Rafale News

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Ghaziabad firm Samtel Display Systemsset to fly with Rafale

...Though the modalities of the deal are yet to be worked out, the multibillion-dollar deal will turn out to be an important cog for the company and the way India is seen globally.

"The 126 aircraft MMRCA deal standing at $10.4 billion is the biggest defense deal in the history of the country. Samtel will be supplying its cockpit displays to Dassault, makers of the French Rafale," informed Kaura. The exe director explained, "Dassault has stakes in Thales which is also a French company. Samtel-Thales Joint Venture will be supplying the cockpit displays to Dassault."...

...The aircrafts will be loaded with Infra Red Search and Track (IRST) System, a highly advanced technology that is capable of detecting an enemy aircraft even at a distance of 80 kilometers. Unlike the earlier technologies, IRST is stealthy, as it emits nothing. Airborne radars installed in the aircrafts emit elect6ronic beams and thus give its position to the enemy.

Mr Kaura said, "Thales has the technology but the production will be done in our facility." Thales is the sixth largest defense equipment manufacturer in the world with an estimated value of Rs 80,000 crore...

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...w/12082705.cms

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Forbes India - Rafale Revolution in Indian Airspace

The Rafale deal has the potential to either make or break the country’s future in aerospace manufacturing

India’s defence procurement orders are a game for the patient. For over five years, a bunch of companies with ambition to grab a chunk of offsets that would accrue to our fledgling aerospace industry have awaited the decision on the multi-role fighter aircraft. The suspense ended when French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation’s fighter plane Rafale was chosen as the preferred bidder...

http://forbesindia.com/article/speci...#ixzz1nlsF4tGw

[Olybrius]

Rafale will best meet India’s security needs
India and France must revive their pre-1984 operational cooperation in the Indian Ocean now that Rafale has been chosen for the IAF

Read more: http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/item/51006-rafale-will-best-meet-india’s-security-needs.html

[Olybrius]

Rafale M , Hyeres naval air base:



http://pics-aeronef.discutfree.com/t25p350-rafale-marine
http://www.netmarine.net/aero/bases/hyeres/index.htm

[Olybrius]

HAL rejig in Rafale run-up
The Telegraph , Feb 29

Defence minister A.K. Antony today asked public sector aircraft-maker Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to restructure itself to prepare for a boom in business.

Since India decided to open exclusive negotiations with French aircraft maker Dassault Aviation for its Rafale multi-role combat plane for an estimated $18 billion, HAL would have to re-orient its business for strategic alliances and joint ventures. HAL would be the main systems-integrator of the 108 aircraft that would be assembled in the country.

HAL, a defence public sector undertaking, is the only company in the country capable of assembling and building fighter aircraft through transfer of technology.

Speaking to members of the parliamentary consultative committee attached to the defence ministry, Antony said HAL should partner with Defence Research and Development Organisation and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to develop aircraft, engines and systems indigenously.
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From:
http://www.telegraphindia.com/112030...y_15198458.jsp
More:
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/art...e%2C-fgfa.html

[Olybrius]

Baynuna Group's website:

For the record , Baynuna Group is the Emirati group which has several joint ventures with Dassault , Thales , Safran... in order to support "UAE Rafales". Baynuna's CEO is Gen. (Ret) Khalid Abdulla Al Bu-Ainnain , former commander of the Emirates' air force and air defense.




Website with infos about JV , screensaver ...:
http://www.baynunagroup.net/index.htm

About Khalid Al Bu-Ainnain:
http://www.weforum.org/contributors/...-al-bu-ainnain

[Olybrius]

France To Renovate Libyan F1s, Provide Training
DefenseNews , March 01

ARIS — France will renovate Libya’s small fleet of Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jets and train its personnel as part of a defense cooperation agreement, Ministry of Defense spokesman Gérard Gachet said March 1.
“The collaboration with the Air Force is one of the major components of future military cooperation between France and Libya, through the restoring to condition of the Libyan armed forces’ Mirage F1 and the training of personnel,” Gachet told journalists.
A renovation of the French-built fighters was among the agreements made during a Feb. 24-26 visit to Libya by French Defense Minister Gérard Longuet, Gachet said.

