What is the difference between the gray eagle and the predator? Why does the US Army want it when the Predator is already in existence?

I have tried to do a search to look at the difference but cant find anything i can understand to show a difference..

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/135919/indian-af-faces-major-issues-of-immediate-concern.html

The French Rafale has been short-listed for detailed contract negotiations in the MMRCA competition. This programme for 126 aircraft, despite licensed production of all but 18 aircraft, is still likely to cost between US $10 and 20 billion. While it was presumed a few years ago that funds for defence would not be a constraint in the future, a slowing economy has led to these funds being curtailed. The Ministry of Finance questioned the Rs. 65,000 crore earmarked for infrastructure development and raising of new mountain strike corps earlier this year, while the defence budget for 2011-12 saw cuts of a few thousand crore of rupees. The nominal increase in the defence budget for 2012-13 is about 17 per cent, which amounts to a real increase of just about 8 per cent after taking into consideration the inflation rate of 9 per cent. The writing on the wall is clear: resource constraints are looming for the armed forces. Imports of defence equipment do not contribute to GDP growth while indigenous design and manufacture do. The IAF would do well to look at indigenous development of equipment to maintain or build up numbers. While this is in progress, retirement of in-service equipment would have to be delayed somewhat to maintain numbers at the desired levels.

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the French Embassy hopes that the Rafale deal will be signed by the end of 2012. I have grave doubts about that, especially considering the rupee going weak so sharply. The deal price will go up significantly for India as a result of that.

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India may have some money in dollars or Euros it could use and for a contract so big it could probably negotiate terms of payment, End of the year may also give the rupee enough time to recover slightly.

anyway by then the euro might have crashed to the bottom!

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It doesn’t need to end up friendly. Its still an American system and the chances are high that they will get all the details of the friendly match from the data base. Only the Yanks will know if the system is giving them back real-time or delayed feedback of what all the P-8I is coming in contact with.

Surely the IN have had enough of a forethought to build signals analysis equipment to understand where the data is going, plus if i remember correctly a lot of the coms systems are non US

they have now highlighted the flight suits and the support equipment for cold weather in combination with the Alaska location.

So the deployment in the UAE will help them understand the cause a bit better…

Is that 500Kgs over the weight of the LCA mark 1 with the limitation of 8g? or is it 500Kgs over the weight of the original LCA design goals of 9g?