Anna hajare
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RAFALE all the way. EFT is just a costly machine. plus critical US components plud saudi also having EFT. all this reduces chance of EFT and increases rafale chance.
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Sub systems, but not main techs like the radar, or the engine and that's the main difference between EF/Rafale compared to the Gripen and why there won't be any later integration of US techs. However, you are right about that the EF will have more US parts, thanks to BAE but since they, or UK and also ITA have such close relations to the US, that shouldn't be surprising or?And I asked bout the US origin kit on the EFT and his answer was not really that surprising- there are many US origin subsystems and avionics on the EFT as the EFT/European consortium didn't have the technical know how to develop and manufacture the entire plane from the ground up.
I'd be very surprised, I don't think HAL the Indian equivalent of CAC have the capability nor will the Euro Fighter consortia share cutting edge fabrication technology with India. Remember the Typhoon is 70% composite by weight, while the Rafale has less composites than India's LCA - Rafale will be easier for HAL-India to absorb.
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EFT will win for sure unless IAF/MOD gets bribed by French, the RAfale is a good strike fighter but the EFT is better air superiority fighter with just as capable strike role
both fighters are very capable one is like mango the other is like pear
I also think that the ToT/offset requirement might be too high for Indian industry, but composites should be the least problem, because we do have some credible knowledge in this field. Btw, LCA integrates more composites than both MMRCAs!
Fighters such as the F22 and the Eurofighter use up to 70% composite materials by weight (Figure 2), and commercial aircraft such as the Boeing 787 use nearly 50%.8
guys rumour mill is that the russian migs might renter the competition .Something very rocky is entering the indo-US relations
Out of six fighters contended four were failied to ignite engine at Leh however details not disclosed which four fhters were there.
As for LCA incorporating more composites than the Typhoon, a paper written by Dipankar Banerjee (DRDO) published by Cambridge in 2008 debunks your claim.
LCA airframe incorporates a significant level of fibre-reinforced composites with a uniquely high usage (45 per cent by structural weight and almost 90 per cent by wetted area) in the production version of Tejas.
structure
During construction of the Euro Fighter Typhoon full use is made of the progress of the aviation industry in the field of materials and materials processing.
About 40% of the total structural weight are in modern carbon-fiber composites (CFC's), including large parts of the fuselage, wings and the complete 70% of the surface structures.
Or we take LCAs/DRDOs official documents to account:
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Out of six fighters contended four were failied to ignite engine at Leh however details not disclosed which four fhters were there.