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More to the point, Asia may see some serious ground/air conflicts in the next half century as the US and Europe decay and the Asian region emerges. The requirements of a country like India are quite different to western countries that occasionally get involved in "police actions" where they blow up random camel herders with the help of billion dollar high tech weapon systems. It is however odd they have not gone with more homegrown tech. |
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what are the cost per unit and maintenance costs of a Rafale and Eurofighter?
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I think they made the right decision. It's prbabily easier to work with France when it comes to technology import. They'll build about a hundred of them locally, in India and probabily they have rights to all the tech that goes into it.
The Rafale is also much more suited for ground support than Eurofighter and it's carrier capable. They already have very positive experience with Dassault aircraft, so I think in the end, they made the right decision. :grin: And the mandatory cool Rafale shot.:-P http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/7...8012009417.jpg |
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Yeah how dare they forgot we the British were there um... err...protectorate... lmao |
Congrats India you got the best fighter !
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Of course if the ongoing squabble with Pakistan escalates you may see the new generation of Dassault products taking on the PAF's aging but operational 150 odd Dassault Mirage III's (ex Aussie RAAF I believe) and Mirage V's.
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I admit yours is a much more balanced statement, sorry for been cheeky at my previous post. Eurofighter is a great plane, for what it was developed for. It is unfortunate that somewhere along the timeline, armies requirements changed somewhat and now a lot of armies favour a multi-purpose platform instead of an air superiority plane. @Ploughman: The Rafal is a very beautiful plane, much more good looking than the Eurofighter! "would it've killed Dassault to have made that refuelling probe retractable? " LOL! +1000 ! ~S~ |
Nice to see all that aid money being put to good use.
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