MRCA News & Discussions

[indianrabbit]

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I share your feeling.

[jha]

i feel we will be discussing this for at least 1 more year...too long thread dont you think?

[yashraj]

I have a feeling that F-18 SH will gonna win this tender.

That's 100 % correct feeling.

I have Inside News(From my friend who is working in Delhi in side procurement department) any Yes F18SH is Winning..

And india is Going to buy 280 SH

220 for the IAF and 60 for the Indian Navy

All this planes are inducted befor 2018.

[gogbot]

That's 100 % correct feeling.

I have Inside News(From my friend who is working in Delhi in side procurement department) any Yes F18SH is Winning..

And india is Going to buy 280 SH

220 for the IAF and 60 for the Indian Navy

All this planes are inducted befor 2018.

Well if what your saying is true.

then it can pretty much be assured that the LCA will use the GE-414.

[sudhir007]

That's 100 % correct feeling.

I have Inside News(From my friend who is working in Delhi in side procurement department) any Yes F18SH is Winning..

And india is Going to buy 280 SH

220 for the IAF and 60 for the Indian Navy

All this planes are inducted befor 2018.

hi yash it is impossible to get 220 or 280 a/c at 2018 coze if the contact sign next yr the Ist sqn. come at 26 month later it mean around 2013 so did you think with in five yr we can produce 200-280 what ever no. you given too.... it mean around 40 plane per yr.

[Dash]

If SH18 is winning then, the first thing IAF had in mind is to strengthen its ground attack capabilities. As we all know this plane is not that great when it comes to manuoverability and its main task was to crush ground targets.
So SU 30 MKI - For airsuperiority
LCA- Interception and escorting
SH 18 - Ground attack.

Feel free to comment..

[MZUBAIR]

Any New Deadline for final selection.

2005,6,7,8 and now 2009 going.....

Best of luck if India finalize deal in 2010

[vnomad]

Any New Deadline for final selection.

2005,6,7,8 and now 2009 going.....

Best of luck if India finalize deal in 2010

True, but the value of the contract has also been proportionally increasing; started at $6 billion, was estimated at $8 billion in 2007-08 and this financial year about $10.5 billion was officially sanctioned for procurement. The final value of the aircraft(incl. the 74 add. ones) is likely to be almost $14 billion(even higher if the EF/Rafale is ordered).

[T-50]

i think Europen should get the Order, India dont want to upset the Russians, So Safe bet is European, and we should learn from PAK exp. US can place sanctions anytime on any matter, tomorrow some uS president wake and say hey " India is get sanction because India still using paper work and not computerized "

Lol , US is the only country which is very unreliable, due to this Navy Stealth ship got delayed by 1 year ... becasue India got Sanction by Obama when he become president.....

Europeans are best , if any indian babus are not corrupted by US CIA , then European should win...

[yashraj]

hi yash it is impossible to get 220 or 280 a/c at 2018 coze if the contact sign next yr the Ist sqn. come at 26 month later it mean around 2013 so did you think with in five yr we can produce 200-280 what ever no. you given too.... it mean around 40 plane per yr.

Boing and India both will produce planes.

Boing is astablish their manufaturing plant in india.
first 20 planes and to be manufatured in USA. mean while the manufaturing proces will start in india.
So in 8 Years 280 target is achiveble.

[sudhir007]

Boing and India both will produce planes.

Boing is astablish their manufaturing plant in india.
first 20 planes and to be manufatured in USA. mean while the manufaturing proces will start in india.
So in 8 Years 280 target is achiveble.

40plane is very big task and i dnt think in India it is easy to establish plant and built it will take time you can see HAL has around more then 30 yr industrial setup even they cann't built in this kind of rate...........Did you think it is easy for boing to come and make ?????

[gogbot]

40plane is very big task and i dnt think in India it is easy to establish plant and built it will take time you can see HAL has around more then 30 yr industrial setup even they cann't built in this kind of rate...........Did you think it is easy for boing to come and make ?????

then why bother or even try to make any announcement,

Easy or not that's what their said they are aiming for. And that's whats i believe is written in the requirements.

[Red Dwarf]

MMRCA flight test evaluation by April: IAF chief

Satara (Mah), Dec 28 (PTI) The Indian Air Force will complete flight test evaluation for the medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) by April next year, Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Naik said.

"We will complete flight test evaluation for these aircraft by April...the report would then be sent to the government," the Air Chief told PTI.

The IAF has been holding trials for its USD 10-billion Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft tenders in which US' Boeing and Lockheed Martin, French D'Assault, Swedish SAAB, European consortium EADS and Russian MiG are contenders.

"The evaluation report would be discussed by the Cabinet Committee on Security, after which the process of awarding contract would be initiated," he said.

"The aircraft would be in service by 2013," he added.

PTI-Press Trust of India

[Storm Force]

THE DATE FOR END OF mmrca was May 2010 i thought.

For those critics who are saying india is taking fior ever

BETTER to be safe then sorry with $12billion deal.

LET INDIA FULLY TEST EACH PLANE FIRST

ITSA SMART MOVE

[sudhir007]

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Fedorov did not rule out the possibility of declaring multiple winners of the tender to supply India's 126 multi-role fighter

Moscow, on December, 28th, (áÓ¼ß-TASS). On results of the tender for delivery of India 126 average multi-purpose fighters in which Russia participates with МiG-35, some winners can be chosen. Such point of view was stated journalists by chairman of board of Open Society " Incorporated aviabuilding corporation " (ОАК) Alexey Fedorov.
" There were cases when in the complex tender, with a lot of participants and volume of prospective purchases, some winners " got out at once, - has told Feodors.
It has refused to predict, when competition can come to the end. " It very complex, I do not undertake to predict date of its end, and the Indian party, I think cannot while it to make ", - have explained Feodors.
As he said, in the middle of current year the second stage of the tender where opportunities of its participants were shown in flight all has come to the end. МиГ-35 has received flatter estimations of the customer.
As chapter ОАК, as the positive moment for the Russian party considers, capable positively to affect results of the tender, there can be a beginning of deliveries of ship fighters МиГ-29К to India.
"There were times when in a complex tender, with a large number of participants and volume of anticipated purchases, select multiple winners," - Fedorov said.

"It is very complex and not attempt to predict the date of its completion, and the Indian side, I think can not yet do so," - said Fedorov.

According to him, in the middle of this year, the second stage of the tender, which were demonstrated in flight all the possibilities of its members. MiG-35 was flattering assessment of the customer.

According to the head of the KLA, a positive development for Russia's part, able to positively influence the outcome of the tender, can become the beginning of the supply ship of MiG-29K fighters to India.

"Since the MiG-35 incorporated many design and technological solutions, used to ship the MiG-29, it can become a positive factor. The customer has the opportunity to touch, see and evaluate how it works," - Fedorov said.