Posted on 11/17/2004 7:55:11 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
PTI PRINT EMAIL IAF 'F-16 in race to sell aircraft to IAF'
BANGALORE, NOV 17 (PTI)
America's F-16 aircraft will be in the race for India's new plan to acquire 125 supersonic fighters, a top IAF official said today.
The Indian Air Force will insist on a technology transfer by aircraft manufacturers, including parting with the source code for avionics, Vice Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal S K Malik told reporters here on the sidelines of the 45th annual conference of the Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine.
"We have not shortlisted any aircraft nor discounted any," Malik said.
"We will go global. Perhaps F-16 will be there, (Swedish) Grippen, Mirage 2000 and MiG 29 will be there," he said.
Malik said the qualifying requirements (QR) will be put in place shortly and presentations by the manufacturers invited for the aircraft which will then be followed by the issue of request for proposals (RFP) by the IAF.
"Product support should be guaranteed and uninterrupted, if for any reason there are sanctions on us, spares should be given," he said.
Malik said the manufacturers should transfer the technology for crucial spares and "for the software, the source code should be shared with us as there will be a need for upgradation over a few years." He said the move to go in for multiple vendors was to get better flexibility and cited the difficulty IAF faced during the acquisition of the British Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) from a single vendor.
Malik said the initial process of identifying the aircraft which IAF wants to buy, to replace the ageing MiGs, would take around two years.
Mike
I bet that blows the deal right there... unless our export versions are already compromised.
Sadly, Robert Zoellick, Gregory Mankiw and John Snow will insist on this transfer as well.
The MiG-29M is an excellent fighter, provided the plane has the right avionics and also less smoky engines.
The French have already given the go-ahead for license production if the Mirage is selected-so did a delegation from Lockheed Martin for the F-16.License manufacturing is one thing-India getting what it wants is another-only the Russians,French & Israelis fulfil that criterion.
If the Mig-29M is selected-you can be sure that there will be a lot of French & Israeli avionics in it as has been the practise with most recent Indian fighter upgrades.
There are many advantages to twin-engines, which the F-16 is not. It's getting a little old in the tooth anyway.
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F-16s sold to Arab nations like the UAE(BLK-60) are more advanced than the ones currently in US service-coming with a AESA radar.
Hmm,if twin engines are the criterion,then consider that the Mig-29M has been selected!!both the Grippen & the Mirage-20005 are single engined as both were designed to be in the same league as the F-16 as far as capabilities/roles go.Moreover,these 125 jets are to complement the IAF's long range(twin engined) SU-30MKI fighter-bombers.
The reason why the F-16 will probably lose out is the absolute lack of trust between both sides.
But did the ragheads get source code and "technology transfer" of the avionics (which I believe means they can build the stuff themselves under license)?
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Huh?
The Mirage-a "cropduster wannabe"??
Well try telling that to the airforces of the UAE,Greece,Taiwan & Egypt-all of whom use both the F-16 & Mirage-2000/20005.The Mirage's combat record is no less than that of the F-16.A Mirage-2005 armed with the Mica AAM & Storm Shadow cruise missile or corresponding Israeli weapons(which India is likely to have) can take on most F-16s on any day.
PS-why don't the folks on here restrict their love for the French to the political arena??this looks really childish.
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