http://www.indiandefence.com/forums/indian-air-force/6127-eurofighter-typhoon-v-s-dassault-rafale-analysis-732.html#post230736

Quite informative…

Nic

Does it work on girls’ clothings?

Nic

Just a small dig……but…..is being “decorated by Stalin himself” something to brag about?

You can’t criticize communists in France.

Nic

They could still get it. As a matter of fact if the MRCA acquisition drags on any longer, that would become a better alternative. The original idea was for the the domestically produced deliveries to start around 2015 and carry on till about 2022 resulting in minimal overlap with the PAK FA’s domestic production.

I don’t think the Mirage 2000 tooling exists anymore.

But if HAL’s deliveries of the Rafale are going to commence in 2017-18, it makes more sense to dump the plan rather than run PAKFA and Rafale production lines concurrently. In the interim, acquire Mirages from UAE, Qatar and Kuwait – unlike the IAF’s Mirages which are going through a remarkably expensive upgrade, these aircraft are already top-of-the-line and have a fair bit of service life remaining.

India has always wanted to mix western and eastern sources in order to not put their egg in the same basket in case the political uncertainty. I don’t think production overlap is an issue especially since the planes won’t be used in the same role at all.

Nic

Every time I see a politician of the french government on TV or hear what they say on the net. It truely makes me want to swear.

Nic

This certainly shows and the novel is, by all accounts, appalling. I will finish it because I never let a book defeat me, but I will never be touching Dickens again.

Part of our national heritage? Perhaps in a socio-historical sense, yes, but as a literary work, not by any stretch of the imagination. 😡

I have read oliver twist and another novel I remember, and I loved them both… I haven’t read the book you mention though.

Nic

Reading two books at the moment:

– The road to 9/11 : wealth, empire and the future of America, by Peter Dale Scott
– The one hundred years war of the secret societies by Henry Coston

Nic

and in a scenario were it faces VLO opponents within range ? what then?

The idea is to kill the force multipliers of the opponent to take the advantage. Mig 31 won’t be able to reach close enough, because it will be detected from too far away and F22s / F15s escorting awacs or tankers will be able to protect them.

On the other hand Pak-FA might very well slip in a position to fire their R37s at those planes and deprive the F22s of their support. Forcing them to reveal themselves (by using radar which could reveal their position), or forcing them to leave because of lack of fuel…

Nic