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By Nirad Mudur | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA India and Russia have finalised the Russian PAKFA aircraft —a Sukhoi-T50 fighter aircraft — as the base design model for their $6 billion Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) programme. This has not just dealt a death-knell to any prospects...

The deal to upgrade the existing fleet of 51 Mirage-2000s would be finalized in the coming financial year. Talking to reporters on the second day of the eighth edition of Aero India, Air Chief Marshal PV Naik said India and France had moved closer to the deal in December 2010. The deal has...

# Dassault Rafale seems to be a perfect jet, with a huge Combat radius of 1800 Km, a Maximum payload of 9,500 kg, but it also come with one major problem, it is only operated by the French Air Force & the French Navy, no other country till date has inducted this Jet. Secondly, the AESA Radar...

# Eurofighter Typhoon, the best in its class and the most expensive of all the bidders what the European consortium is offering is "Tranche-3" the latest of the lot. If the EF-2000 (Typhoon) wins the BID, India will be the Fifth Partner for all Eurofighter related developments. :D The Navy...

# The Saab Gripen , a Swedish jet with a Max takeoff weight : 14,300 - 16,000 kg, a Combat radius:1300 km & Maximum payload:5,300 kg. this is far too less as compared to the competitors. :eek: Secondly, JAS Gripen has offered the source code of their AESA radar as part of their bid. :D...

The Third to go will be Boeing F/A-18IN, the Super Hornet is a twin-engine 4.5 generation carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft. The Super Hornet is operated by USAF & the Australian Air Force. The Tragedy with F/A-18IN is that it comes with a Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA)...

The Second to go will be Mikoyan MiG-35, if IAF had to buy a MIG, there would not had been a Tender Process. (Remember there was NO Tender when the Sukhoi 30 MKI was inducted) it was a direct Government to Government Procurement. And the absence of a MIG-35 from the Aero India 2011 is a...

The First Kill would obviously be the F-16IN, though the offered Lockheed Martin F-16IN Super Viper is of block 60/70, a 4.5 generation aircraft as stated by the US officials. It will be more advanced than the F-16 Block 52s that the Pakistan Air Force has. (IAF cannot & will not and take a risk...

# The F-16IN and # The F/A-18IN

The Mother of all Defence Deal to be finalized this year, who do you think, Will Win Indian MRCA competition ? or Should Win? MMRCA contenders are : The Saab Gripen Eurofighter Typhoon Dassault Rafale Mikoyan MiG-35

A number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been engulfed in protests against poverty, corruption and authoritarian regimes.

Russia could deliver the first modernized MiG-29 fighter jet to India as early as in 2011, the head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said on Wednesday. India signed a $960 million contract with Russia in 2008 to upgrade its five squadrons of 69 MiG-29 fighters, which have been in...

MOSCOW, February 8 (RIA Novosti) Russia will exhibit over 80 types of weaponry at the upcoming Aero India 2011 air show, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said in a statement, but the MiG-35 fighter jet will not take part. Aero India-2011, which will be held in the southern city of...

China is a totalitarian nation, with the Communist Party under direct command of the Army, (remember its not the nations army but the Party's) every country that shares boundaries with China had, has and will have Problems. India, Taiwan, Japan, & Vietnam to name a few.:mad:

the experience with (LCA) - Tejas, will help a lot with the MCA project.