Cmon guys this is the NICE MMRCA thread…

I just worry about all the sniping thats going to happen after this announcement.

Both aircraft have met the India’s criteria, both should be rightly proud of that, and the loser won’t be a bad aircraft by any means.

It’s all just costs now.. if they are close it will take a while, if its a big price gap well know real soon.

Apparently the bids are being opened at 0900 GMT.

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Caveat – being a Typhoon fan I have fingers crossed that OH MERDE! is heard!!
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So does this mean that EF bid will be already without 7% export levy?

There would be two prices, one as a partner nation and one as a export customer, I would imagine the partner nation price one would be the one offered.

Tranche 3A saw a big push for savings in maintenance costs in the Typhoon program, the UK was looking at 30% reduction before contracts were signed.

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I envy your optimism.

LOL its certainly one close race, whoever wins this race the other party can be rightly proud of their achievements.

As a confirmed Typhoon fan I would congratulate the Dassault team if they won!! and yes I do think it’s a possibility for EADs to undercut Dassault in costs, but we will have to wait and see.

I think this is one very exciting competition that other nations will benchmark against.

Good luck to all (with a slight bias to Typhoon of course:))

edit : btw, aren’t the current british royals german in origin ? 😀

NEIN.. Ve haf ein Englander – heil Lizzie.

JSF an effective, frontline multi-role fighter from day one of IOC

lol

That was in 2008 wasn’t it..
and it shows that the concept of having it all on day one is flawed.

Sorry man…

BAE reveals dramatic cut to Typhoon production rate

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/bae-reveals-dramatic-cut-to-typhoon-production-rate-362594/

Not quite the whole story…. as Jo mentions above-

BAE said the four partner nations in the Eurofighter Typhoon program — the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain — were slowing production rates to help ease their budget pressures, affecting the workload at a number of sites.

The company, one of the largest prime contractors in the U.S, said production was also slowing on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet, a U.S. program led by Lockheed Martin for which BAE produces the tailplane.

“Pressure on the U.S. defense budget and top level program changes mean the anticipated increase in F-35 production rates will be slower than originally planned, again impacting on our expected workload,” said BAE in a statement on Tuesday.

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Indeed, very strange. Eurofighter GmbH have stressed many of times that a lot of work force on the Typhoon programme would move from Europe to India if they select this aircraft…However they didn’t say “where from” & “which” companies. 20,000+ Indian jobs to be found that would work on the Typhoon, quite a lot to get a hold of…

I hadn’t thought of that.. makes sense, but the timing is suspect, what could be transferred relatively quickly i.e in the next 12 months.

Software is the only area that springs to mind.

maybe they are trying to link the UK’s stated desire to retain sovereign capabilities in aircraft design and manufacture to their struggling land sector and are hoping that the MoD will step in with a big order of say FRES UV, which will drive up their margins and “allow” them to retain operations at Warton subsidised by their profits from Land Systems.

The threat is directed at aircraft sites, It just seems to me that BAE have just found out there is going to be a drop in work, Typhoon work is steady for a couple of years even for the long lead time items (~18 months), the big question is whats prompted this now?

JSF budget tweaks?

Things seem to be looking good for the Typhoon in this part of the world, too.

Looking good is all fine and dandy, its just a question of converting it into orders and thats the difficult bit.

Rest assured there are diplomatic shenanigans running all over the place.

Japan is such a difficult market to break into, they have been tied to American equipment since the US occupied Japan in 1945, so history is not on the Europeans side.

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