for Rafale

I think this deal is a no go since there is bound to be a lot of noise about this particular complaint. Besides L-1 doesn't mean a deal is through.

 

[Iamanidiot]

Our Resident Frenchman might be making an windfalll and plenty of orgasms to boot

 

[rock127]

Sarkozy and Bruni going to go crazy tonite

Time for another Bunga Bunga party perhaps. :cheer2:

 

[Param]

Great! I fell in love with Rafale the first time i saw it.

 

[JAISWAL]

News on Times Now......
Price difference more than rs. 10000 crore...
That means Rafale quoted price which in total cheaper by more than US $ 2 billion

 

[sayareakd]

 

[rock127]

old but a worthy news about Rafale selection.
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Indian Politician Says Sonia Gandhi Has Rigged M-MRCA Deal for Rafale
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Livefist: Indian Politician Says Sonia Gandhi Has Rigged M-MRCA Deal for Rafale
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If the Indian M-MRCA fighter competition wasn't quite surreal enough, in comes an Indian politician-economist, notably re-energized by his
current association with India's "anti-corruption" movement and India's monumental telecom scam investigation, to stir the pot some more. A known fire-bomber with an unabashed antipathy to India's ruling Congress party, Subramanian Swamy has now apparently trained his ire at the IAF's $12-billion M-MRCA fighter deal. Swamy, officially leader of the Janata Party, but best known for years as a voluble and dogged government baiter on all matters graft, says he has written to Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh making some very dramatic allegations. The letter (full text in image above) was written on April 29, two days after the dramatic M-MRCA elimination. Like all his letters, this one says that it draws on "inside information" from within the government. Let's get to the contents:
Swamy writes: "My sources indicate that the pre-determined decision to favour the French aircraft [Dassault's Rafale] was the outcome of several conversations between the wife of French President Ms. Carla Bruni and the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council Ms. Sonia Gandhi, and surprisingly also with two foreign nationals who are the sisters of Ms. Sonia Gandhi." It is not clear what information Swamy has based his allegations on.At the very least, it should be said that Subramanian Swamy was once quite aptly described by a leading news weekly as "the Professor Moriarty to Sonia's Sherlock Holmes", so there shouldn't be any real surprise that the
target of his letter is specifically the Congress Party president. That said, the allegations he makes are indubitably explosive. Swamy's letter
refers to "credible information" in his possession, but says nothing about what this credible information is. It is not clear if he has shared any
further information with the Prime Minister apart from this letter. The operative part of his letter goes: "Based on some credible information given to me on the conversation between Ms. Carla Bruni and Ms Sonia Gandhi's sisters, there has been an agreement of the French to pay a hefty bribe for favouring the purchase of French aircrafts." Interestingly, a popular Indian military commentator has made a slightly backhanded allusion to pretty much the same thing today. In this column published in today's Pioneer, Maj Gen (Retd) Ashok Mehta writes, "The IAF favours the Rafale not the least because the French are promising the moon. There is also a high level back channel Italian connection, they say." So either the columnist has read Subramanian Swamy's letter, or has his own "insiders", in
which case, as you've no doubt guessed, we have two prominent Indian figures saying that the Rafale has already been chosen to win the M- MRCA competition, and that it took a high-level government connection -- Swamy names Sonia Gandhi, the Maj Gen her nationality -- to work it through.It should be reiterated that neither of these controversial assertions has been backed in substance -- at least as far as I know -- in either the letter or the column. We'll have to see where this goes.

So after Bofors Scam is MMRCA another latest MASSIVE scam by the govt???

 

[warriorextreme]

yahi hain right choice baby..ahaa..

 

[JAYRAM]

i think we have to understand the security implications for this fighter, no longer we have to depend on more then one nation for our fighter, plus lots of things should also come with this (lets hope so).

it has a radar of limited range for air-to-air combat--only 140 km , which is less than the range of the pakistani F-16's radar ( 200km )

Overall less capable in air-to-air combat than Typhoon .