Their have been 4 blocks of the rafale so far
Rafale F1 - Which included just air to air capabilites with missiles like MATRA, MICA and ASRAAM, as well as a PESA radar
Rafale F2 - Which added Air to Ground Weapons like SCALP Cruise Missiles, Hammer LGB , Brimstone Anti Armour Missiles as well...
Mig29 will retire in 2028-30
Jaguar will retire in 2026-30
Mirage 2000 will serve till 2035
Any fighter we buy will enter service in 2022-23
Tejas will replace Mig21
PAKFA will replace Mig29
Rafale is more off a replacement for Mirage 2000 rather than Mig27
F16/F18/Gripen should ideally...
A third carrier is a waste of money unless you have the CBG in place
Navy is better of spending money on Minesweepers, SSNs and ASW Helis, coz thats where we are lagging
we will have 2 CBGs with one deployed at all time, thats more than what the French and The British and The Russians are...
If additional scorpenes with upgrades cost below 1 Billion USD each, then that would still be a good deal, considering the current batch of 6 will cost around 625 Million Each
Navy has a limited budget which is better off being spent on New Mine hunters, Multi role Helis and Next gen SSKs
No need to spend 10 Billion USD on 57 Rafales or F/A18s
Better buy 57 Mig29Ks for 2 Billion USD
Well
US Military has 1.4 Million Troops,
I dont think a downsizing to 2 Million Troops is going to have an adverse impact for PLA, as long as the savings are used to bolster technology
Why do the chinise always troll before even reading the article
Its clearly mentioned that the tender is meant for domestic shipyards
And contenders are
GRSE, MDL,HSL and L&T
All of them are indian
Its true the SRSAM and Torpedoes will be imported but rest everything is made in India
well as far as dealing with outsiders is concerned, its a totally different ball game and often money is paid
I have read about some poor people selling their Kidneys for as low as Rs 60000 to some guys paying upwards of Rs 1500000 to the donor for emergency kidney transplant
First Jaya now Sushma
If Rekha too gets hospitalised, then somebody will have to change the Jingle of Nirma
If the kidney donor is from within the family, then it gets carried out immediately without much paper work.
otherwise it could take upwards of a year to find out a suitable donor
Mig29Ks seem to provide the best bang for bucks
we acquired 45 of these for around 1.5 Billion USD
If we can get another 30 for under 1.5 Billion USD, then I would consider it a great deal
Well, their is a total requirement of 30 MPA/ASW aircraft in the navy.
at the moment we have 5 IL38 and 8 Tu142 which will need to be replaced in next 10 years,
So my guess is that we will probably order 8-10 units of additional P8I sometime around 2020 as their replacement
Hilary will ensure that the policies of Obama Administration continue
Trump will cause more problems in the long run due to his potential to start a war against a muslim country and
due to his economic policies which will bring in the Great Depression
If i didnt already own a dog , i would have been proud to give one of these brave hearts a home.
But Since I already have one dog that scares the crap out of people who enter my house, so i dont really need another one
Longbow is a Radar and avionics suite designed for Special ops
all models will be AH-64E but only 12 will carry Longbow system, same goes with the follow on order where 20 will carry the Longbow Radar while rest will be standard AH-64E