If Rafale were produced and maintained by India then maybe yes. But Dassault is in charge of the maintenance. If you switch up the serial number then it is going to complicate the history on a particular aircraft and probably violate warranty.
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If Rafale were produced and maintained by India then maybe yes. But Dassault is in charge of the maintenance. If you switch up the serial number then it is going to complicate the history on a particular aircraft and probably violate warranty.
That'd be switching in the records. I'm talking just the paint job, temporarily. If anything, it benefits the image of Dassault
If and when people leak evidence that they’ve been doing this then it looks even worse for Dassault. If it really is that easy you think BJP wouldn’t have attempted it?
Is there any timetable for the delivery? I imagine the order queue for Meteor's might be as long as the order queue for Rafales.
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Wonder if France will get any RE magnets from China to fulfill that order....
So they didn't ordered the Rafale with Metoer, originaly in MRCA contract?
That was wonderful procurment.
That was wonderful procurment.
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Pulling that trick out of the hat would be impresive.
They probably bought the entire Rafale munitions package, so Hammer, SCALP, and Meteor. But it's very common for this kind of purchase to put all its money into the sexy planes, and not enough into the consumables. For example Taiwan bought over a hundred F-16s, and the AMRAAM is the most important missile for that platform. So do you know how many AMRAAMs Taiwan has? It's 200!
I can only conjecture, but I suspect that India was in the same boat so their stockpile of Meteor missiles is very shallow. We didn't see any Meteors on the aircraft downed on May 7, but we shouldn't have expected to begin with. The Meteors would have been carried by the Rafales the cover mission, and Pakistan said that they only targetted the Rafales that performed strike missions.