How is Reliance qualified to be involved in Rafale for India?

just on this one:

Reliance is infinitely more qualified than HAL for the very reason that it has no “we already know” attitude… they are the learning Indian partner who lets Dassault set up the chain the way it has to be done so that it can make the aircraft efficiently and at the desired quality standard.. exactly the opposite of HAL that MMRCA deal tried to force down Dassault’s throat while their ways of working and quality standards were nowhere near what was required by Dassault. Thing that not only the French have noticed, as there’s a letter from a US official back from India that states pretty mich teh same thing and that I have posted in this very discussion a page or two earlier.

Same applies to any other partner in India.. the bigger aeronautical background they have, the more they’ll be tempted by their “internal policy” which is necessarily different from the one Dassault has (or anybody else, since, by definition, every country, and even every company in each country has its own).

In the end, previous government in India had corruption affairs that came to light but the today’s one has none, which is most certainly why the today’s opposition tries whatever they can to discredit them while having zero hard facts against them…. zero

well, “all things being equal” better sensor gives better image.. it’s obvious..

but when you have a decent mid-range reflex camera, and a decent mid-range lens, if you have a decent upgrade budget for one item and can choose between getting the best camera or the best lens… if you know what you’re doing, you go always for the best lens.. your picture will be much better with a top of the range lens and medium sensor than the opposite

That’s an overly simplistic look at it.

The F-35 program (and others) use and have used this process in the past. The only thing happening now is that the program is saying that the sims have caught up with teh original plan.

well, that’s simply the reality: you test fly it to see if it works IRL as you calculated that it should

If you calculate to see whether your calculation is correct, you assume that your data and calculations are correct in the first place… you don’t verify (test) anymore, you just confirm that the data you fed to your computers with formulas you fed your computers give still the same result…

no, the rules in France are still there

from memory, the F1 with M53 engine was proposed for the european “century deal”.. against the F-16.. it was dropped after the europeans chose the latter

becasue, as xman said, it’s obvious BS… their “best offer” was submitted for MMRCA and all of a sudden, the same aircraft with the same full manufacturing facilities would be 20% cheaper? it’s not an offer, it’s just communication to destabilize the winning side and those who made the choice… the BS-level is so high and obvious that there’s nothing to consider or discuss

it should be noted that Dassault presented a proposition with Reliance being the partner. They included in it that they (Dassault) would built the factories as they see fit to make it at a given price. They were confronted by obligation to let HAL do the building and it appeared that Dassault couldn’t control (but had to take the responsibility) what and how HAL was doing things (and they obviously weren’t happy with HAL way of doing, and they are not alone, as shows the article of an american representative posted earlier here who basically said that HAL was impossible to work with by western standards).

So, some may argue that “it was said that HAL had to build it”.. maybe, but Dassault proposed a price to manufacture the aircraft in a certain way, India wanted it different from their proposal and things went on from there… You can’t just come and say my car will be in service for that price and when the buyer comes at the table you say “well, yeah, in fact you’ll pay double for what was being proposed”.. India’s officials aren’t just children that would be impressed by the guy in front, if they stayed in the negotiations, chances are that it was much more subtle and documented than “car sold without the tyres” 😉

That include air combat and if a conflict were to break out with North Korea, the F-35s would be among the first into the fray. Its at least as productive a task, as flying air superiority missions over Afghanistan.

that’s a BIG “if”… even Trump will think twice about it (the chinese are quite close up there) and we can speculate for years about that “if”, I’m pretty certain (as probably any US general around) that the F-35 will continue to fly pretty safely around Japan for some time more before, eventually, seeing live action somewhere around the middle east