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Thanks a lot guys !!

Deino 😀

Maybe I’m wrong, but I have a “problem” ! :confused:

Following this statement … (found at the Secret Projects Forum:

Folks,

Whether this was the “right” choice or not, the rules were pretty straightforward, this go-round. This is partly a reaction to how USAF kept screwing up the process lo these many years.
There were certain minimum criteria that had to be met. Both a/c did. No credit would be given for exceeding the requirements unless the two bids were within 1% of each other. If so, 92 other factors would then be considered and USAF would then “adjust” the bid prices for the purposes of calculating the winner. Boeing’s bid was more than 1% less that EADS’. Therefore, no adjustment, and they awarded strictly on price.

… but then – maybe I’m wrong or using twisted logic ??? – I don’t understand.

If I need to buy something and I have two products with both products are along my RFP and one is for 4,50€ and the other one for 4,52€ !

IMO it would be logic then to check which one of both is exceeding the requirements especially when within 1% and then I would maybe buy the “better” one which offers more performance to a relative minor increased price.
If one would cost 4,50€ and the other one 5,20€ … and I also have to buy some other things, then I agree to take the cheaper one since it actually fullfills my requirements.

Or am I wrong ?? ???

Deino

Fine !!! :rolleyes:

We want photos …… :diablo:

CHeers, Deino

O.T.

J-10B’s nose and avionics (with its AESA radar) is flying on an Y-8 electronics test bed in China Engineering Flight Test Center livery. some one posted the picture on chinese internet couple of days ago.

I think they are modding another Il-76 for J-20’s nose.

Yep … and IMO yet another “hint” that the J-10B features a new radar and not the same as stated by some critics.

Deino

Just found and intereting read !!

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-amb-roemers-comments-on-hal-are.html

Why US Envoy’s Comments On HAL Are Both True And False

US Ambassador to India Tim Roemer’s comments, in a confidential cable, that HAL’s ability to partner effectively with American firms on the M-MRCA license build was “untested and suspect”, has pissed the company off something nasty. The Ambassador’s comment is an important one, because I think it at once recognizes the truth, while missing it entirely as well. Here’s why:

HAL is part of the M-MRCA plan like nothing else is. It’s the only constant. No matter who wins, HAL definitely does because they get to cookie-cut over a hundred fighter jets with licensed technology no matter which of the six airplane vendors emerges victorious. What Ambassador Roemer is suggesting, is that HAL is bad at something which it is actually an expert at — building airplanes that it has had nothing to do with. In that sense, Roemer is way off the mark. Partnering with foreign firms to license-build airplanes in country is about the only thing that HAL is confidently good at. Roemer’s suggestion that HAL’s infrastructure is two-three decades behind US aerospace infrastructure is a ridiculous platitude — duh! — so we won’t go there, and that’s not entirely HAL’s fault either. The truth is, however, that Lockheed-Martin and Boeing, despite putting out sugary quotes on how much they’re looking forward to working with HAL (as if they have a choice), are in reality deeply nervous at the prospect. As a default gainer of business no matter which way the MMRCA competition goes (an atrocious situation from any angle), HAL has had little or no incentive to ramp up infrastructure or improve its systems and processes. But with a massive offset mark-up on the fighter competition — half of contract value — HAL will also be pulled in to absorb very large amounts of technology that it may well have simply no way to do. That is a real concern.

While the Indian defence establishment templates the M-MRCA competition to rationalize its procurement policy, offset guidelines and modernize the general way it goes about making large arms purchases, it would do well to consider giving HAL some competition. As it stands, the playing field is ridiculously narrow. While there prevails a semblance of competition among Indian shipyards — both private and state-owned — no single company is a threat to HAL’s airplane building activity. And that’s just bad business.

Deino

Does anyone knows why the M-2000 still wears the old two-tone camoflage … and if it ever will receive the standard IAF-grey !???

Deino

As “flateric” pointed out here’s a link with all or at least most of the “new” J-20 pictures. Actually they were from the time around the 1. flight and only posted now.

http://www.top81.cn/top81bbs/thread.php?cid=1&rootid=2792845&id=2792845

Deino