What will be the floor price of the Rafale with a production volume of 900 aircraft and a production line in India?
Should be low enough to scrap reconsider any development and induction of ORCA and TEDBF fighter as both offer same capabilities. It will be why invent a wheel when you already have one...What will be the floor price of the Rafale with a production volume of 900 aircraft and a production line in India?
What will be the floor price of the Rafale with a production volume of 900 aircraft and a production line in India?
Did we? They participated in Neuron, they joined FCAS. That shows political interest for French aircraft projects. (Too bad the FCAS is doomed due to Germany being greedy, delusional, and incompetent; I'd be a lot more optimistic about it if it were just France and Spain.) For the Eurofighter, when France left, they thought about leaving along to work on the Rafale instead. In the end they didn't, something I'm sure they now regret.
It's not a question of optimism or pessimism; just keeping to what is verifiably factual at the moment when arguing about stuff. A Rafale victory in Switzerland seems the most likely to me, but right now, it's not out yet.
It sounds like a bunch of text blurbs from Wikipedia and press releases fed through a speech synthesizer.
Should be more than 35% for both mass production (the number should go as high as more than 2000 units spread over next 20years with upgrades from FCAS Program) and lower wages in India....
India alone needs replacement for mirage 2k, mig29k, first batch of su30mki from 2035 to 2040 apart from mmrca2 along with the already short fall of squadron numbers need to be filled and there is a need for Naval fighter for ins Vikrant Vikramaditya and IAC 2. Add Chinese threat India alone needs more than 300 by 2040. If Rafales are upgraded by avionics from FCAS and more powerful engines it will remain relevant till 2070 easily...
India needs ORCA & TEDBF & AMCA. It is important to procreate the R&D culture.Should be low enough to scrap reconsider any development and induction of ORCA and TEDBF fighter as both offer same capabilities. It will be why invent a wheel when you already have one...
Fact is ORCA and TEDBF fighters will offer capabilities which Rafale offers right now ready to use....
Only thing matters is, is Dassault and other ancillary manufacturers like Snecma, sagem ready to shift their production lines in India and believe in mass production of Rafales on the scale of American fighters. If so then IAF requirement alone will surpass French Air Force requirements...
Yes we do need ORCA & TEDBF & AMCA but these will come only after 2030 to be realistic but if go for Rafales we will get those numbers and technologies right now. Here only roadblock is Dassault and its mindset to bring down the Rafale's fly away cost and long term maintenance costs down drastically by allowing mass production on the scale of F-16 s by producing all the parts in India and using India as export hub for Rafale for longer periods of time and using French line for NGAF. This will bring in expertise and aeronautical ecosystem for India and all the avionics can be ported to AMCA directly reducing the research and development cost and faster development and deployment of AMCA...
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Indonesia signed a contract for 36 Rafale aircraft. However, it's not effective yet, since first comes the "IDKLO" negotiations (Indonesian acronym for "trade returns, local content, offsets").Kabar baik, Kemhan dan Dassault sudah tandatangani kontrak 36 Rafale
Kemhan RI dan Dassault Aviation dikabarkan telah menandatangani kontrak awal yaitu kontrak "Come Into Force" pengadaan 36 jet tempur Rafale.
And perhaps Bangladesh, too?
They want 16 of a "western MRCA". Looks like they want to diversify their sources, since the last time they went with the MiG-29 and now they specify a western aircraft -- not Russian or Chinese. Will they follow India's footsteps?২৫ হাজার কোটি টাকায় ১৬টি যুদ্ধবিমান কেনার উদ্যোগ
দেশের ভূরাজনৈতিক নিরাপত্তা নিশ্চিতে প্রণয়ন করা হয়েছে ফোর্সেস গোল-২০৩০। শক্তিশালী জাতীয় প্রতিরক্ষা ব্যবস্থা নিশ্চিতের তাগিদে গৃহীত এ পরিকল্পনায় বাংলাদেশ বিমান বাহিনীকে আরো শক্তিশালী করে তোলার ওপর জোর দেয়া হয়েছে। এজন্য বলা হয়েছে বিমান বাহিনীতে মাল্টি রোল কমব্যাট এয়ারক্রাফট (এমআরসিএ) বা নানামুখী...
Hope BD will not turn against India in future.
I like this member @Ashwin .
BD will be our future lieutenant, like the UK is to the US.
If you are old enough you must be remembering this incident. I am having clear cut memory of this particular incident where we lost 10+ jawans to BD in an armed clash. I even remembering a picture printed on front pages of many news paper too, in which BD uniformed guys carrying a dead Indian BSF jawan by tying his wrist and ankles to a pole & hanging him down, just like how some farmers carrying dead animals.
2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes - Wikipedia
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And, there was a talk surfaces long back on Pakistan gifting its old sub to Bangladesh Navy, when our navy chief asked about this his reaction was "IN need to patrol bay of Bengal too". Dont ask me to provide link for IN admirals's reaction, i cannot. But i can provid this.
Pakistan to gift old submarines to Bangladesh Navy
In a strategic decision that India is trying to comprehend, Pak has agreed to gift two old submarines to Bangladesh.www.dnaindia.com
So dont expect BD to be our side kick, any thing can happen. No serious power will be happy to have a strong military in neighborhood, & china too doesnt want this scenario and they will do nasty things to sabotage their only military powerhouse in its neighborhood, India. They can do to BD what they have done with Srilanka by giving development aid.
After all we all know forefathers of present day BD population choose not stick with indian federal republic in 1947. I want BD to choose any fighter other than Rafale any day, anything can happen between us in future after they improved their economy & is growing with tremendous speed, may be we will continue existing friendship or it may turn upside down.
This happened too.
American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia
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And this.
Pacific War - Wikipedia
