[QUOTE=Vnomad;2113494]Despite Current Downturn, Long-Term Growth Prospects for India bright – World Bank
the report cannot even forecast correctly current year growth let alone some thing long term. better to discard it. I am am not even going into bogus inflation created growth.

According to the Update, a twice-yearly report on the Indian economy and its prospects, economic growth is likely to accelerate to over 6.0% during the current financial year (April 2013-March 2014).

At the current growth rates, the Indian MoD has about $100 billion to spend on capital acquisitions till the end of the decade.

there is no chance of it. even best of times 2000 to 2014. it barely touches $40b on distributions.

Sorry, but your argument goes against you: towards India, it is Dassault that is THE proven vendor, not Russians which you had to struggle with to get what you paid for

There are more MKI flying in IAF than Dassualt have Rafales. there is huge delay and over price in French Subs for IN.
Dassualt is never a proven vendor. It is just media planted stories. there is very good example of Dassault record in Taiwanese airforce.

Tell that to Serbs, Russia was “their greatest ally”, their “brothers”, not just some “vendor”, yet, when NATO decided to bomb them, Russia was nowhere to be found, except for a few voluntary boots on the ground

it is not 1990s. Russia has proven ally of Syria while France is pretty much own by Arabs. see Libya war example and the losses to India due to Libya conflict.
infact in less than 10 years there wont be single French company without Arab ownership. EADS will be totally dependent on Arabian airlines cash flow. There is no way France can stand with India if India is conflict with Islamist country.
I would even estimate that with deployment of S500 missile system the small nuclear arsenal of France will become redundant. There is no large scale procurement in domestic for Dassualt that it can even think about funding next generation technologies.

Nice try, but your answer is beside the point and wrong at the same time, first, what Rafale’s major role underlines is that it is designed to be able to face pretty much anything you’ll find as air defense, regardless what country you put in front of it.

Rafale is never designed for 21st century major war. It is obsolete 1980s concept.

I don’t ‘fully understand’ it because its utter bilge. About 50% of China’s crude is still shipped in from the Middle East. And only a portion of it is covered under long term supply contracts, which means the annual increment in demand does impact the global price of crude.

50% of crude. whose figure is that. certainly not Chinese government. I am very skeptical about this numbers. China largest investment funds in Venzuela. and China does not give that much importance to plight of Arabs. see Syria.

Indeed. Thanks to ‘super SAM 2020’ and ultra-long range AAMs, even frontal stealth isn’t needed… in your parallel universe.

frontal stealth necessary as your going towards the target.

And when the aircraft has to return to base, do you put it in reverse or does call-sign ‘JSR’ do a circumnavigation of the Earth?

if it is returning why it has to worry about signature. it has the longest range and tail chase engagement are highly unlikely due to limitation of missile ranges.

Ordinarily I don’t mind minor spelling mistakes or grammatical errors as long as the sentence makes sense. ^ this sentence on the other hand makes no sense at all.

These factors are utterly meaningless. They’re probably the first thing that came up when you googled it.

FYI, the factors that would really matter are the

a) growth rates in emerging economies, particularly China
b) production increment
– Iran & Iraq exports
– Shale oil revolution

It has nothing to do with China. it is explosion in population in middleast with dsysfunctional economies and unemployable that most of Oil will be consumed domestically nothing left for exports. shale oil will only survive for long term when prices rises. otherwise you can see the falling profits. Pluse $800b in Russia procurement will have very negative impact on middleast politics.

Right there in the translated paragraph, in its own parentheses as shown below (separated from the 40W low band HEMT which is in its own parentheses). The translator’s right on the money and hasn’t screwed up the location of the brackets. I supposed the translator mixed up the words output power and meant to actually display average power right? even though I pointed out the undisputable FACT that average power is not a value used to describe an amplifier component unless its given context by also stating output power (peak) or other data indicating duty cycle.

BTW to respond to your incessant bleating of “conservative” values of 10% for duty cycle. A “conservative” value is actually 100% for jamming modes. So unless you have the number or the other required variables, do your credibility a favour and stop desperately quoting it.

“( frequency range 9-10 GHz, phased reshegshhch M / gain 13 LB ; output power 38 dBm
)”

As long as Russia is reliant on legacy foreign production equipment and US TRM control modules (as evident with the Altera (US) controller in the Zhuk AE TRM shown below), the answer to “How long do you think the broader “technology gap” will last” is infinitely.

How’s Russia going with its 0.007 micron processor development?

Zhuk AE TRM
[ATTACH=CONFIG]225284[/ATTACH]

…that’s where that account got to :eagerness:

Zhuk AE is MIG private venture for India MMRCA. so the cheapest route for components.

You do realize Rafale is compatible with NATO standards? It is not limited to propriety, rather the French choose to operate propriety. Their propriety is not NATO standard although ordinances like MICA can be integrated into other approved systems since they are Eurocentric in ownership.

An M2K is not compitable with NATO standards that needed expensive MICA for IAF. there is Eurofighter that has price dispute for past 4 years in major export country and I believe Meteor hasn’t been exported yet.

Possibly. Then again, the FGFA order cut from 244 to 144, suggests that the IAF is trying to step back from the program to a less committed position. The FGFA today is a straight-up PAK FA acquisition (with slight customization). But its public position of being committed to the FGFA, effectively ties the hands of the Indian negotiators. Creating some space would give them some badly needed leverage while negotiating with the Russians over cost and technology.

order cut means that they cannot afford 244 FGFA. which was very unrealistic number. They simply cannot have any leverage.