Kay
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After de-linking Snecma-Kaveri JV from MMRCA, there is simply not much value for money in the deal. Rafale is a good plane, but prohibitively expensive for a stop-gap 4.5 generation plane. It is unreasonable to expect Dassault to guarantee air-crafts manufactured by HAL (even if it was in the original RFP - which may or may not be true). After Sarkozy, the French did show bad faith (Snecma pullout, jacking of costs of "miscellaneous" items and trying to rope in Reliance) - though the blame for the first two lie with MoD and IAF's ineptitude/ implicit consent. MoD should not have allowed Dassault to dictate terms. The Reliance proposal was insulting, laughable and simply obnoxious. (Everyone is aware of Reliance's reputation even if we ignore its aerospace capabilities).
Our IAF needs planes, but it does have enough now (less than 60% of MKIs are getting utilized). There is no reason for IAF to panic right now other than serving vested interests. They have the option to order more Tejas MK1s to replace Mig-21s instead of waiting for Mk2s. But eventually more planes will be needed.
So, a win-win for everyone (GOI, IAF and Dassault) would be to buy fewer planes (40-80), instead of cancelling or accepting the whole deal, or going for second vendor.
Deal should include all source codes and ToT promised and amount should not exceed $12 billion. The rest of the money can be pumped into FGFA and AMCA.
Our IAF needs planes, but it does have enough now (less than 60% of MKIs are getting utilized). There is no reason for IAF to panic right now other than serving vested interests. They have the option to order more Tejas MK1s to replace Mig-21s instead of waiting for Mk2s. But eventually more planes will be needed.
So, a win-win for everyone (GOI, IAF and Dassault) would be to buy fewer planes (40-80), instead of cancelling or accepting the whole deal, or going for second vendor.
Deal should include all source codes and ToT promised and amount should not exceed $12 billion. The rest of the money can be pumped into FGFA and AMCA.