sancho
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Sancho, I dont know how old you but Im continuously reading about this MMRCA for last 4-5 years. Long time before, around 2.5 years before, when US’s players jumped in this MMRCA, the very first thing happened was, Rafale was kicked out from this contest without even evaluation, but through the diplomatic efforts. But IAF then interfered and Rafale again backed after just 2-3 months and now Rafale has won the contest.............. for the diplomatic tigers to win this MMRCA deal, for what US had bet its every credibility to put their beloved Super Hornet for MMRCA, by the very first day it had been clear to me since that incident that if they want this MMRCA deal then they had to deal with Rafale only . too much lobbying was done by US's diplomats during last over 2 years to get this MMRCA but they couldn't
Too old man, too old and I have to disagree with again! Rafale was never kicked out like you said, because there was never any official statement on that from GoI, MoD or even IAF. All we heared were a report "placed" in the news quoting an "unnamed source". There was not even any statement send to Dassault nor to French government, btw the wiki leakes reports from Brazil even confirms that the US had no involvement in that, because they didn't had a clue about these news either wanted to get more infos about it.
When you count all this together, you have to realise that it was the other way around and Indian government mostlikely put pressure on the French to get more access on technical details they wanted to evaluate.
Similarly, the government of UAE is constantly feeding the news with false infos about Rafale not beeing technically good enough (although they agreed to nearly all specs that the French forces now will have), that they will evaluate F16s, F18SH, F15s and the EF (allthough none of them will buy back the M2K-9s and only the EF might be able to carry the Black Shaheen cruise missiles). The only reason for such false news is, increase the public pressure on the manufacturer or the manufacturing country and get more advantages. We might get what we wanted before the trials, the UAE defenitely get more side advantages which they wanted.
Btw, the selection of Rafale in India now gives France and Dassault to turn it around and put pressure on the UAE, since they are not dependent on sales anymore. If the UAE wants to play games, they can play it now as well, because at the end both sides knows that the UAE will buy Rafales anyway.