Dang man-i shall never forgive you from the bottom of my heart for this insult!!!!! One thread I wanted to post for your years and you snatch it from under my feet.
But, knowing my views on the competition-I’ll just say YIPEEEEEE.
As for the selection, I hope we have made the Frogs grovel in terms of ToT. Personally I preferred the Rafale because the French are not prone to squeamishness about their equipment going to war, unlike the rest of continental Europe.
LOL.
I thought of you as soon as I saw the breaking news on Yahoo. I hustled over to FR to see your thread
I thank Indian Chief for posting this.
However my dear friend Sukhoi, you have done a “mahvelous” job (as the Bostonians would say) in keeping us here in the US updated on this contest
Please keep the information flowing and as soon as you see another news item with somewhat different information, please DO start a thread. I want to post on it and recognize the great job you do reporting on South Asia issues, especially the military ones.
I have learnt more about the Indian military from your news links that I could have ever from the web, where a lot of information is either out of date, or jingoistically biased (on the Pakistan or India military forums)
Well done all!
On the topic of the selection, I am dissapointed as I continue to believe that the USA should have won the contest if they entered a better plane than the F-16IN
The French have screwed up every other potential foreign Rafale sale (UAE and Morocco immediately come to mind) because of their inability to negotiate a price.
Hopefully they can negotiate an acceptable deal with the Indian government. I seem to also recall a recent spat over price with some IAF Mirage upgrades.