France confirms India’s interest in Rafale F5, potential first export customer

[Corax]

Not sure what you mean here buddy
Pakistan
Swedish AWACS
USA falcons
French mirages
Chinease planes

That's a mixed kit bag is it not

Coming back to humiliation narrative
How did it feel seeing all your air bases being hit one after the other on the 10th including nuke storage sites
And your Chinese sams
Swedish AWACS
USA falcons and chinease fighters not anywhere to be seen unable to react or stop air raids from french Rafales and Russian su30mki using Indian navic satalites

You asked the question how they going to link them we demonstrated this in one hour on the 10th that was a 2 minute trailer
I don't think you want see the three hour movie

So who's introducing the May conflict in every thread now hunh? hindutva tunis like you can't help it, every time your ego gets hurt you spew the same bollywood BS your brainless masses have been spoon-fed.

 

[Pak-Warrior]

You asked Yasser
Here is your answer
How strange the would view on Sindoor and Indian military power is so different to a Pakistan forum
I wonder why

If I'd be indian and my military plans an ambush (time and place of our choosing) to attack Pakistan and end up losing 7 fighter jets including its most advance Rafales then I'd be so humiliated that I'd never again come to a Pakistani defense forum. Yet you have audacity to come and entertain us with most obvious fantasies.

I mean you have to be really stupid on an extreme level to believe on fantasy stories of hitting Pakistani sam sites, c130 or awacs or f-16s LMAO!!.. Indians cooked up these most hillarious stories after 2 months of actual operation. Even a kid can see these have ZERO evidences and only done for political purposes and to give something to indian airforce after its massive humiliation. All india did was hit a runway and few other ground places. Hitting fixed targets is the easiest mission any airforce in the world can do. Any tom or dick can do. If Pak wanted to escalate, its pretty common sense it could have hit Modi's house too and indian miiltary head quarters too. Point is Pakistan already had scored multiple kill scores, so it was happy to end the skirmish in a winning note instead going for a long haul.

 

[Ak01]

You can't deny satalites photo and live mobile phones with country folkes praying in the world news

Are you telling me your biggest air bases have no sams

They where disabled first that's why no interception complete carnage

That was a simple demonstration nothing more

So show the satellite photo and mobile phone images.

And yeah, Pakistan doesnt deploy sams at every air base.

A simple demonstration of Indian incompetence.

 

[ety]

And the Rafale "F5" will have to face J-35As and Kaans.

We all know how the story goes when a stealth platform "meets" a non-stealth platform for combat.

Lol, according to Indians, Rafale F5 is their super 6th generation fighter, not 5th or 4th gen, meant to take on J-36 or J-50.

6th-Gen-Like Fighters For Indian Air Force! Here’s How Rafale F5 Will Give IAF A Decisive Edge Over Adversaries​

6th-Gen-Like Fighters For Indian Air Force! Here’s How Rafale F5 Will Give IAF A Decisive Edge Over Adversaries

India’s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has approved the acquisition of 114 additional Rafale jets, six more P-8I maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft, and discussed the flagship program to develop indigenous marine gas turbine engines for the Indian Navy. After the DAC granting...

www.eurasiantimes.com

 

[ety]

Fake chinease media

As proven by hundeds of orders Rafales by the likes of Ukraine UAE Qatar India etc

And big fat zero for chinease stuff

Heck even a turkey went for Typhoon at 300. Million each rather than chinease j10 at 50 million
I mean come on did you not tell them about your social media we shot five or was it seven jets the nos keep changing

Lol, you forget Turkey is a NATO member country. You know what happened last time when they tried to buy Chinese SAM HQ-9 system.

 

[harpy1]

I can't wait to see 176 Rafales in service
That is some move
And imo the most powerful move we could have made that was secure free of sanctions and combat proven

I genuinely believe this will. Give India the next generation Safren engines for Amca too.

Beyond this the footprint and confidence between France and India which by 2035 will have gdp and military spending double that of Germany and France etc will lead to Fcas sixth generation entry in 2040 after India finishing Rafale induction let's merge straight into Fcas entry as rapid induction of those types of technology as well natural progression from Rafales

Future India fleet of

Refales and drones then Fcas
Backed by
Tejas Amca and Indian drones

Seems the right route next two decades

 

[harpy1]

So who's introducing the May conflict in every thread now hunh? hindutva tunis like you can't help it, every time your ego gets hurt you spew the same bollywood BS your brainless masses have been spoon-fed.

