— A fleet of 30 Dassault Aviation Mirage 2000-9 fighters, plus the retrofit of 33 Mirage 2000 SAD8s now in service to the 2000-9 standard, worth $3.2 billion.

— Thomson-CSF RDY multifunction radar equipped with upgraded air-to-ground software, along with electronic warfare countermeasures suites and other equipment worth up to $2 billion.

— Matra BAe Dynamics Mica medium-range air-to-air missiles, either the existing RF or the new infrared-guided version now in development, valued at around $700 million.

— Matra BAe Dynamics Black Shahin stand-off missiles, derived from the Scalp/Storm Shadow being developed for France and the U.K. This part of the deal, which is not yet final, is expected to be worth $1.3 billion.

Bloody Fockers..

You will be sweltring hard in mumbai buddy.. take good care..

have a happy and safe journey..

btw… mumbai airport S U C K S

Arthur.. are you enjoying the show.. 😀 btw.. what are you having in your hand..

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=39145

I think that it would be better for IAF to reduce the museum(Someone on BR/AFM mentioned) type inventory.. With CCS clearing the deal for Qutari Mirages.. I have a strong feeling that it would be M2k..

hawk… cats are still out of IN’s reach…. more on this later..

Austin.. yup one AK from either side has been removed.. .

F-18 we had some pretty big discussion about this on BR… if you don’t mind you can go through the archives/trashed threads on BR..

😀 … I will disagree..

let’s not react.. IAF knows very clearly what it wants.. I am getting the feel that IAF will get the Mirage-2K-1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/whatever.. :diablo: .. with a decent offensive package.. no F-16/18 etc… To operationalise a new platform will take time 6/7+ years .. and time is a luxury that IAF is not having at all.. Money will not be a problem…

IAF will now give a new thought to the EW and SEAD operations.. and might pull in MKI for the role.. converting few MKI’s like growlers F-18G’s…

You can expect more force multipliers and some serious tactics revamp.. if not already done..

Expect some speedier completion of work on LCA through collaborations etc… especially in weaponisation.. I mean marrying the weapon systems from US/MBDA etc to LCA..

So, Indian govt should not be crying over this sale of few F-16s to Pakistan?
By the way it snot 200 Mirage-2000 since IAF chief few weeks ago said that we are not interested in a single engine aircraft, and since russia threatening about going to the western countries I guess the only choice is Mig-29s?

When did he said no single engine aircraft.. :confused:

crying/no crying is a political game.. everybody does that.. nothing new in that.. it will happen in any case no matter what.. GOI/GOP or for that matter any other gov are no different from each other..