L'Inde

[TMor]

Pour moi leur histoire ça veut surtout dire qu'ils n'auront pas droit à une super démo.

[Darkjmfr]

A moins que 'Rut' fasse le convoyage du M remplaçant celui qui a eu trop soif ? ça pourrait se faire ça ?

[zx]

Ils ont peur peut etre d'une panne, ils en envoient deux par sécurité.

[xav]

Inde : moteur Kaveri

Le gouvernement Indien semble avoir abandonné ses aspirations à court terme, concernant son moteur

Kaveri. Le programme va se focaliser dorénavant sur la conception d’un turbofan, qui sera prêt

pour équiper le futur avion de combat indien AMCA (Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft). A l’origine, le

moteur devait équiper l’avion de combat léger Tejas.

Aviation Week and Space Technology 17/01

[xav]

Pour moi leur histoire ça veut surtout dire qu'ils n'auront pas droit à une super démo.

x2 A Cormeilles cet été, il y a pas eu photo entre les 2 démos... celle du M étant pas terrible

A moins que 'Rut' fasse le convoyage du M remplaçant celui qui a eu trop soif ? ça pourrait se faire ça ?

Il est qualifié sur M 'Rut' ?

Et surtout peut il faire ses demo dessus? M et C/B n'ont pas le même poids, du coup pas les meme reperes etc... Et je suis certain meme si on n'a jamais su me le confirmer pas les même perfs.

[TOPOLO]

La différence de masse à vide est largement inférieure à la différence de masse KRO due à une durée de vol différente: Il y a moins de difference entre un M, un C et un B avec le même profil de vol, qu'entre deux C, l'un effectuant sa démo juste apres le décollage et un autre qui vient de 200Nm avant sa démo.

[Chaps]

Le F-22 sera au salon Air india 2011.

Petit coup de pression US face aux chinois, au PAK-FA indien et au marché MMRCA?

[alexandreVBCI]

USA : Toutes les restrictions de vente d'arme à l'Inde sont levés.

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5542519&c=AME&s=TOP

Les USA propose de vendre le F-35 à l'inde avec une participation au programme :

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5548948&c=AME&s=AIR

[French Kiss]

On dirait que la visite de Hu Jintao aux US a porte ses fruits... mais les indiens ayant deja un accord avec les russes sur le PAK-FA, AMHA la cavalerie arrive un peu tard.

[ARPA]

Les USA propose de vendre le F-35 à l'inde avec une participation au programme :

Les Indiens sont tellement rapides que dans le processus de décision pour le choix du mirage 2000, il va y avoir une compétition entre F35, Pak FA et J20...

[Oberoth]

India has no plans as of now to either join the US-led joint strike fighter (JSF) programme or buy the F-35 `Lightning-II' fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) when it finally becomes operational.

"We cannot have two types of FGFA. We have already launched preliminary work for our FGFA after inking the $295 million preliminary design contract (PDC) with Russia last month,'' said a top defence ministry official on Friday.

This comes in the wake of comments made by a top Pentagon official, undersecretary of defence for acquisition, technology and logistics Ashton Carter, in Washington that the US was open to Indian participation in its JSF project.

Interestingly, the comments came during a function where an aggressive sales pitch was made for India to select either the American F/A-18 `Super Hornet' ( Boeing) or F-16 `Falcon' ( Lockheed Martin) over their European rivals in the ongoing IAF's medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) contest.

The other 4.5-generation fighters in the hotly-contested race to bag the $10.4 billion MMRCA project, under which 18 jets will be bought off-the-shelf and another 108 will be manufactured in India under transfer of technology, are Eurofighter Typhoon, Swedish Gripen (Saab), French Rafale (Dassault) and Russian MiG-35 (United Aircraft Corporation).

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/With-own-5G-jet-plan-India-rejects-US-offer-/articleshow/7389062.cms

[xav]

Aérospatial de défense : « Les enjeux du marché indien »

Air & cosmos consacre un article aux « enjeux du marché indien » dans le domaine de l’aérospatial de

défense. La France doit lutter contre les partenaires majeurs de l’Inde (Russie, Israël, Etats-Unis). La

France a plusieurs gros contrats en attente de finalisation. Le plus important concerne la modernisation

des 51 Mirage 2000H/TH. New Delhi et Paris négocient également la fourniture des nouveaux armements

qui devront équiper ces Mirage 2000. MBDA veut notamment livrer plusieurs centaines de missiles

Mica. Un autre grand dossier est également en cours : celui du futur missile sol-air courte portée indien

SR-SAM, dont le développement devrait être mené en collaboration avec MBDA. Dans le domaine

air-air, les espoirs à court terme portent sur la vente d’Astraam, dans le cadre de la modernisation

de l’armement des Jaguar indiens en service.

