sancho
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Well IAF is also happy with Mirage but that doesnot mean India or UAE will pay whatever French ask them to pay. The french offer to both India and UAE are way too expensive as compared to the aircraft's worth and this is the reason why Rafale is losing everywhere. EF Consortium have bend alot for MMRCA while French are not ready to bend and this may cost them at both places. In both places French will have to make their offer alot sweeter to beat EF.
But IAF Mirage are 25 years old, most of UAE Mirages are brand new and the most capable of this fighter type. IAF has to replace fighters with MMRCA, UAE has not, that's why they want France to buy the Mirage fighters back or find a buyer for them, so there is a huge difference in both deals.
Also, the EF consortium has no other option to bend that much, because they are way more desperate than the French! Nobody wants their fighter when they have a chance to really compare it with other fighters, because its costlier than the Rafale (even for India!) and way less capable. Brazil rejected it directly, Singapor, S. Korea the Dutch and the Swiss rated it way behind Rafale and now that we know for sure that not even the partner countries will continue to buy it, there is even less hope for it's future potential (production secured till 2017 now, because of slowed production rate).
India is the best/only chance for the EF partners and the consortium have and that's why they are ready to get rid of their fighters even with a loss, so it's not surprising that they bent as much as they can, but that doesn't automatically mean that they are better then what the French offers, because they still offer the cheaper and more capable fighter and we still don't have any real clue what they offered to India on the industrial side. In no other competition the French were so quiet about the industrial part, while we got a lot of infos about that from their PR in Brazil or Swiss.