Indian Navy picks Korean Kangnam’s mine hunters
The navy and the defense ministry have identified South Korea's Kangnam Corporation to be L1 [Lowest bidding and technically qualified] for the procurement of eight such vessels. The post Indian Navy...
View ArticleThe Long Road to the MMRCA Shortlist
With the commercial bids of the MMRCA-6 vendors scheduled to expire by the end of this month and the ministry under pressure to move on the tender process, StratPost looks at the outstanding issues...
View ArticleGraphic: #ChopperScam Timeline
Shruti Pushkarna puts together a graphic representation of the process of selection of the AgustaWestland AW101 helicopter by the Indian Air Force (IAF), on the basis of the White Paper issued by the...
View ArticleIndia may need to walk away from Rafale to buy MMRCA
Dassault can wait to have their way in the MMRCA negotiations knowing the aversion of the IAF and defense ministry to a re-tender, unless the defense ministry walks away from the table itself, first....
View ArticleObituary: MMRCA
This piece contains long sentences & might offend those without a sense of humor, Colonel Blimps on TV news, children, patent applicants and other cartoons. Reader discretion is advised. The post...
View ArticleIndia’s VSHORAD program off flight path Defence ministry faces problematic...
Even after two decades since the acquisition case, the Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) search has seen a system absent from trials and failing trials, being passed as technically compliant and...
View Article#RafaleScam: The CAG’s History How the game was fixed for the French fighter
Part I of this three-part analysis is a contextual reading of the February 2019 CAG report and outlines how the IAF's MMRCA contest was fixed to get the Rafale back into the contest after it was...
View ArticleHow the MMRCA was killed #RafaleScam And the Eurofighter was shafted by...
Part II of this analysis examines how the defence ministry's Contract Negotiation Committee (CNC) interpreted an inflated cost analysis of the Eurofighter bid and undervalued the cost of the Rafale...
View Article#RafaleScam: The Crucial Date The date reveals what was known, to whom, and when
Part III of this analysis examines the implications of the single most interesting data point to emerge from the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. This date has never been...
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