{"id":192297,"date":"2009-04-19T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/19\/indian-drops-rafale-from-mmrca-trials\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T10:22:00","slug":"indian-drops-rafale-from-mmrca-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/19\/indian-drops-rafale-from-mmrca-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Drops Rafale from MMRCA Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial reports from a &#8220;senior Indian Defence Ministry&#8221; are that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4042443&amp;c=ASI&amp;s=AIR\">Dassault was unable to give full technical bid requirements<\/a>, but this is obviously a rather vague and uninformative.<\/p>\n<p>I find this <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> odd.  Dassault and India have a long and established relationship, with India owning and operating Mirage 2000s, and at one point, offered to transfer the whole Mirage 2000 line to India.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that they did not cross their &#8220;I&#8221;s and dot their &#8220;T&#8221;s, and thus was dropped from the Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition is curious.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story.jsp?id=news\/RAFALE041609.xml&amp;headline=Indian%20Rafale%20Out,%20MMRCA%20Trials%20by%20August&amp;channel=defense\">Official MMRCA trials in August<\/a>, with the, Boeing F\/A-18, Lockheed Martin F-16, Eurofighter Typhoon, RSK MiG-35 and Saab Gripen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unofficial reports from a &#8220;senior Indian Defence Ministry&#8221; are that, &#8220;Dassault was unable to give full technical bid requirements, but this is obviously a rather vague and uninformative. I find this very odd. Dassault and India have a long and established relationship, with India owning and operating Mirage 2000s, and at one point, offered to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,964,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-foreign-relations","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}