Maybe they wanted to camouflage with the dark trees.
Indian Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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Apparently this is about to happen?
Various india media news outlets are saying similar stuff, for 22bn it seems they got a massive discount
Various india media news outlets are saying similar stuff, for 22bn it seems they got a massive discount
PiSigma
"the engineer"
So over $190M per jet, France must have some good negotiators. Whatever bribe they gave out was definitely worth the money spend. All to get shot down by some 20K each PL15s... I don't actually know how much each PL15 costs.
Definitely not THAT cheap, probably closer to 300k dollars each if you ask me.
PiSigma
"the engineer"
The point is those planes costs an order of magnitude more than whatever will shoot them down from Pakistan. I love how India doubles down on Rafale and waste their entire military budget. By the time they get them Pakistan will be flying J35E and spanking them hard.
I mean, that applies to any aircraft against any missile. The issue is where else can India get fighter of sufficient capabilities to at least compare to Pakistan's capabilities at the very least. They've been driven to the wall a bit with having neither the domestic industry capable of producing such jets that are both capable enough and in mass while also having few suppliers to choose from. Not an enviable position to say the very least.
$190m is cheaper than other deals involving the Rafale. Egypt, Qatar, and previous Indian Rafale deal was over $240m. The recent Serbian deal was $225m.
Edit:
After this deal, the Rafale project will have earned ~$65b in foreign sales.
Completely different size, and this time it isn't into vacuum; Rafale infrastructure is here.
The Rafale is still better than a lot of the fighter they are flying. If they can phase out a couple of model (mirage 2000, jaguar, mig-29) it would be nice for capabilities and logistics.
Is this going to IAF or IN?
What's the update on the carrier elevator issue?