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On the lines of the MMRCA series here on LiveFist, coming up, a series on the IAF’s attack helicopter competition. The official list of contenders: […]
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MMRCA Part 6 – The Typhoon Truth
The Typhoon was the last contender to throw its hat into the MMRCA ring. The Typhoon has huge strengths and huge weaknesses, even though there
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*FLASH* Saab says Gripen still very much IN !
You’re reading it first here on LiveFist. Saab has finally reacted to reports about Israeli Aerospace Industries being forced by the Pentagon to pull out
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JPost: Gripen pushed out of MMRCA?!
Under pressure from the Pentagon, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been forced to back out of a joint partnership with a Swedish aerospace company to
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MMRCA Part 5 – The American Turbo Bug
The F/A-18E/F/IN Super Hornet is a little gem of an aircraft, except it’s hardly little. It’s 30% heavier than the legacy Hornet, and its designation
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MMRCA Part 4 – The French Squall
The Rafale is an intriguing aircraft. Everyone remembers the dramatic way in which Dassault announced in 2006 that it was withdrawing the Mirage-2000-V from the
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MMRCA Part 3 – The Future Fulcrum
The way the Russians have been behaving over a multiplicity of ongoing defence contracts, it would seem as though they had no real interest in
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MMRCA Part 2 – The Swedish Underdog
Saab’s tagline for the Gripen India campaign (“The Independent Choice“) tells you a great deal about the depth of recognition by the company that the
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MMRCA Part 1 – The F-16IN Super Viper
The handful of IAF pilots who got a chance to fly one of the UAE Block 60 Desert Falcons at Yelahanka in February had fantastic
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