Air & Cosmos 04/02

Un missile à intégrer au Rafale à l'avenir peut etre non?

[French Kiss]

La j'aurais un doute sauf si l'astraam represente un reel interet par rapport au mica IR, par contre un developpement parallele au remplacant du mistral eventuellement sur le SR-SAM...

[Arka_Voltchek]

Un missile à intégrer au Rafale à l'avenir peut etre non?

C'est un missile sol-air... tout est dit

[xav]

je suis trop con, j’avais lu air sol

[zx]

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/02/aero-india-dassault-rafales-first.html

[alexandreVBCI]

BANGALORE, India - Boeing provided a preview of new options available for international customers under the Super Hornet International Roadmap program at the 2011 Aero India defense and aerospace show at Yelahanka Air Station here on Feb. 8.

Improvements include the Next Generation Cockpit outfitted with a new 11-by-19 inch large area display with integrated intuitive graphics and increased situational awareness.

"Basically, it's one big iPad, which provides the pilot with a large increase in display surface area," Boeing test pilot Ricardo Traven said.

Other unique features include improvements in the Hornet's stealth and range a stealthy conformal fuel tank and a conformal enclosed weapons pod, for example. The weapons pod can carry a combination of AIM-120 air-to-air missiles and air-to-ground bombs, with each Super Hornet capable of carrying three pods. The conformal fuel tank also reduces drag.

Range and speed are also increased with the GE-414 Enhanced Performance Engine (EPE).

"When you reduce the drag with the stealthy weapons pod and with an engine with 20 percent more thrust, you greatly increase range," Traven said.

Configuration flexibility improvements include an internal Infra-Red Search and Track (IRST) system and a new missile and laser warning system.

Many of the new features - including AESA radar, EPE and the missile warning system - were included in India's 2008 request for proposals for the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA). New Delhi plans to buy 126 MMRCAs.

Not included in Boeing's MMRCA bid were conformal pods, IRST and the Next Generation Cockpit, due largely to requirement limitations at the time of the submission of proposals, but the systems could be included at a future date, a Boeing representative said.

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5653656&c=ASI&s=SEA

[xav]

^ video postée dans le topic F18

[zx]

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/02/mmrca-contract-by-sept-unless.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Price negotiations for the MMRCA begin in a week or two. I am hopeful of a decision by September this year, unless dissatisfied vendors put a spoke in the wheel (sic)," said Indian Air Force chief PV Naik today at Aero India 2011

the IAF chief announced that the IAF Mirage-2000 upgrade contract would be signed before the end of March this year. "The draft report is with the MoD, it will be concluded this financial year," said the IAF Deputy Chief. Air Chief Naik commented, "It was a very difficult negotiation, but results will now come very fast."

[JASHUGAN]

Le journaliste indien Shiv Aroor est en train d'effectuer un vol sur Rafale B à Aero India :

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/02/rafale-check.html

A suivre pour le compte rendu :)

[FATac]

Le journaliste indien Shiv Aroor est en train d'effectuer un vol sur Rafale B à Aero India :

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/02/rafale-check.html

A suivre pour le compte rendu :)

Le journaliste est revenu sur terre après 46 minutes de vol, et 9G encaissés : http://livefist.blogspot.com/2011/02/46-minutes-9g-in-rafale.html

J'attends avec impatience son compte-rendu.

[Dabohaze]

Lu sur Keypub, des bruits de couloirs:

Making a splash at the Aero India show in Bangalore. Broadsword has learned that the European fighters have taken pole position in the MMRCA competition

It was a no-holds-barred duel at Aero India 2011 for a $10-billion (Rs 45,500 crore) prize. Turn by turn, four of the world’s most advanced fighter aircraft roared into the sky, keenly aware of the watching eyes of Indian ministry of defence (MoD) officials who would decide which of them was best suited for the Indian Air Force’s order of 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA).