Longuet’s visit was not aimed at selling French defense equipment, such as the Rafale fighter, but to help Libya evaluate its military needs and set the basis for cooperation, Gachet said.
France tried to sell the twin jet fighter to Col. Moammar Gadhafi soon after the West restored relations with Libya in 2005.
Libya has a fleet of some 12 Mirage F1 ground attack fighters, two of which were flown to Malta by dissident Air Force pilots when the uprising against Gadhafi began a year ago.
Those two Mirages were restored and flown back to Libya by French-trained Libyan pilots Feb. 22, a symbolic but essential operation that signaled Paris’ determination to build cooperation with the Libyan Air Force, Gachet said.
A planned French restoration of the small Mirage fleet and training for Libyan flight crews and technical staff was being studied, he said.
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From:
http://www.defensenews.com/article/2...text|FRONTPAGE

[Olybrius]

Rafale M , Landivisiau naval air base:



From:
http://www.holding-point.fr/affichag...cherche=1&f=28

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France is strengthened in the competition to sale fighters to Brazil
AFP , March 1

BRASILIA - The cancellation of the purchase of Brazilian aircraft by the United States and India's decision to buy French Rafale aircraft influence Brazil's decision on the purchase of 36 fighters and favours Paris in the competition, according to government sources and analysts.

The U.S. Air Force abruptly announced on Tuesday the cancellation of a contract of 355 million dollars for the purchase of 20 Super Tucano aircraft from Brazil's Embraer, after a legal action of its local competitor Hawker Beechcraft Corp..

The Brazilian government "received with surprise" the U.S. decision to cancel this contract, and believes that the initiative does not "contribute to deepening defense relations between the two countries", said on Thursday the Foreign Ministry. That comes a month before the visit of President Rousseff to Washington, scheduled for April 9.

The cancellation "will affect" and "will be taken into account" in the Brazilian decision to buy 36 fighter planes for $ 5 billion [..], a Brazilian government source told AFP.

The head of the U.S. Air Force, Norton Schwartz, called on Wednesday as a "shame" the cancellation and pledged to quickly renew the bid.
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"If Brazil's decision about the fighters was this week, the F18 aircraft would have lost many points, but one do not know what will happen next, so in the long term it is difficult to define the impact", said the expert.

But for the military analyst and retired general Alvaro Pinheiro, "everything will depend on negotiations made with India to buy the Rafale :final price and real technology transfer. "Brazil has not defined the fighter (which will be acquired), [Brazil] favours the Rafale, but it does not mean it's won," he told AFP.

Brazil requires from manufacturers to transfer technology and the ability to produce the aircraft in the country. In this regard, analysts have always pointed out the french as favorites, since Brazilians are suspicious of U.S. intentions. But as to prices, they note that the best are the United States.

Google translated from:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...09b1860cc0d.f1

[Olybrius]

New book : Harmattan, narratives and revelations.



Ordered. I expect some interesting infos about the Rafale.

http://www.amazon.fr/Harmattan-Révél.../dp/291524345X

[Olybrius]

Combat Aircraft Magazine, April 2012:

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Selection of Rafale for mega defence contract final: Pallam Raju
Economic times , March 2

BANGALORE: India on Friday made it clear that selection of French Rafale for the multi-billion dollar 126 fighter combat aircraft deal was final and said it does not expect contract negotiations to go wrong.

"Decision is final as far as selection is concerned," said Union Minister of State for Defence, M M Pallam Raju, when asked about Britain's statement that it would try to persuade India to look at Eurofighter Typhoon, made by a four-nation consortium, which lost the race, and New Delhi's decision was only "preliminary and not final"

Raju said contract negotiations are on with Dassault Aviation, the makers of Rafale, adding, "after all negotiations are complete, can we say that it's final".

Aked if that meant that the deal is open, Raju said: "No". "As of now, Rafale has been been finalised. That's the final thing," he said and added, "hope nothing will go wrong (in contract negotiations)".
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From:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/selection-of-rafale-for-mega-defence-contract-final-pallam-raju/articleshow/12111498.cms
or
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chann...l-minister-586

[Olybrius]

UAE rules out Rafale deal soon
Emirati leaders are said to have no intention of signing a deal for the Rafale aircraft on the eve of the presidential elections in France.

http://www.tacticalreport.com/view_n...deal_soon/2532
We'll see...

For the record:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...=1#post6056638

[leloup46]

la ferté meeting

[simonov]

just ask rafale prototype photos. thx