India, France sign $6 bn deal on Surface to Air Missile

[Ayush]

great news.
I am waiting for more info on the missiles.

 

[trident2010]

Good news !! France always had an independent foreign policy and supported us after the 1998 nuclear tests. We can trust them

 

[rashtriya.rifles]

now france has no reason to equip paf with their avionics

 

[dbc]

French SAMS such as the Rolland were the greatest threat to US fighters in Iraq, hard to visually acquire, persistent, difficult to beat and fast. India should benefit immensely from this deal.Anyone have more information on MAITRI?

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[KRAIT]

French SAMS such as the Rolland were the greatest threat to US fighters in Iraq, hard to visually acquire, persistent, difficult to beat and fast. India should benefit immensely from this deal.Anyone have more information on MAITRI?Google takes me to MAITRI | Helping Women Help Themselves MAITRI | Helping Women Help Themselves

Can you tell us more about French SAM ? Just few important points. Thanks.

 

[kurup]

French SAMS such as the Rolland were the greatest threat to US fighters in Iraq, hard to visually acquire, persistent, difficult to beat and fast. India should benefit immensely from this deal.Anyone have more information on MAITRI?

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Livefist: Programme Update: The Indo-French Maitri SR-SAM


Maitri (missile) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Contrarian]

Finally, but although I hoped for versions for IAF and IN, this can't be true, since Maitri was selected for IA in first place, IAF selected Spyder SAM.

This deal with France is for VSHORAD i think.
Spyder is SR SAM.

What i donot understand is what role does this have in IN.

IN already fields a good system in Barak 1. Its also a 10km range naval SRSAM.
IN is on the verge of completing Barak NG/8. Its a 70kms range naval MRSAM.


So where does a 15 km range Maitri fit into this?

 

[dbc]

Can you tell us more about French SAM ? Just few important points. Thanks.

They make some of the best quick reaction missiles capable of interception at very low altitudes.
Different combination of seekers such as IR, radar and TV can be loaded on the launcher.
A pilots worse nightmare, unfortunately the French are not too selective about who they sell these things to.
But fortunately our towed decoys work very well and is effective against most threats.

 

[Mech]

They make some of the best quick reaction missiles capable of interception at very low altitudes.
Different combination of seekers such as IR, radar and TV can be loaded on the launcher.
A pilots worse nightmare, unfortunately the French are not too selective about who they sell these things to.
But fortunately our towed decoys work very well and is effective against most threats.

What's wrong with selling to India ?

 

[dbc]

What's wrong with selling to India ?

I was thinking Saddam Hussein when I wrote that...

 

[rockstarIN]

What's wrong with selling to India ?

We too have an independent foreign policy like France..

 

[Agent_47]

Finally, but although I hoped for versions for IAF and IN, this can't be true, since Maitri was selected for IA in first place, IAF selected Spyder SAM.

Yes,this is confusing.looks like this is for very short range SAM.
SPYDER is QRSAM.

 

[dbc]

We too have an independent foreign policy like France..

That's ok the French will tell us how to make these thing go dumb

 

[IND151]

French SAMS such as the Rolland were the greatest threat to US fighters in Iraq, hard to visually acquire, persistent, difficult to beat and fast. India should benefit immensely from this deal.Anyone have more information on MAITRI?

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please elaborate

 

[janon]

That's ok the French will tell us how to make these thing go dumb

The Argentinians will vouch for that. Exocet.