Rafale M Deal: India and France to Fast-Track Negotiations After Elections

[Guru Dutt]

ToT was not requested when you purchased M2000.

40 millions : the package was definied by IAF. If it wasn't convenient why ordering ?
In the 40 millions there is part of ToT, an increase in life span and I suppose the HAL work. It is not the Dassault bill.

it dose not matter who was asking for what point was there were heavy kickbacks involved in the Mirage2000 upgrade and that was done by UPA goverment and by using IAF & HAL and arm twisting dassault cause they were ready to transfer the full mirage2000 line to india and talks were already going and had NDA came back to power we could have been making Mirage2000 in india for lesser that 40 million with engine in india ..... but alas we have corruption

 

[paindu]

it dose not matter who was asking for what point was there were heavy kickbacks involved in the Mirage2000 upgrade and that was done by UPA goverment and by using IAF & HAL and arm twisting dassault cause they were ready to transfer the full mirage2000 line to india and talks were already going and had NDA came back to power we could have been making Mirage2000 in india for lesser that 40 million with engine in india ..... but alas we have corruption

I have different take on M2000 production line transfer to India and we made the right choice to not go with that. Operationally, maybe it was good decision to shore up some numbers in short term, however not a strategic long-term decision.

French basically wanted to milk India for outdated fighter and use that money for Rafale R&D. I’ll give you an example, Dassault would have made lot of money whenever India wanted to integrate any home-grown weapon to that platform with exorbitant consulting fees. I’m glad someone has the foresight to see this.

Country the size of India does need a home-grown clean sheet fighter, we have it in Tejas & AMCA and these two may be late, but we’ll get there eventually. When a third world country like India embark on something complex, linear progression is not possible, and I commend India for not throwing away this development and go for foreign fighter as a quick fix. Perfect example is that Danish component in MK1A, I’m glad these things happen, and we keep on indigenising these.

Have a good one.

 

[onlinpunit]

I have different take on M2000 production line transfer to India and we made the right choice to not go with that. Operationally, maybe it was good decision to shore up some numbers in short term, however not a strategic long-term decision.

French basically wanted to milk India for outdated fighter and use that money for Rafale R&D. I’ll give you an example, Dassault would have made lot of money whenever India wanted to integrate any home-grown weapon to that platform with exorbitant consulting fees. I’m glad someone has the foresight to see this.

Country the size of India does need a home-grown clean sheet fighter, we have it in Tejas & AMCA and these two may be late, but we’ll get there eventually. When a third world country like India embark on something complex, linear progression is not possible, and I commend India for not throwing away this development and go for foreign fighter as a quick fix. Perfect example is that Danish component in MK1A, I’m glad these things happen, and we keep on indigenising these.

Have a good one.

We should have bought the M2000 assembly line with all the rights in 1999.