That was something we would never have expected to see or hear about in International Diplomacy or Relations. Especially when it concerns matters of National Defence, we would not expect a country to open up and share decision making process and threat evaluations.
But hey, what do we know! Reports suggest that Brazil has approached India to share with them, the evaluation and reasoning behind the decision to go in for Dassault Rafale fighters in the MMRCA tender. And India has agreed to share the details behind the Rafale selection, with Brazil.
In return Brazil will provide India with an exclusively developed catalogue of NATO weapons, of interest to both countries.
Well, the BRICS and IBSA, south-south cooperation idea et. al., seems to be working on the ground. But what would the Americans, British and Europeans (other than the French) think about the whole idea?
As of now, Brazil has short-listed the Dassault Rafale, F/A-18E Super Hornet and Gripen NG for their own fighter buying spree. While the British might not be directly interested as their Eurofighter Typhoon is not in the Brazil race, there are consequences if Brazil chooses to accept the Indian wisdom.
Every arms exporter from US to Russia is going to be worried if this cooperation fructifies and is a forerunner of a new trend. Already the announcement by India that Dassault Rafale is the chosen one seems to have nudged UAE to take a second good look at Rafale.
If Brazil and India go ahead with this ‘let-us-show-to-each-other’ bonhomie, the world arms market would turn topsy-turvy. Till now, the world arms market has been operating predominantly with ‘who-will-give-bigger-kickback’ and ‘I-know-what-is-good-for-me’ attitudes. If this new trend morphs into one of ‘your-evaluation-is-good-enough-for-me’, half the world’s arms exports would be endangered.
Even more worrisome, countries capable of asking for weapons system demonstration and capable of evaluating them, like India, which incidentally evaluated the MMRCA contenders on more than 656 parameters, would acquire massive clout. Not only prestige, but also in the cost factor, which means shrinking profits for the world’s arms exporters.
The cat is among the pigeons! Let us watch the fun.
My Naughty half natters, ‘of course, there would always be one group of idiots who would never accept the Indian wisdom, the bloody Pakis - let them rot with their Chinese dragons [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC/PAC_JF-17_Thunder]’
But hey, what do we know! Reports suggest that Brazil has approached India to share with them, the evaluation and reasoning behind the decision to go in for Dassault Rafale fighters in the MMRCA tender. And India has agreed to share the details behind the Rafale selection, with Brazil.
In return Brazil will provide India with an exclusively developed catalogue of NATO weapons, of interest to both countries.
Well, the BRICS and IBSA, south-south cooperation idea et. al., seems to be working on the ground. But what would the Americans, British and Europeans (other than the French) think about the whole idea?
As of now, Brazil has short-listed the Dassault Rafale, F/A-18E Super Hornet and Gripen NG for their own fighter buying spree. While the British might not be directly interested as their Eurofighter Typhoon is not in the Brazil race, there are consequences if Brazil chooses to accept the Indian wisdom.
Every arms exporter from US to Russia is going to be worried if this cooperation fructifies and is a forerunner of a new trend. Already the announcement by India that Dassault Rafale is the chosen one seems to have nudged UAE to take a second good look at Rafale.
If Brazil and India go ahead with this ‘let-us-show-to-each-other’ bonhomie, the world arms market would turn topsy-turvy. Till now, the world arms market has been operating predominantly with ‘who-will-give-bigger-kickback’ and ‘I-know-what-is-good-for-me’ attitudes. If this new trend morphs into one of ‘your-evaluation-is-good-enough-for-me’, half the world’s arms exports would be endangered.
Even more worrisome, countries capable of asking for weapons system demonstration and capable of evaluating them, like India, which incidentally evaluated the MMRCA contenders on more than 656 parameters, would acquire massive clout. Not only prestige, but also in the cost factor, which means shrinking profits for the world’s arms exporters.
The cat is among the pigeons! Let us watch the fun.
My Naughty half natters, ‘of course, there would always be one group of idiots who would never accept the Indian wisdom, the bloody Pakis - let them rot with their Chinese dragons [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC/PAC_JF-17_Thunder]’
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