THE MMRCA DEAL SIMPLIFIED

IAF WILL NOW BE GETTING ONE OF THE BEST 4.5 GENERATION AIR-CRAFTS IN THE WORLD

After exhaustive trials of six fighter jets, Indian Air Force (IAF) has made its choice clear to the Government on the kind of fighter jets needed. Frontrunners for the force are French fighter Dassault Rafale and the Eurofighter Typhoon built by the European consortium. Bernhard Gerwert, Chief, EADS, says "If you are taking into account the portfolio of EADS we can bring the bridge between civil aviation and military aviation." But the Americans and Russians have lost out. Boeing's F18 no longer a frontrunner and Sweden's Gripen too falling off the Indian radar.

Despite MiG 35s big thunder, its engine failing to impress while the F-16, according to the IAF has no future. Another reason favouring Rafale and Eurofighter is political. Thomas Matussek, German Ambassador, "We regard India as a strategic security partner and this is why we do not insist on an end user monitoring agreement period." So when the mother of all defence deals is signed for the 126 Multi-Role Combat Aircraft either Rafale or the Eurofighter will fly away with the Rs 42,000 crore deal.

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• EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON
• DASSAULT RAFALE
• FRANCE

[sidhumax]

the Airforce was offered the mirage 2000-5 from other airforces by dassault and those were the best bet for the airforce THAT WOULD HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED THE SQUADRON STRENGHT with minimal expenditure on the infrastructure and the mirage 2000-5 is a wll proven fighter!!! also the SU 30MKI is the mainstay fighter of the airforce and now with the rafale that strenghte will be multiplied manifold.we should have spent more on upgrading the SU30MKI even more and make it the most potent

[gaurav448]

@sidhumax Su30 MKI is already the most lethal, potent aircraft in IAF. It is a multi-role, air-superiority fighter which can also perform the task of an AWACS in case of any loss of communication with the ground control room/other fighter jets, during any operation. Currently, it is also undergoing upgrading for integrating AESA radar and the air version of hypersonic BRAHMOS.However, the MMRCA deal is for medium multi role fighters - IT IS NOT GOING TO AFFECT THE ROLE OF SUKHOI 30 MKI in IAF.

[esprit83990]

RAFALE is one the best of the world !! 

[MrSouter2]

@rostant999 i am british and i agree the raffle is better all round but the 4.5 generation seem to have been a complete waste of money, the euro fighter did get the contract though. but we will be ahead when we bring out our ucav's

[rostant999]

@FreddieBambino f-22 cost about 400 million a piece then add life cycle costs and it may be 700 million per plane. it would be the biggest ripe of taxpayer money except fr the fact the f-35 is 10 times worse. every time it flies it must go through 20 to 30 hours of maintenance and it never has flown combat missions and maybe never will. it is only good patrolling us skies where no one except for a mexican drug lord may take a shot at it.

[rostant999]

@MrSouter2 sorry old boy i hope you are not crying like the brits are now. rafale is the better plane and developed, the eurofighter still need to add several feeatures but probably cant as budgets shrinking and britian, italy scalling back to free up money for the cash-cow f-35. BASe onlu wins contracts when they bribe someone (usually arabs)

[Backlittt]

(MMRCA) contract later this week -- or maybe next month, or -- since we are talking about it -- next (fill in the blank).

[MrSouter2]

The eurofighter got it

[FreddieBambino]

@OlderG0ds

Lol, sometimes when a person wishes something to be true, then it simply blocks all evidence pointing in the other direction.

F-22 is a FANTASTIC jet, that will keep you safe. I hope this helps you sleep at night.

[OlderG0ds]

@FreddieBambino I stopped reading at "fixed excercises"

[FreddieBambino]

@OlderG0ds

LMAO, F-22 has dominated F-15-and F-16 in excercises. OF COURSE, it's beneficial for the US and Lockheed/Boeing to make fixed excercises like this. You had a report from your own congress saying it was crap. Even your secretary of defense said there was something seriously wrong with America to have actually produced this crap and not intervened earlier when it was clear the jet would be useless. This he said when the US FINALLY pulled the plug in the craptor.