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India : India floats global tender for 126 fighter jetsEds : Adds material in grafs 9-12 |
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| Author: idrw team | 28 August 2007 | Views: 384 |
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BY : Deutsche Presse-Agentur
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Tuesday floated a global tender for 126 multi-role combat aircraft, in what will be India's biggest-ever defence deal valued at nearly 10 billion dollars, officials said.
Eighteen aircraft would be bought in flyaway condition and 108 would be manufactured in India under licensed production.
A 211-page request for bids has been sent to manufacturers of six aircraft, the US F-16 and the F/A-18 Super Hornet, the Russian MiG- 35, the French Rafale, the European Eurofighter Typhoon and the Swedish Gripen, an official announcement issued by the Defence Ministry stated.
India's defence acquisition council chaired by Defence Minister AK Antony on June 29 cleared the tender that was pending with the Indian government for nearly six years.
The six companies, which have been given six months to respond, will also be asked to sign a confidentiality clause against revealing the contents of the proposals to a third party, the IANS news agency reported.
The tender will also contain an offsets' clause under which 50 per cent of the money paid to the chosen vendor will have to be reinvested in India's defence manufacturing sector.
While the tender relates to 126 aircraft, the number could rise by 80 more aircraft to make up for planes that will be phased out in the period before the new jets start arriving.
Defence officials said it could take as many as six years for the first batch of the 126 planes to arrive.
The proposals from the likely contenders would first be technically evaluated by a professional team to check for compliance with IAF's operational requirements and other conditions, Defence Ministry spokesman Sitanshu Kar said.
Following this, extensive field trials would be carried out to evaluate the performance of the different aircraft. Finally, the commercial proposal of the vendors short-listed after technical and field evaluations would be examined and compared.
The defence ministry's Contract Negotiation Committee (CNC) would then identify the manufacturer to be awarded the order and submit its report to the defence minister, after which the approval from the finance ministry and the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) would be sought. This process would take some two-and-a-half years.
After the contract is inked with the chosen manufacturer, it would take another two-and-a-half years before the first aircraft would arrive.
India is seeking to strengthen its fighter squadron fleet, which has fallen to the lowest-ever level of 32 squadrons from the sanctioned 45 squadrons.
US companies are also in contention for a major arms' deal for the first time in India, which mostly has defence equipment and weaponry of Russian origin.
The most potent fighters in India's combat fleet currently are the Sukhoi-30 MKI fighters, being manufactured indigenously by state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited under transfer of technology from Russia.
India is in a major process of upgrading its defence equipment, and several deals are in the pipeline, making it one of the world's leading arms' importers.
The Defence Ministry says it will be spending more than 30 billion rupees from 2007 through 2012 to procure weapons and defence equipment from foreign countries.
Other defence procurements include 200 helicopters to replace its aging fleet in a deal that experts say could be worth more than 800 million dollars. Another major deal would be for the purchase of 400 new 155-mm guns upgraded to. 52 calibre. |
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IAF's 126 jets tender could get nod FridayRace for IAF's $6.5b deal to beginIndia extends tender deadline for 126 combat jetsDelhi won’t extend jet tender deadlineIAF tender for 126 combat jets in two months |
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| | Registered: 30 August 2007 | ICQ: -- |
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Russia., india and china, and some european countries as well (germany, france, italy etc) must pool their resources to defeat the anglo-american evils in the world.
Now please read this underlined quote from an american paper.
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(From the Christian scince monitor of 12 th Feb,, 2007).
•" Russia is already supplying India with the Sukhoi-30MKI, an advanced "fourth generation" warplane that consistently defeats its Western counterparts, such as the frontline US fighters, the F-15C and F-16. Versions of the Su-30 are also being sold to China, Venezuela, and Malaysia."
(christian scince monitor of 12th feb, 2007).
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Asked about the possible advantage the Gripen held over an aircraft like the F-16, Wagermark said: 'I cannot imagine the IAF, which intends to obtain the highest quality aircraft available in the market, opting for the rather obsolete F-16 over the state-of-the-art Gripen.'
The deal will involve IAF purchasing updated but otherwise obsolete design fighter which are at the fag end of their usefull life cycle in the country of origin for a sum of 6-9 billion dolars. (which means obsolete f-16 and f-18).
so india is thrwoing away 7 billion dollars to please this treacherous prime monister's masters-- the americans. |
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| | Registered: 30 August 2007 | ICQ: -- |
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ndian politicians are reduced to be a pimp or rather prostitute to please their angloamerican masters.
http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2007/09/30/general-warns-against-collapse-u-s-military.html
"General Warns Against Collapse of U.S. Military
September 30, 2007 (LPAC)--Lt. Gen. Bruce Wright, the commander of U.S. forces in Japan, told the Associated Press, in an interview this week that the war in Iraq is reducing the availability of U.S. troops and equipment to meet other contingencies, said that the war is also eating funds that could go towards replacing or upgrading airplanes that are being pushed to their operational limits, the average age of the Air Force's F-15 fighters being 24 years and KC-135 tankers average 46 years old. Meanwhile, the Chinese have been investing heavily in improving their military with state-of-the-art fighters built in their own factories or purchased from Russia and an air defense system that Wright says would be "difficult if not impossible" for U.S. fighters to penetrate. "Our planes are much older than the planes they would be matched against," Wright said. Wright stressed that he is "positive" about efforts to increase engagement with China but he said that the Chinese military buildup is "disconcerting." -------"
http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/breaking_news/2007/07/05/new_accomplice_BAE.asp
New Accomplice of Cheney/Bandar: Spotlight on British Cabinet Secretary in Blocking BAE Probe
Increase Decrease
July 5, 2007 (LPAC)--An investigative spotlight is being put on a British senior servant who helped block the Serious Fraud Office's investigation of alleged bribery of Saudi officials by BAE Systems' massive Al Yamamah arms deal.
Sir Richard Mottram, who is currently the Cabinet's Permanent Secretary for Intelligence, Security and Resilience, according to today's Daily Telegraph , was involved in closing down the investigation. In fact Richard Wardle of the SFO, told the Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee last week that he stopped his investigations after being shown memos on the security threat from the prime minister offices, the attorney general and "papers from Sir Richard Mottram ".
The problem with Mottram's involvement is that fact that he held positions in Ministry of Defence in the past where he was very knowledgeable of negotiating the Al Yamamah project. --------" |
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