tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post3166379493600928732..comments2024-03-29T05:44:18.835-07:00Comments on Broadsword by Ajai Shukla - Strategy. Economics. Defence.: Air Chief expects Rafale contract by mid-2013Broadswordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076780076240598482noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-33314616177139298542013-02-14T02:58:21.320-08:002013-02-14T02:58:21.320-08:00everyone who talks of HAL/DRDO failures some how t...everyone who talks of HAL/DRDO failures some how talk of getting cuts from elsewhere? Well buy what from HAL? A Trainer that they denied the IAF and got dozens killed because of their usurping IAF money? Or the INSAS that jams more than it firs and is outmatched by terrorists. The kaveri engine fiasco,the arjun tank fiasco. I was seing a programe on which Dr Saraswat said something about spiraling performance where in buy mark 1 and mark 2 onwards things will imprve.<br /><br />Now when mark 1 is outdated how do you fight with it or do you ask the enemy to only fight with machinery at par with us? It shows lack of concern for those getting killed, it shows arrogance as this attitude expects soldiers to get killed for you for free and with your negligence.<br />The IAF did not get cuts NOR A PlANE ...either from HAL nor did the iAF get a plane from elsewhere due to HALS/DRDO cheating that they will deliver...BUT GOT ITS PILOTS KILLED DUE TO HALS FAILURE.Apart frm it , the IAF had to use fighters as trainers,causing losses and bad name to the fighter a/c<br />rustomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-85240733740788996772013-02-13T01:01:29.131-08:002013-02-13T01:01:29.131-08:00@Abhiman
Then how everyone will get their cut if ...@Abhiman<br /><br />Then how everyone will get their cut if they buy from HAL?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-3887390306146002092013-02-12T10:04:40.592-08:002013-02-12T10:04:40.592-08:00Reliance is new to manufacturing which is a differ...Reliance is new to manufacturing which is a different ball game. Tata and Mahindra are not prepared. Dessault has been given to understand that in this country reliance can manipulate any deal so this tie up. This shows that home work of Dessault is not good.Rajenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-23003924782491470902013-02-12T05:54:26.308-08:002013-02-12T05:54:26.308-08:00@Abhiman,
you forgot Pakfa-50 or FGFA, and with ...@Abhiman, <br /><br />you forgot Pakfa-50 or FGFA, and with the current status of Sitara-36, Looks like we will be buying another trainer too. so probably no other purchase after 25-30 years,may beInt64https://www.blogger.com/profile/01823375639414441710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-18118547547056386822013-02-11T07:32:20.781-08:002013-02-11T07:32:20.781-08:00Sign it before the Lok sabha Elections.Sign it before the Lok sabha Elections.sentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07792930209367688998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-91845764355195829872013-02-11T00:44:51.857-08:002013-02-11T00:44:51.857-08:00@Abhiman...
with phorein deals... AM's get th...@Abhiman... <br />with phorein deals... AM's get their... share of... fat juicy cuts... that why... PV was so pushy... to sign... he was around... don't belive... ask deepak... he got... adrarsh flat also...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-8584854125102933412013-02-09T08:24:09.068-08:002013-02-09T08:24:09.068-08:00It is a crying shame that after 65 years of indepe...It is a crying shame that after 65 years of independence (and over 75 years of HAL's existence), India still has to import fighter jets, like a banana republic.<br /><br /><b>It is hoped that Rafale and PAK-FA are the last purchases of fighter jets that India ever makes. The ball is in the IAF's court. It must decide between taking the easy way out of imports, or flying the turbulent patch of indigenization.</b>Abhimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-51658256049743738722013-02-08T23:12:45.068-08:002013-02-08T23:12:45.068-08:00Unbelievable! Dassault couldn't find any other...Unbelievable! Dassault couldn't find any other company! Reliance is a 'chor' company. It should've been Tata or Mahindra. