Is that thing for export ?

Scorpion, I have been searching for that post you made regarding Rafale MMI a while back, would you be kind enough to repost or link it ?

In BVR don’t the Gripen have a lower RCS, higher range Radar & Longer range missiles ? Also don’t it have an HMDS/HOBS Missile combo which the Mirage lacks ?

when was the last time we discussed an MMRCA specific topic?

we have eurofighter and rafale threads to circle round and round in don’t we?

FWIW IMHO using conversations with pilots as evidence has been quibbled about before.

If there were a leaked document from the IAF evaluation pilots with comments on MMI, weapons carriage ability/inability or the relative merits of PIRATE over the Mica IR then that would be worth reading!

That is like a death-wish if its leaked the contract will be re-tendered.

My other question is people are discussing the China front a lot and forgetting about Pakistan.

Those Block 52s armed with AMRAAM C-5 & JHMCS (No aim 9x as of yet yay) are no slouches. I am especially worried about the Rafale going against it, for at present the Rafale has shorter range AAMs, no HMD etc. And the Greeks did not consider it to be that better than F 16 in dog fights, as per ASPIS the score was 2-2.

Another worry includes Pakistani claims that they ate the Typhoon for breakfast in a recent exercise 😮

check this

Russian Air Power: Current Organisation and Aircraft of All Russian Air Forces: New Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Russian-Air-Power-Organisation-Aircraft/dp/1857803434/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320838738&sr=1-1

Is this the same ?

http://www.flipkart.com/books/1857803434?pid=j0x3fbgjxe&_l=CJHVEqJO3veuHytbACc9dw–&_r=VuaRpeWaTsSyGIm7etoBcw–&ref=716ebb5b-493a-4683-87c2-bb7d5d658e3b

Is it in English or Russian ?

Some reasons for Dassault not to undercut their unit price and diminish their margin :

-Synergies with the M2K fleet
-Lower operating costs
-Possibility for the IAF to use the same aircraft as the Indian Navy (Navy tender)
-Already well known and appreciated supplier
-Less risky option for the IAF : actual price and performance is already known and tested.
-Still cheaper unit cost despite huge sacrifices made by the competitor.

http://machinist.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3934&Itemid=2

That is the price India is going to pay for not keeping another aircraft in the final down-select.

It looks to me as if.

1. The Typhoon is indeed far more expensive than the Rafale at-least @ flyaway cost.

2. Because it only has to be lower than Typhoon to be L1, Dassault has raised the price of Rafale, increasing their margins.

3. I wonder how their prices would have been if something like the Super-Bug was retained at this point.

😉

I always wondered what ‘world’ Russia belonged to after the USSR break up. Used to be second world.