Why are you so confident that Eurofighter Consortium will agree to
all our demands
I didn't said they will, I said we should ask them how they would comply to that demand, because we have the L2 as an option and that makes us to be in the better position to negotiate. The vendors have only the option to either comply or not, but are dependent on our final decisions, while we can choose between 2 options and take the more suitable one.
And why I am more confident about the EF consortium, once because they include bigger companies than the Rafale partners, with available and strong ties to the Indian industry. But most importantly, because BAE already knows what we want and how HAL works through the Hawk licence production. We even saw the exact problems in the Hawk deal, that we are trying to avoid in the M-MRCA, by BAE fully suporting the off the shelf delivered Hawks, while messing up the licence production at HAL, by delivering wrong toolings with the result that MoD punished them with penalities. So BAE learned their lessons, today fully supports HAL and the Hawk production is even ahead of the planned schedule, which shows that things can work fine, if the foreign vendor wants it!
It's natural that any foreign vendor will try to get the most out for their interests and I don't even blame Dassault for trying that, but we have to look at our interests and that's why we go the competition way, to be in the better position to demand, negotiate and get at least close to what we want.
And in matters of TOT and offsets we will get even less
That is because out of the four countries ONLY UK is keen to sell Typhoon to India
That is because of the traditional UK France rivalry
Germany's economy is very strong ; it does not care about Typhoon's future
That's plain wrong, since they already stated similar ToT proposals, besides the fact that we would be a real partner in the project, which gives us far more access to techs and chances to actually be involved in the EF upgrades. The latter in fact is the main problem with Dassault now, where the F3R upgrade shows us where we stand, "outside" of the Rafale upgrade path like any export customers. We can fund and integrate certain upgrade options, but there is obviously no interest in jointly developing upgrades for French and Indian forces / requirements. The chances to include Indian techs and include Indian industry into the upgrade of EF are far higher than with Rafale, which is why the industrial offer of the EF consortium could had been even better than Dassaults, which was even evident by the proposals to include us in AESA radar and TVC developments.
And no, it's not only the UK that is keen to sell EF's, it's all partners because they had to cancel their T3B orders which causes madatory penalties. German news recently stated, that the government must pay around 500 million Euros to the industry and cash strapped partners like Spain or Italy (which were hit hard by the finacial crisis years), obviously would like to avoid these penalties too. The minimum M-MRCA order pretty much covers the complete T3B order of the 4 partner nations and would have solved this problems, but the penalties are not the only issue, since the lack of orders will lead to an end of the EF production by 2018, that leads to 1000s of people getting unemployed. So these factors alone makes the EF partner nations and industry, far more desperate to comply to our demands and sell us the EF, than Dassault is, because Rafale production is secured beyond 2020 and Dassault is not dependent on Rafale sales to increase profits.