Their performances mirrored each fighter’s fortunes in the MMRCA race. In multiple interviews with MoD officials, IAF pilots and vendor representatives, Business Standard has learned exactly where the MMRCA race currently stands. None of the contenders have been officially eliminated in the IAF’s flight evaluation report, but the heavy liabilities that some are carrying have already reduced this contest to an all-European race.

The clearest performance was that of the Russian MiG-35, which has not shown up at all at Aero India 2011. After multiple problems during the flight evaluation trials, it is regarded by the IAF as little more than an upgraded MiG-29. The Russian fighter is effectively out of the race.

Only marginally less dismal was the Lockheed Martin F-16IN Super Viper, which travelled to Bangalore but did not participate in the inaugural aerobatics shoot-out.

Defence minister A K Antony insisted today that political considerations would play no part in the MMRCA selection, but his officials were less diplomatic. “The F-16 is in the race only in name; the US will not be allowed to supply the same aircraft to both India and Pakistan,” said a senior MoD official. “Besides, the F-16 has come to the end of its development cycle. There is no scope for improving it further.”

Lockheed Martin seems to know its India campaign is blighted. Over the past two months, company officials and even the Pentagon, the US defence headquarters, have shifted the focus to the F-35, the fifth generation stealth fighter that Lockheed Martin is developing. But while the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, Ashton Carter, has signalled American willingness to include India in the F-35 programme, the Indian MoD is not persuaded.

On getting a fifth generation fighter from the US, Antony replied, “Already we are engaged with Russia to produce a fifth generation fighter…. No other country has offered us these technologies in the past. We are way ahead now [in the partnership with Russia]. There is no question of going back.”

The other American contender, the F/A-18 Super Hornet, regaled spectators with a superb display of combat manoeuvring, Showcasing its history as a combat fighter, the F/A-18 was the only contender that flew with missiles fitted under its wings, which is avoided in aerobatics because of the resulting drag. But though the Super Hornet was the tightest turner, its aerobatics were conducted at slow speeds. That sluggishness is also true of its campaign in India.

“We scored the F/A-18 poorly during flight evaluation,” says an IAF officer who was closely involved.

That leaves the three European contenders: the Eurofighter (from a four-country consortium), the Dasault Rafale (from france) and the Saab Gripen (Sweden). Each of them put up a superb display of high-speed aerobatics, performing loops, barrel rolls, and spells of inverted flying that clearly pushed the boundaries of the aircrafts’ flight envelopes.

The Gripen showed enormous agility in its vertical handling, something that would allow it to climb above the enemy fighter in a dogfight, to an advantageous killing position. At the end of his display, the Gripen’s pilot displayed how little runway the fighter needs to land, stopping dead in barely 900 ft.

But IAF officers point out two key drawbacks to the Gripen’s campaign: “The Gripen’s AESA radar is the least developed of all the MMRCA contenders; and, being a single-engine fighter, it carries significantly less weaponry than the big twin-engine contenders.”

The twin-engine advantage was immediately evident when the Rafale and the Eurofighter took to the skies, lashing the spectators with a blast of sound. There was little to choose between both those aircraft, their High-G (sharp turn); High-Alpha (slow flying) aerobatics leaving the spectators clapping.

“The MMRCA contest is now between the Eurofighter and the Rafale,” says an IAF officer associated with the flight evaluation. “It will boil down to price. But if the MoD accepts a smaller fighter, with a radar that has some way to go, the economically-priced Gripen could be the dark horse that wins.

-> http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2011/02/european-fighters-lead-mmrca-race.html

[Philippe Top-Force]

Une rumeur circule comme quoi la MMRCA competition serait pour mars 2012.

Que l'Inde a refusé l'offre F35.

Que EADS pourrait à nouveau remporter les 197 Fennec et les 6 MRTT.

[Oberoth]

Pour le F-35 c'est même officiel, les Indiens ont remballés assez violemment les Américains sur se sujet.

[glitter]

Il s'agit de 2 rafale M.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=1702873&postcount=103

Pas cool, des voyous ont taggué "armée de l'air" sur le Rafale monoplace là bas.

Lu sur Keypub, des bruits de couloirs:

Making a splash at the Aero India show in Bangalore. Broadsword has learned that the European fighters have taken pole position in the MMRCA competition

Il y auras eu tellement de rumeurs en Inde que je parie qu'on va même pas remarquer tout de suite lorsque le gagnant seras annoncé.