Congratulations to Dassault!!! 10.4 billion Indian Air Force Rafale contract!

[Sven]

We're still waiting on the F-35 here in The Netherlands. Incredibly expensive, but from the looks of it, it's also a very good multi task plane.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Sven

We're still waiting on the F-35 here in The Netherlands. Incredibly expensive, but from the looks of it, it's also a very good multi task plane.

Well apparently the US never "offered" the F35 to India and was merely being nice by allowing the Indians to look at it, hence it was never actually "rejected" by the indians.

Something like that ....

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/f16-f18-u.../226635-3.html

Meanwhile here in Australia the RAAF is looking at outlaying a fair bit on more Super Hornets as the F35 appears to be less and less like to actually turn up any time before teh end of the decade.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...hedule-367523/

[Jaws2002]

Well, F16 and F18 performance was not exactly unbeatable from what i picked up here and there about the competition. Read somwhere this morning that during the testing, after landing at some high altitude base in Himalaya, the F18 was not able to take off again.

Only the Rafale and Typhoon passed all the tests thrown at them by the Indian test pilots.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

Meanwhile here in Australia the RAAF is looking at outlaying a fair bit on more Super Hornets as the F35 appears to be less and less like to actually turn up any time before teh end of the decade.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...hedule-367523/

Pitty we didn't keep out F-111's flying! Cold-war dinosaur and all, is there anything out that can really replace them?

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Pitty we didn't keep out F-111's flying! Cold-war dinosaur and all, is there anything out that can really replace them?

Sukhoi has a few models that would do just fine.