{"id":192958,"date":"2009-02-01T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/01\/further-delays-in-indian-mmrca-competition\/"},"modified":"2009-02-01T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T11:32:00","slug":"further-delays-in-indian-mmrca-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/01\/further-delays-in-indian-mmrca-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Delays in Indian MMRCA Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is still no word on when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-01-26&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/01\/26\/AW_01_26_2009_p0354-113109.xml\">when field trials will start for the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft fighter competition<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>One of the issues that complicates this is mother nature: If the demonstrations do not finish by July, then they run into delays as a consequence of the monsoon season.<\/p>\n<p>Current competitors for the medium fighter are the, &#8220;Boeing F\/A-18, Lockheed Martin F-16, Eurofighter Typhoon, Mikoyan MiG-35, Saab Gripen, and Dassault Rafale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s intended to replace their fleets of older model MiG-21s, which are at end of life.<\/p>\n<p>My guess would be the the MiG-35 has the inside track, the Indian AF already has operational experience with the MiG-29, though the least expensive over the life time is very likely the Gripen.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear to me whether SAAB is submitting the base Gripen, or the improved Gripen NG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is still no word on when when field trials will start for the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft fighter competition. (paid subscription required) One of the issues that complicates this is mother nature: If the demonstrations do not finish by July, then they run into delays as a consequence of the monsoon season. Current competitors &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192958"}],"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=192958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}