tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post8305291611887955997..comments2024-03-28T05:22:10.255-07:00Comments on Broadsword by Ajai Shukla - Strategy. Economics. Defence.: Rafale deal: secrecy pact renewed in March, but cost details already revealedBroadswordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076780076240598482noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-50306766752936321462018-10-03T04:38:28.150-07:002018-10-03T04:38:28.150-07:00Government still has not commented why HAL has bee...Government still has not commented why HAL has been left out of the deal inspite of all the hurly burly of MAKE IN INDIA.How come the new company is the joker in the pack?chiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14636594350502599602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-88360006411161584492018-08-02T05:27:27.368-07:002018-08-02T05:27:27.368-07:00rafael deal with CAG. now CAG for governer of j&am...rafael deal with CAG. now CAG for governer of j&k. impartial audit secured.<br /><br />offer of lucrative post retirement appointments to high constitutional authorities like judiciary, CAG ,Election Commissioners so as to affect their independence while on jobAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06765576311238317435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-22897380922557744002018-07-24T08:52:22.516-07:002018-07-24T08:52:22.516-07:00Plain vanilla cost comparison between UPA and BJP ...Plain vanilla cost comparison between UPA and BJP Purchase price of rafale can be done by CAG.Vikram_prasadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06198432511981448264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-33567567260498444562018-07-23T06:32:58.574-07:002018-07-23T06:32:58.574-07:00Omly enemy of country would like to know weaponry ...Omly enemy of country would like to know weaponry detsils <br />Who are weAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270854906856233350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-54987112456528387552018-07-22T16:51:13.032-07:002018-07-22T16:51:13.032-07:00Circumventing HAL and handing it over to a brother...Circumventing HAL and handing it over to a brotherly industrialist of PM's choice with zero experience in aircraft assembling proves Rahul's point beside other imbroglios that point the needle towards a potential scam.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12834742003857247762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-40141945170507663092018-07-22T10:31:52.671-07:002018-07-22T10:31:52.671-07:00IAF is running short of 160-180 fighter Jet and Co...IAF is running short of 160-180 fighter Jet and Congress is playing with the national security .Can't imagine a 100 years old party backstabbing the country with all its vested interestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-37799531102781970572018-07-22T04:30:58.972-07:002018-07-22T04:30:58.972-07:00If all these details are available , what is every...If all these details are available , what is everyone trying to prove ? Where is the problem ?<br /><br />There is no bribery involved , the way you have written the article. Yes evey industrial deal will have confidentiality clause. The defenxe more so . Do you think india will sell a Tejas without a confidentiality clause ( even if it is a special export veriosn one ).<br />If it does , will bloggers like you stand aside and watch ?<br /><br />The scope of supply is different from MMRCA. That deal was never signed, so we cannot even speculate the prices.<br />It is like some one saying tomatoes cost 25 paisa a kilo, but having been able to buy even one !<br /><br />All companies (from cycle to airplanes) will ensure R&D spend is a part the price of the product in some way , they have to. <br />Common sense. The manufacturing cost of Rafale is about 75-80 million euro as per french parliament (varies by year and model). The R&D cost is some 70-80 million euro per plane. So our price will be between 75 and 150 million euro, depending on negotiations and how France plans to recover its investments. <br /><br />Why is everyone trying to prove a scam or incompetence where there is none. <br />There are parliamentary rules while making allegations of this kind, are they followed ?<br /> I just parliament also pulls up loose mouthed bloggers too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-14846076829700364462018-07-22T01:26:17.578-07:002018-07-22T01:26:17.578-07:00This dodgy behaviour by the BJP makes everyone inv...This dodgy behaviour by the BJP makes everyone involved suspect.<br />It’s a time for the opposition to call for the Parquet National Financier, the French Anti Fraud Authority to come in to independently to carry out investigations into alleged serious and complex fraud, into all the French suppliers involved in this deal. <br />There be no smoke, without FireAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-11078813523466135872018-07-22T00:35:35.850-07:002018-07-22T00:35:35.850-07:00It dawned on somebody suddenly, that if you hide e...It dawned on somebody suddenly, that if you hide everything then it’s easier to keep hidden what needs to be hidden. So what’s already in the open is now being classifiedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-71245571036156335202018-07-21T23:49:30.430-07:002018-07-21T23:49:30.430-07:00THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL
Broadsword here, summar...THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL<br />Broadsword here, summarised the fraud landscape.<br />with the ‘investigative mind-set’<br />of the Financial investigator the forensic accountant.<br />But the exact transaction<br />(amongst the many ancillary purchases around the Rafael deal) <br />is more elusive, buried in the intricate detail, <br />something will not add up if investigated forensically. <br />Something, <br />someone <br />wants hidden<br />The price, the hook <br />to fish<br />It out<br />Ugh! The greed!<br />Even by those whose coffers already swollen from India’s billionaires.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-44509007516317898462018-07-21T22:14:04.979-07:002018-07-21T22:14:04.979-07:00Today the US STEALTH FIGHTER COULD BE PURCHASED AT...Today the US STEALTH FIGHTER COULD BE PURCHASED AT SIMILAR COSTS....<br /><br />THE NEXT TENDER COULD SEE A LOWER BID FROM RAFALEVikram_prasadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06198432511981448264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-5246437827697293992018-07-21T22:02:54.111-07:002018-07-21T22:02:54.111-07:00We could have got 126 fighters and could have had ...We could have got 126 fighters and could have had upgraded them to new specs<br /><br />But today we have 36 SUPER RAFALE AT 1600CR PER UNIT <br /><br />PERHAPS THE CHINA factor forced the govt in 2016Vikram_prasadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06198432511981448264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-64666243413958185342018-07-21T21:07:16.965-07:002018-07-21T21:07:16.965-07:00Sir,is the 75% serviceability clause is applicable...Sir,is the 75% serviceability clause is applicable 5 yrs after the delivery of 1st aircraft or the last aircraft or for individual aircraft as and when it's delivered ? Many thanks for the lucid article.Nikhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06492665757729542849noreply@blogger.com