It was Yasser bringing it n

Notice my reply to him...when I said deliberately...regarding your needless may 7th jibe
I think his in shock at pending french Indo strategic military tie up his reeling imo

 

[Corax]

It was Yasser bringing it n

Notice my reply to him...when I said deliberately...regarding your needless may 7th jibe
I think his in shock at pending french Indo strategic military tie up his reeling imo

Nah mate, it's you who brings in BS bollywood media at every opportunity you can get when your ego is hurt. You're crying like a little bitch, just because someone mentions 7th May does that mean you have to immediately respond with your BS?

 

[digitalSurgeon]

sindor 2.0 we should take all of kashmir and convert India into a tandoor

 

[harpy1]

Nah mate, it's you who brings in BS bollywood media at every opportunity you can get when your ego is hurt. You're crying like a little bitch, just because someone mentions 7th May does that mean you have to immediately respond with your BS?

So show the satellite photo and mobile phone images.

And yeah, Pakistan doesnt deploy sams at every air base.

A simple demonstration of Indian incompetence.

So you have no sams at nur khan or bolhari your biggest prestige air bases

Now that is incompetent or did you think the missles would not reach or India would not dare go that deep or that far...

Anyway that myth is busted
They can come that far with ease it would appear..you agree

Now back to the the topic you notice I started this thread in December 2025.

And hey look three months later India confirms they are inducting both in fact all three of
Rafale F5 first customer
Rafale marine first customer
Rafale F4 to be built in India

You see there was rumours murmuring for months re Rafale F5 and Marine Rafales I just knew it was happening you see

That will mean 176 Rafales in total
But I hear another Request by the Navy for 31 more marine Rafales is on the table to equipment Vikrant two carrier
Yes India is building a bigger modified second Indian designed carrier to replace russian Vikramditya by 2033-2035=and the navy wants 31 Rafales french neuron drones and USA MH60 Romeo' helicoptors for the new carrier which will have bigger hangers electro magnetic launch system. For quicker take offs

 

[Ak01]

So you have no sams at nur khan or bolhari your biggest surprise bases

Now that is incompetent or did you think the missles would not reach or India would not dare go that deep that far...
Anyway that myth is busted
They can come that far with ease it would appear

You're genuinely one of the biggest morons ive come across. Its amazing that everything must only be the way it works in your peanut brain...

 

[hussain0216]

Not really.
EF2000, SH18, F21, Gripen E, Mig35, Su35, Su57 etc.... are and remain on the market.
IAF and Indian top brass had and has the choice.
The price include local assembly (it has a price), support and probably a deep weapon package.

Not really, they had already bought the Rafael, they cornered themselves, picking another platform would mean they had to restart all over again

The Tejas fleet is currently grounded because of the third crash in the last 23 months, it's unreliable and the more they push it the more it will crash
I'm not sure if they've worked out the problems with the Tejas 2 but considering it's still HAL I doubt it

France knows all of this

They've had the same discussions for at least the best part of the last two decades, France ALWAYS asked for a high price

The Indians originally wanted 114 planes, but with TOT and some manufacturing inside India

France refused and in the end the bought 36 directly from France, assuming Tejas would work out, Su57 would work out, AMCA would work out etc

None of that happened and now they are completely cornered


If India does nothing, then AMCA will take 20 years
They don't have a engine
Tejas has been nothing short of a SAGA

So India is spending billions on a 4th gen plane when others are moving to 5th gen

And unless they drop their ego's and learn why Indian airforce was so humiliated last year by PAF, none of this will matter

 

[BonPlan]

Not really, they had already bought the Rafael, they cornered themselves, picking another platform would mean they had to restart all over again

They already have made it with Mirage 2000 and Mig 29K for exemple (ie small fleet) !

 

[BonPlan]

The Indians originally wanted 114 planes, but with TOT and some manufacturing inside India

France refused and in the end the bought 36 directly from France, assuming Tejas would work out, Su57 would work out, AMCA would work out etc

France and Dassault were keen to inked this deal, as we were then searching for a first export customer (after the Moroccan failure).
You all know why it failed : India need Dassault a full warranty on all the planes built by HAL, but without the possibility to control and mastered quality inside HAL. It was just impossible from Dassault point of view. And it would have been the same with Boeing, Saab, Eurojet, LM....

 

[BonPlan]

Su57

India was and is free to make a deal around Su57. It is now flying (not the case in 2015 when the first Rafale were ordered), has pretty good air performance, long legs, has at least some VLO characteristics and, from my point of view, may be a real asset in air superiority for India.