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July 9, 2004 at 12:22 am in reply to: Sweden Confirm Pakistan wants to buy Gripen Jets #2672936

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and dont forget Volvo has a plant in india for trucks and starting
to export auto components. And Ericsson has been booking very large deals for cellular base station eqpt in the worlds fastest growing major cellular market – India.

July 9, 2004 at 12:15 am in reply to: Sweden Confirm Pakistan wants to buy Gripen Jets #2672940

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A 20% downpayment is quite common in arms deals with the
rest spread out until final delivery.

July 8, 2004 at 10:23 pm in reply to: New Iranian fighter! (Picture) #2672995

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quite creditable for a country relatively isolated on the world scene.

July 8, 2004 at 6:54 pm in reply to: Indian Defence News thread #2673147

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most democracies have settled to around 2.5-3% of GDP as the defence expenditure. Not being switzerland there are 1000 other depts to funnel cash into and india faces no great short term threat from anyone to merit a panic surge.

funding for defence R&D is up 20% and capex for same 100%.

July 8, 2004 at 6:51 pm in reply to: Indian Defence News thread #2673154

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from BR:
$7.2 Bil Capital outlay is combined for all three forces, while their budget figures are for revenue expenditure including pensions

Total Defense Budget = Army + IAF + IN + Capital outlay + DRDO + Ordinance Factories + D Ministry

$ 16.7 Bil = 6 + 1.15 + 1.8 + 7.2 + DRDO + 0.09 + D Ministry = 16.24 + DRDO + DM

Capex for all services is $7.2 bil, out of this india needs to pay around
20% of the 4.5 billion (phalcon,Hawk,gorshkov) => $900 mil.

That still leaves $6.3 bil for capex. the navy and AF will probably have
$1b each and army $4b. room for lots of essential stuff like the new
Jags, MKI production line, smart munitions, radars, Mig27-Jag upgrade etc.

its the army which has no big ticket items lined up other than Bhim, Smerch and laying in more of Pinaka. I hope they go big for all three and
*finally* conclude the interminable towed arty trials this year.
ample cash to continue the infantry/SF modernization and the Arjun/T72upg/T90M progs.

July 8, 2004 at 6:45 pm in reply to: Indian Air Force Pictures #2673192

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These pics have been posted loooooong ago.

July 8, 2004 at 4:20 pm in reply to: Agreement soon Pak to acquire Ukraine BVR missiles #2061469

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French aint cheap – they might insist you buy a RDY2 also for “only” say $9 mil per pop 🙂

you are right about the SD-10 , perhaps it wont be ready in the
2008 timeframe.

July 8, 2004 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Agreement soon Pak to acquire Ukraine BVR missiles #2061478

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so wouldnt the AA-10U need to be integrated with a FIAR radar ?
does ukraine have a independent design bureau to develop new versions of AA-10 or is this referring to old stocks held from the USSR days?

hmm interesting comment Crobato – if true would mean SD10 is out of contention for the FC-1 and Pak still needs a reliable BVR missile.

July 8, 2004 at 1:03 pm in reply to: IAF Questions #2673479

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I heard it was the Griffin kits. thanks for the list – very comprehensive.

July 8, 2004 at 1:02 pm in reply to: Indian Defence News thread #2673483

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dont know about the M2K5, but the infantry/SF modernization
will continue and the Scorpene deal will happen merely because they are such pressing needs.

July 8, 2004 at 5:22 am in reply to: Project-15 Spec & Indian Naval Programme #2076621

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ins betwa at commisioning ceremony today

http://www.anandabazar.com/archive/1040706/kolpic.htm

(tries to install bengali font, just reject it)

July 8, 2004 at 5:00 am in reply to: Agreement soon Pak to acquire Ukraine BVR missiles #2061513

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a interesting snippet here:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/769095.cms

Pakistan has also so far failed to get a squadron of used F-16 form Denmark which wanted to dispose them off. The sale apparently could not take place as Denmark failed to get the required permission from the US.

July 8, 2004 at 4:59 am in reply to: Agreement soon Pak to acquire Ukraine BVR missiles #2061516

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if you take it literally, PAC Kamra has been installing and servicing the modified Grifo radar on the F-7s.

July 8, 2004 at 3:57 am in reply to: Carrier using nations.. #2076636

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letting NZ know whos the big wolf in the forest 🙂

July 8, 2004 at 3:45 am in reply to: Agreement soon Pak to acquire Ukraine BVR missiles #2061533

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> at least three prototypes of the fighter are conducting
> dozens of sorties everyday

rotfl.

> Pakistan under ToT is already producing these radars

the redoubtable F-7s radar it looks like :rolleyes: Excellent.
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