While Rafale F3 might be cheaper to buy and operate, the cost for ToT isn’t likely to be very cheap. As a result it might not be L1.
In fact I am pretty sure ToT’s cost will do Rafale a lot of harm in India even if the technologies offered are worth it.

Gripen NG

Here’s what Wikipedia says.

The new Gripen NG (Next Generation) is also referred to as the “Gripen Demo”,the “Gripen E/F”, or MS 21.

Gripen Demo. A two-seat technology demonstrator for improvements slated for the Gripen NG.

Gripen NG. (Next Generation) Proposed version with new engine (F414G), increased fuel capacity, higher payload, upgraded avionics and other improvements.

That’s exactly what I’m saying. The Gripen NG is the concept, which mean it represent all the improvment Saab and co feels able to implement.
Gripen Demo is a demonstrator to their new technologies (risk reduction), while the E/F will be whatever the Swedish can afford (and Saab hope they will afford the whole improvement package by finding as many export customer as possible willing to share the cost).

The median score gave the Air Force how well the aircraft would be in 2010. The top score was the most optimistic expectations of the performance, the score was the worst case scenario. “This leads to more complete picture of system effectiveness with uncertainties, risks but also potential”, wrote the Air Force.

Sorry, but again they based their analyse on what LM marketing told them. Or LM has already proved that the reality isn’t always what they themselve expected.

So until you get a analyse with each aircraft in operational condition like the IAF tried to do, your analyse is worth squat.
To what extend did the Ducth have access to ET, Rafale and Adv F 16? If their simulation put the F 16 in general in such parity with Rafale and Typhoon why was it eliminated in the IAF (unless there was a bias somwhere)?

Have you noticed that the US want India to buy the F 35 in a govt to govt deal whithout any kind of competition or serious test by the IAF prior?

Sorry but until I see a serious analyse of the F 35 compared to other aircraft in an as far as possible manner, this chart has little professional meaning.

The Gripen DEMO is the demonstrator. The Gripen NG, or the E/F version or whatever it’s called is the end result,, AFAIK.

Gripen NG is the concept. The Gripen DEMO is a Gripen C/D modified to test the feasibility of the concept. Gripen E/F is the end result, the one that is going to be commercialize.

The Gripen NG will have a 10 cm longer fuselage, and a 20 cm wider wingspan. I’m guessing the inner chord has been increased by 10 cm thanks to the elongated fuselage.

Gripen NG is a demonstrator, that doesn’t mean the Gripen E/F will be anything like it…

No it isn’t. There are several non-fighter non-US western AESA radars operational, from several countries & manufacturers, on ships, MPAs, UAVs, etc. The first non-US western (in a broad sense of western) fighter AESA radar was operational on the F-2 over ten years ago. The Vixen 500E AESA radar, meant for light fighters, is operational – though on border patrol aircraft, not fighters.

I think he meant fighter aircraft. And I beleive it’s the first independant fighter aircraft AESA radar in Europe at least.

The purchase of Gripen aircraft makes a debate in the press

Armament | Defence Minister Ueli Maurer has focused his choice yesterday on the purchase of Swedish Gripen fighter aircraft. A decision debated in the Swiss and French.

“It’s the choice that satisfies no one” right away Assen on Thursday morning the editorial of the Tribune de Genève.

The press is not kind to the decision to Ueli Mauer yesterday to favor the purchase of 22 Gripen fighter aircraft from the Swedish Saab to the French Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter European group EADS. An operation that cost the tidy sum of about three billion francs.
The problem? The Defence Minister has opted for the cheapest flights, but the performances are subject to debate. Developed to disappoint the military conservatives in parliament. Hence the question 24 times, “How Ueli Maurer, who wanted the best army in the world can settle for a second category of aircraft?”

Dassault disappointed

In terms of combat aircraft, the Rafale goes into effect for the best model. The French press is not lacking, and this morning to relay the disappointment of the manufacturer.

This is the case of Le Figaro: “The Dassault said in a statement it had” taken note of the choice of Swiss authorities, “but regretted that” the Federal Council (…) has consciously decided not to position Switzerland at the highest European level as regards the performance of new combat aircraft. ” The group, the capacity of the Rafale would have allowed Switzerland to acquire less aircraft to meet its operational needs, “a cost or below. ‘”

In economic and market the newspaper La Tribune, the reaction of dry Rafale is also reported. The manufacturer to recall the distrust aroused by the Swedish model: “The Gripen helvétisé exists only on paper.”

Old technology

The criticism of the aircraft Swedish side of the fuse as combat pilots. One of them confessed to the Freedom of anonymity at this stage, an update of current Tigers would have sufficed, while cheaper, “The Swedish Gripen aircraft is old technology, certainly proven, but that does not meet all the roles supposedly vested in a hunter, “says he daily Fribourg.

So what did it could have happened in the mind of Ueli Maurer? The Swiss press unanimously answers to this question: the choice of the Gripen is purely political. The cheapest aircraft is more likely to be accepted by parliament, and even by the people in a referendum.

Challenged by the UDC

But the bet is risky. Because the strategy is being challenged in the camp of Ueli Maurer, “A plane that exists only in the form of prototype has no chance in parliament,” said Roland Borer in the Tages-Anzeiger, which features in an A Gripen aircraft decorated like a Christmas tree.

Even more risky than the Greens and the Socialist Party for their part feel that Switzerland does not need for now to buy new fighter jets, “If the referendum is not guaranteed, we launch a popular initiative. The people must decide on this purchase, “says the Council of States Vaud Green Luc Recordon in the morning.

Although the champagne corks flew in Sweden, a big job of persuasion will be needed before the new Saab Gripen can actually take off, says the Neuer Zürcher Zeitung. The major daily newspaper Blick zurchois joined in the conclusion that the case will go through the ballot box, such as the purchase of F/A-18 nearly twenty years ago. To change the ramp, however, advocates will present a concept of defense and a reliable funding model, warns columnist Zurich.

Vendetta?

And if that was a controversial choice Revenge of the Federal Council against the parliament?, Asked The Times. A poor choice as a reminder that the seven sages, except Maurer, “hardly be appreciated in parliament to force the hand to anticipate the acquisition of new aircraft.”

The daily recalls that last caution purchasing Gripen may have been motivated by a dark matter in the 1960s, said the aircraft “Mirage”. Switzerland had then passed the funds to purchase French aircraft, causing the fall of the Federal Councillor Paul Chaudet.

Contribution: Marc-Henri Jobin

http://www.tdg.ch/actu/suisse/achat-avion-gripen-fait-jaser-presse-2011-12-01

Well this is not over.