{"id":193457,"date":"2008-12-14T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/14\/dassault-goes-hard-sell-on-indian-mmrca-program\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T13:08:00","slug":"dassault-goes-hard-sell-on-indian-mmrca-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/14\/dassault-goes-hard-sell-on-indian-mmrca-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Dassault Goes Hard Sell on Indian MMRCA Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most hotly contested fighter procurement programs in the world right now is the Indian Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) program, which is intended to replace India&#8217;s aging MiG-21s, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-12-08&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/12\/08\/AW_12_08_2008_p60-99712.xml&amp;headline=Dassault+Promises+India+a+Technology+Advantage\">Dassault is very aggressively pursuing this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, Dassault has stated that it has gotten clearance from the French government for near total technology transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally unlike all of the other western competitors, its US content is near zero, and so is not subject to the US export restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>To refresh your memory (more <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/update-on-indian-mmrca-competition.html\">here<\/a>), the competitors are competitors are the MiG-35 (a Mig-29 derivative), Gripen, Rafale, Typhoon, F-16 and F-18E, and my analysis in my earlier posts stands, I think that the Gripen, F-16, F-18E, and Eurofighter are all too tied up in US export restrictions, that the Eurofighter and Rafale are too expensive, which leaves the MiG-35.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the Gripen&#8217;s low cost over its lifetime, it&#8217;s about \u00bd the size of most of the competitors may give it an outside chance, but my money is still on the MiG.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians have been using Russian equipment for about half a century, and the low purchase price and familiarity will mean a lot here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most hotly contested fighter procurement programs in the world right now is the Indian Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) program, which is intended to replace India&#8217;s aging MiG-21s, and Dassault is very aggressively pursuing this. Basically, Dassault has stated that it has gotten clearance from the French government for near total technology &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-193457","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\/193457"}],"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=193457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}