India gives 'LoR' to France for buying 26 Rafale-M fighter jets for Indian Navy

[PakAlp]

Only a fool will consider J10CE to be better than Rafales

why is Indonesia buying 42 Rafales from france and not J10CE like PAF
Why did UAE order 80 Rafales
Why did Qatar buy 36 Rafales
Why did Egypt buy 24 Ralales
Why did Greece buy 18 Rafales
Why is Saudi Arabia negotiating for buying 54 Rafales

most of these countries barring Greece should have no problem ordering J10CE , given their good relations with China

Rafale is without a doubt a beast, it has cutting edge missiles, jamming, engine etc, but J10C is also an amazing 4.5+ fighter jet, it is a great counter against the Rafale, the long range pl15e is a game changer for Pakistan.

 

[alphapak]

Only a fool will consider J10CE to be better than Rafales

Both are 4.5 gen jets, as for which is better? we will find out in the next war.

 

[White and Green with M/S]

Both are 4.5 gen jets, as for which is better? we will find out in the next war.

Bro J10CE uses lot of technologies from j20 that technologies world don't know

 

[Archie]

Is Indians are getting 126 Rafales the plan of buying 126 Rafales is scrap by IAF

Yes the contract to buy 126 Rafale was done away with becoz of budget constraints and replaced by batch purchasing with upgrades
IAF took 16 years to Induct 272 Su30MKI between 2004-2020 , with orders being placed in four batches ie 50+140+40+42

however the main mistake in this was that all the Su30MKI were identical , this was a mistake and now we are ordering the final batch of 12 Su30mki as replacement for those aircrafts lost to crashes over last 19 yrs. These aircrafts will act as a testbed for the Super Sukhoi upgrade and will come with enhancements that will be added to further 168 Su30MKIs which were inducted after 2010.
India is not upgrading the remaining 92 Su30MKIs because these airframes have completed 50% of their service life and will begin retiring in 2040 and IAF only intends to upgrade those airframes that can serve 20 yrs after the upgrade


IAF bought 36 Rafale F3R in 2020
Indian Navy will get 26 Rafale F4.2 in 2025
I do expect IAF to get a second batch of 36-44 Rafale F5s around 2027 becoz buying any other aircraft in this category is stupid