Deletedid1 Posted July 17, 2010 Report Posted July 17, 2010 NEW DELHI: Even as the Americans, Europeans and Russians jostle to bag the ‘‘ mother of all defence deals’’ , India too is now pressing the throttle to ensure the contract to acquire 126 new fighters under the Rs 42,000-crore medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) project is inked by mid-2011 . “We will be signing the contract within a year. The flight evaluation report on the bidding aircraft will be ready by this month-end ,” Air Chief Marshal P V Naik said. The IAF, after all, wants to induct the first lot of these 126 fighters by 2014 to retain its combat edge. It is left with just 32 fighter squadrons (each has 12 to 18 jets) at present , down from the ‘‘ sanctioned’ ’ strength of 39.5 squadrons. This when Pakistan is getting new American F-16 s and Chinese fighters , while China assiduously builds new airbases in Tibet and south China. ‘‘ We are ready with the flight evaluation trials (FET) report of the six foreign fighters in contention. Based on it, we are right now generating the staff evaluation report. Both will be submitted to defence ministry by this monthend ,’’ said IAF chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik, in an exclusive interview to TOI. The eagerly-awaited reports, which have evaluated the fighters on as many as 643 technical attributes after gruelling field trials, will be followed by evaluation of offset proposals, opening of commercial bids and the final complex negotiations. The hotly-contested race to bag the lucrative MMRCA project, the largest such programme around the globe, is among F/A-18 ‘Super Hornet’ and F-16 ‘Falcon’ (both US), Gripen (Swedish), Rafale (French), MiG-35 (Russian) and Eurofighter Typhoon jets. ‘‘ We definitely need the MMRCA, LCA (the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft ) and FGFA (the fifth-generation fighter aircraft to be developed with Russia) without any delays to retain our combat edge,’’ said ACM Naik. ‘‘ We also have signed deals for 230 Sukhoi-30 MKI fighters (over 110 have been inducted) with Russia. Another 42 Sukhois will be ordered soon. We want at least 42 fighter squadrons by 2022,’’ he added. All eyes, of course, are on the MMRCA project. “The trials have been conducted in an exemplary, fair and professional manner. We have to be very transparent because the deal is very large,’’ said the IAF chief. ‘‘The amount of data collated in our voluminous and exhaustive reports is phenomenal. They, in fact, can serve as a template to evaluate aircraft by any country,’’ he added. As reported earlier, India is also likely to factor in its geostrategic interests while deciding the MMRCA winner, with PM Manmohan Singh himself holding that large defence deals must be leveraged to serve the country’s larger diplomatic ends.
keko__keka Posted July 17, 2010 Report Posted July 17, 2010 baa.,......oka q.......ee fighter jets manakemanna real time use avutaya......leka Peace can be brought only by muscle power antava sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink
Deletedid1 Posted July 17, 2010 Author Report Posted July 17, 2010 [quote author=keko__keka link=topic=82302.msg868982#msg868982 date=1279398223]baa.,......oka q.......ee fighter jets manakemanna real time use avutaya......leka Peace can be brought only by muscle power antava sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink[/quote]real time lo ante....avi war kosam kada ba konedi.... and I agree with your second point
keko__keka Posted July 17, 2010 Report Posted July 17, 2010 [quote author=BulletBabu link=topic=82302.msg868986#msg868986 date=1279398334]real time lo ante....avi war kosam kada ba konedi.... and I agree with your second point[/quote]i mean US and uk.ETC..........vallu konte.....iraq and afgan wars ki use avutai kada.....manollu sesdi kupli pakistan tho tappa inko yuddam seyaru......allakosam inni vela kotlu sepnd seyatam correct e naa sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink
Deletedid1 Posted July 17, 2010 Author Report Posted July 17, 2010 [quote author=keko__keka link=topic=82302.msg868997#msg868997 date=1279398574]i mean US and uk.ETC..........vallu konte.....iraq and afgan wars ki use avutai kada.....manollu sesdi kupli pakistan tho tappa inko yuddam seyaru......allakosam inni vela kotlu sepnd seyatam correct e naa sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink[/quote]ippudu kontaka pote yuddam avchinappudu vadataniki mana deggara emi undavau kada
buridibaba Posted July 17, 2010 Report Posted July 17, 2010 antha lokakalyanam korake nayan................[img]http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k379/NFDB/Brahmanandam%20-3/th_brahmi72.gif[/img]
Deletedid1 Posted July 17, 2010 Author Report Posted July 17, 2010 [quote author=buridibaba link=topic=82302.msg869020#msg869020 date=1279398983]antha lokakalyanam korake nayan................[img]http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k379/NFDB/Brahmanandam%20-3/th_brahmi72.gif[/img][/quote][img width=160 height=120]http://i37.tinypic.com/2i4z14.gif[/img]
buridibaba Posted July 17, 2010 Report Posted July 17, 2010 [quote author=BulletBabu link=topic=82302.msg869023#msg869023 date=1279399047][img]http://i37.tinypic.com/2i4z14.gif[/img][/quote][img width=120 height=88]http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k379/NFDB/Brahmanandam%20-3/th_brahmi71.gif[/img]ee baba nee anumanisthunava........
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