Modification on price, that's what we were talking about a year and a half ago, you have to keep up! There aren't too many interesting events at the moment, so we can look at the posts we neglected when there were too many.
No clue. Are you privy to the price Dassault offered India initially & the price at which they're going to sign the contract ?
No idea, I'm on eternal holiday now! I don't know what's in the contract, I have the impression that there are a lot of things in addition to the planes. They say it's the arms negotiations that are delaying the signing, but it could be in another contract. A year or two ago I was hoping that we'd get 26 for the navy and 72 for the IAF, which would allow us to produce Rafales in India. But India doesn't know how to seize an opportunity when it comes along. Mérignac is going to be saturated, and we'll have to produce elsewhere than in France, and it won't be India, even though we've already got 500 Rafales and will certainly reach more than 1,000.
Dassault sets up MRO for Rafale, Mirage fighters in India; Indian national to head venture
French company Dassault Aviation has begun acquiring land near the Delhi Noida International Airport/Jewar International Airport, which will house a future MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) facility, where aircraft will be serviced. In addition to the Indian ones, Indonesian Rafales are also to be serviced there. In addition, India is currently negotiating the purchase of 26 Rafale Marines for India's Navy, so the fleet of French aircraft in India may soon increase. In addition, Safran wants to build its MRO facility in Hyderabad and it will service the Snecma M88 engines used in the Rafale.
French company Dassault Aviation has begun acquiring land near the Delhi Noida International Airport/Jewar International Airport, which will house a future MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) facility, where aircraft will be serviced. In addition to the Indian ones, Indonesian Rafales are also to be serviced there. In addition, India is currently negotiating the purchase of 26 Rafale Marines for India's Navy, so the fleet of French aircraft in India may soon increase. In addition, Safran wants to build its MRO facility in Hyderabad and it will service the Snecma M88 engines used in the Rafale.
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India will eventually become more enticing as a production hub after a few years of production. All other countries will struggle with labor shortages.
French aircrafts seems bit more costlier than their counterparts but the reliability, longevity and capability they provide are awesome which makes them cost effective in long run and rightly the first choice of IAF and IN.
If we are able to Make 75KN/120 KN engine, we can make one variant of MWF as naval variant. It will have 30% higher dry thrust and about 23% higher wet thrust. After modifications, it can be a single engine deck-based fighter. What is your view on that sir?
Like what we did in Doklam Conflict, we can deploy these deck-based fighters in border area as well. We had deployed Mig-29 in Doklam at the time of Doklam Stand-off.
the shore based aircraft are required to fly over land mostly, so they need high wingloading to be able to fly safely at low levels in case they are not 5th Gen. But the requirement for a deck based fighter , especially for Stobar carrier, is that the aircraft should have low wing loading. Its not so much about engine thrust as it is about generating lift. So even with lower thrust you can take off from the deck provided you have bigger wings. Take the case of F-35A and F-35C.
The Rafale flies safely at low altitude and has superior lift thanks to the canards, which create vortices on the upper surface that increase lift.
I think this is true for every aircraft with Canard. Canards are basically installed for that Purpose along with some other purposes.
Not for the Typhoon, whose canards are not coupled to the wing. What's more, on the Rafale this was done to resolve the contradiction that @vstol Jockey mentioned between a land-based aircraft and an aircraft embarked on an aircraft carrier, in particular a STOBAR.
I'd heard that MKI canard were used to compensate for the very high weight of the radar.
MKI's canards are mounted on an enlarged LERX(far bigger than baseline Su-27/30). Thus it increases lift/increases high alpha and reduces its stall speed. Typhoon's canards are designed like that to help its supersonic turn performance.
The genesis of MKI's canards was in Su-33 Naval flanker. It was mounted on enlarged LERX to reduce the landing speed and increase control at low-speed/high-alpha.
MKI got canards(+ enlarged LERX) from Su-27M program aka Su-35/37 because of high weight of radar plus to mitigate CoG/CoP change due to heavy nose along with increase in high-alpha performance and to increase its overall lift(substantial, trust me!). That's why MKI's turn rates are so high.
However, Chinese Sukhoi 30 does not have canard I believe. Both versions have different Payload of Radar? I know that MKI radar is more advance than Chinese Su 30 Radar but Do not know about the weight.
Su-27SK had N001 Mech radar while PLAAF Su-30MKK had N001VE. Both of them weighed substantially less than MKI's BARS(around 200-300kgs less).
Chinese wanted Su-30MKK more as a fighter-bomber/striker against USN's CBG. IAF wanted MKI as our 2-seat Su-37 Terminator Super Flanker aka (multirole)Air Dominance Fighter. Both design objectives were different.
Cheer for you for the information.
I think Russia was not interested to Share those radars with China. What they sold to China at that time was the downgraded version of Su 30 which was sold to India.