US Strips IAF Plane

[kingofkings]

 

[kingofkings]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPaBn4jA0Hg&feature=player_embedded#!

 

[SpArK]

Already posted in airforce thread and C-130j thread.

 

[kingofkings]

Already posted in airforce thread and C-130j thread.

my bad ....

 

[PakSher]

India should refuse delivery if it is not as per contract.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

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[KALKI]

I seriously hope this instills some sense into MoD while dealing with the US during any future purchases.

 

[kingdurgaking]

Not a big deal on the communication part as we will not use it outside our border during the war.. Thats why IAF has been so confident that we will not be impacted.. so better they remove it and pay back the money..

 

[KALKI]

Not a big deal on the communication part as we will not use it outside our border during the war

You're being naive.

Thats why IAF has been so confident that we will not be impacted

IAF is tring to save face. Pure and simple.

pay back the money..

lol The Americans never paid back the money to pakistanis after refusing to deliver them the F-16's for so many years, what makes you think they will pay back our money?

I think, although inadvertently, the US has given India a taste of things to come if we become too involved with them in defence purchases, including the MMRCA.

 

[sasuke]

I think after this... chances of F18 and F16IN in MMRCA is NIL

 

[Crypto]

In just over four weeks from now, the Indian Air Force (IAF) will take delivery of its first American-built C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft at a facility in Georgia, US. Part of a 2008 deal worth $ 964 million for six aircraft, the IAF C-130J will be the first US military aircraft India has procured in over four decades since it flew the American Douglas Dakota and Fairchild Packet in the 1960s.


But there is something amiss. The contract document, a copy of which is with Headlines Today, reveals five specific pieces of high-end equipment, that the US has stripped from the aircraft, being sold to India. This is a direct consequence of New Delhi's reluctance to enter into a contentious technology inter- operability agreement with Washington.

The equipment kept off the Indian aircraft includes its advanced communications equipment. The equipment includes the AN/ ARC- 222 SINCGARS combat net radio, the KV- 119 Identify Friend- Foe digital transponder, the TACTERM/ANDVT high frequency secure voice terminal, the VINSON KY- 58 secure voice module and parts of the Rockwell- Collins AN/ ARC-210(V) SATCOM transceiver.


The US has refused to fit these items on the Indian C-130J fleet unless India enters into a bilateral pact that the Indian military leadership is deeply suspicious about. It is called CISMOA - short for communications inter- operability and security memorandum of agreement.Strangely, even though the IAF had specifically asked for the high- technology items mentioned above, the C- 130J contract suggests that there is a chance the equipment won't be made available even if India signs the CISMOA. Referring to the stripped items, the contract says: " These items may be added when CISMOA is signed between" the US and India.

YouTube - IAF C-130J Hit By CISMOA

 

[KALKI]

I think after this... chances of F18 and F16IN in MMRCA is NIL

I always prefer typhoon anyways.

US is also pretty reluctant when it comes to full ToT which is one of our prime requirements for MMRCA.

We should also rethink other deals with the US besides registering a strong protest diplomatically.

 

[jha]

We hadnot taken Russian defense systems on Il-76 and fitted our own on these.
There is no need to get worried. We will fit our own systems and ensure it to be bug-free..

 

[Imran Khan]

USA hath dikha gya. there is not a single US deal in s.Asia without any problem.lolll we are fools?

 

[KALKI]

We hadnot taken Russian defense systems on Il-76 and fitted our own on these.
There is no need to get worried. We will fit our own systems and ensure it to be bug-free..

I just want to know, have wee paid for these comm. equipments etc.?

If we have paid, it means we wanted it.

If we have not paid, it means we did not want it.