France should not be selling any military equipment which India will be using for its nuclear weaponry. If France is willing to sell any equipment to India which can carry or deliver nuclear weapons than France will be violating NPT and serious actions should be taken against India for buying nuclear capable equipment.
France doesn’t sell mirage 2000 N but mirag 2000-5.
Every plane can be use to launch a nuclear bomb.
I recently read in Flight International that the contest for future fighter has not even started yet
In fact, I heard that the IAF internal contest have been rejected by the Indian gov and want a new competition with the grippen and mig-29 opposed to the mirage.
On the other hand, that story of 126 mirage is now 2 years old.
and the price for one Mirage 2000-5MK is close to $100 million.
You must have misundrstood. No way the mirage 2000 can be that cheap.
For that price, dassault can sell you the nose of a mirage + the seat of the pilot, nothing more :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
One have to understand simple logic.
Interms of Unit cost and licensing M2K is more expensive than MKI and India is buying an aircraft for 21st century not 20 the century. So it is unlikely that IAF will accept an aircraft which is less sophisticated than MKI and cost more and comes later.
The problem that everyone missed is that if the deal of the first article can reach the signature, no one here know the conditions and characteristics.
IF these mirage are mostle built in India, how much will they cost ?
So minimum requirements are
1. New engine either M53PX or M88-4
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6. Aircraft should be more advance(Just imagine more advance than LCA) and a source of technolgy for Indian Indigenous programs.
So, buy a Rafale, not a mirage.
Why should India pay more for an aircraft which has less range and payload and cost more than MKI and?. The only reason will be that it will be more advance than what India has or will produce.
Or perhaps that India can’t afford to use several hundreds of MKI.
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