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-56094068078003905612013-02-08T15:44:16.449-08:002013-02-08T15:44:16.449-08:00There is a simple solution - Give the manufacturin...There is a simple solution - Give the manufacturing and TOT for engines and avoinics to Reliance/Dassault with Reliance being the major stakeholder and the final assembly to HAL. All critical components should be made by the joint venture, ensuring the rise of a new defense company and HAL gets its due as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-75688409245142126722013-02-08T08:59:43.509-08:002013-02-08T08:59:43.509-08:00Wrong, dubious, mallicious reporting everywhere......Wrong, dubious, mallicious reporting everywhere....Vested interests at play everywhere....When has IAF chief said that MMRCA deal is expected to be signed by May/June this year...Read the first para of the below article take from the blog of reputed defense journalist Shiv Aroors' blog...Incidentally Shiv Aroor is a good friend of Ajai....<br /><br />http://livefist.blogspot.com/2013/02/hope-to-sign-m-mrca-deal-by-year-end.html<br /><br />My analysis: Forget about mid/end 2013, this deal will NEVER be signed...To sign a deal of such magnitude needs backbone and vertebrae which the current government does not have....Instead it will wait till end 2013 somehow delaying the deal which it has been doing for the last 5 years and then it will say that the election code of conduct has come into force and so we can't take any decissions. They know they will loose in 2014, so probably NDA will come and try to sign it but since they are no different, ADA/DRDO will be able to sell their dreams about Tejas/AMCA to them successfully and MMRCA will be sent to coffin....<br /><br />But, isn't it the same person(IAF chief) who 'expected' the dealto be signed in 2012? By the way, haven't we heard many air chiefs preceeding Mr.Browne who badly wanted these 126 jets to become part of IAF????Rahul(Kolkata)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-62914989554746857812013-02-08T08:15:23.575-08:002013-02-08T08:15:23.575-08:00Arre shukla....kab contract sign hoga...kab humari...Arre shukla....kab contract sign hoga...kab humari dukan par meethe ka order aayega? Humne special kesar ke pede aur moti ke ladoo bana kar rakhhe hain bhai....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-9267439271565240982013-02-08T07:54:01.069-08:002013-02-08T07:54:01.069-08:00@8 February 2013 19:48...
remember 1962 iaf... ??...@8 February 2013 19:48... <br />remember 1962 iaf... ???... same planning... continuing... have assets... in showcases... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-78166403394980665772013-02-08T06:18:07.715-08:002013-02-08T06:18:07.715-08:00Isn't he the same guy who expected the contrac...Isn't he the same guy who expected the contract before the end of 2012. What a joke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-65392262249276783062013-02-08T04:54:40.468-08:002013-02-08T04:54:40.468-08:00look at the above pic. LCA belongs to another era....look at the above pic. LCA belongs to another era. It is a jet of the 1970s...comparable to mirage IIIs, no wonder IAF in their right mind do not want to touch this with a barge pole. IAF are better off ordering another 100 su-30s. raw13noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-1131588283821342062013-02-08T02:25:41.105-08:002013-02-08T02:25:41.105-08:00@Ajai sir
i would say
As per RfP HAL is the fina...@Ajai sir<br /><br />i would say<br /><br />As per RfP HAL is the final assembler anyway its always been a screw driver player with regard to imported systems. <br /><br />It doesnt have a big R&D setup and whatever it makes like HTT40 are rejected outright. <br /><br />As for Dassualt-Reliance JV i will say certain parts could and should be sourced from the JV if it helps in faster completion a jet.<br /><br />Sometime back heard France wants India to use option of 63 more jets now itself, will that help bring down prices ? if they do then its the best that can happen.<br /><br />Sometime back i heard the Rafale jet deal will touch 99000 cr, if so it easily means no. of Rafales will touch 220 atleast. the more the better.<br /><br />lets keep our fingures crossed and hope for best<br /><br />thanks <br /><br />Joydeep Ghoshjoydeep ghoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00038225081192821456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-35542523861123917642013-02-07T22:43:59.702-08:002013-02-07T22:43:59.702-08:00Why does reliance poke itself everywhere??
We saw...Why does reliance poke itself everywhere??<br /><br />We saw what happened with the Delhi airport express.....<br /><br />While private sector is the need of the hour, i dont think reliance will be RELIABLE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-45967387747872911782013-02-07T22:40:04.855-08:002013-02-07T22:40:04.855-08:00ambanis... they only know... sell... plunder... Th...ambanis... they only know... sell... plunder... The Nation... Prime Ex: KG D6... another HDW deal... in the making...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com