Rafale DH/EH of Indian Air Force : News and Discussions
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For the sake of information, 25 rafale will be delivered next year.
Why? What does "BR" stand for?
I thought the IAF Rafales are DH and EH. So Rafale H.
Allegedly they are now BR instead of EH. This was talked about when the first revealed Rafale for India had the identifier BR008 -- not EH008. It's been said that it stands for "Bharat Rafale" and that the GOI demanded this change in nomenclature.
Yes Trappier sait in july 2015 that he decided to increase the production to 2/month and normally the consequences is that in 2018 Dassault would have produce 22 planes with low production in 2015 and 2016 for adaptation of assembly line.
But in the Dassault "Rapport de gestion du Conseil d’Administration" we learn that the 2017 production was only 9 Rafale (8 for Egypte and 1 for France) and 2018 production was 12 Rafale (9 for Egypte and 3 for France) and 2019 production will be 26. So the increase of production was only in december 2015 and not in July. But now the production will be 26 instead of 22.
https://www.dassault-aviation.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2019/02/RFA_Abrege_Vdef.pdf
Page 62 and 75.
Your table was published when the Indian order was expected in the begining of 2016 (03-04 of 2016) but your order was in September 2016 and if production begin at the signature, delivery begin 3 years later. So September 2016 ==> September 2019 for the begining of production At 1 by month (because there is Qatar who share the production), it gives 4 Rafale for India.
Imagine if Indian Wg. Cdr Abhinandan was flying a Rafale instead of Mig-21 Bison for this engagement? Scoreline would have probably read 4-0. And not even one AMRAAM would have been able to lock on to the aircraft. Forget about targeting it.
I've often wondered why we can't have a cess for defence in our taxation as we used to have an education cess before. We still can. For education, infra, swacch bharat and defence. Have 4 tax slabs ( viz 4, 8 , 12 & 16 ) with a bulk of goods & services taxed in the latter 3 slabs and an addition of 4 ( eg the first slab is 4.hence the first tax slab out to be 4+4= 8 ) to cover the above overheads in addition to the usual provisions for these heads made in the union budget.
The money is not that big of an issue, IMHO.
Its the will to buy -- yes it is a real thing. No one wants to be called "Scammer", "Khau" and what not...
I only hope that Indian Bureacracy should not use this incident of Mig-21 shooting down F-16 to make a case for procuring more Mig-21s. You can expect the most stupid arguments from them.
"old" document. The 12 follow on order for Qatar is missing.
And there is a difference between production and delivery.