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Except that's pretty much the entire annual PAF CAPEX budget so for a good 5-7 year period the PAF would be able to afford next to no new equipment outside of those you have stipulated.that is merely $1.2 billion/ year.
a huge deal which matches the $20+ billion deal of India for128 Rafales, minus $13 billion.
hahah such a long winded way of saying $7 billion, I like that
It is a distinct possibility, especially if this is the condition the US place on the transfer of the EMALS tech to India.F35 lightening 2 or C ... And do you think we will go for F35 ?
But we have Rafale supply line why can't we use it . Rafale at sea will be very versatile platform . Ton time better than F18 or Mig 29
Much better than the F-18 SH and MiG-29K but that is not who you have to benchmark the Rafale-M against. The INS Vishal will be in service by 2023-5 and thus the air wing will have to be in service by that date, these birds would have to serve for 30 years in the IN and although they will be lethal for the first decade or so in the IOR and beyond once the F-35's issues are sorted out and the PLA(N) have sorted out their issues vis a vis naval aviation and their faith gen tech has come alone to maturity the Rafale-M will be seriously less potent.
For the INS Vishal the IN needs to be looking at a next gen platform and by process of elimination the F-35C only candidate.
HOWEVER, a Rafale-M purchase would make a lot of sense if they were as a stop gap for the N-AMCA but for this the IN would need to get on board with the AMCA project pretty much now.
And there it is, that old chestnut...........Besides PAF has much better pilots so I think it will be a very fair fight.