Much wailing and gnashing of teeth today about the ‘win’ of the Dassault Rafale in the Indian Multi Role Combat Aircraft competition. In all fairness, one can see the advantages of the Rafale for India, they have a fleet of Mirages and a long track record of working with the French, plus of course it is obvious that the technical [...]
Troubling times for BAE and the Eurofighter. Number 1 Germany is looking to offload some of its surplus Eurofighters to Eastern European nations which on face value might not look relevant but these countries might have opted for new build Typhoons as an outside option in preference to the Gripen or other design. Number 2 India has reportedly delayed the [...]
In the next few months we might know if Typhoon has won the Indian and Japanese fighter competitions. A lot has been written about the Indian Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) competition and it is now a straight run off between Typhoon and Rafale. The recent escorting of the Indian Prime Ministers aircraft into Austria by a pair of Typhoons [...]
Another guest post from Gabrielle Typhoon, the numbers The Typhoon programme, numbers and tranche system is not the easiest of things to follow, so I think I’ll start by making some clarity over the numbers first of all. It is worth remembering that, back in the 80s when the programme was being started up, Germany and the UK were planning [...]
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