The government has decided to buy 126 French-made Rafale combat
aircraft for the Indian air force, clinching a massive $11 billion
defence deal, a top official said Tuesday.
Eighteen fighter aircraft will be delivered in ''fly away'' condition within 36 months and the remaining 108 are to be built by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. through technology transfers.
Defence ministry experts were still fine-tuning pricing details, including the cost of on-board weaponry and royalties for producing the aircraft in India.
IE: France's Dassault Rafale wins IAF's biggest fighter jet deal
Update - Spiegel Online:
Eighteen fighter aircraft will be delivered in ''fly away'' condition within 36 months and the remaining 108 are to be built by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. through technology transfers.
Defence ministry experts were still fine-tuning pricing details, including the cost of on-board weaponry and royalties for producing the aircraft in India.
IE: France's Dassault Rafale wins IAF's biggest fighter jet deal
Update - Spiegel Online:
So far, all the negotiations Dassault has conducted with foreign governments interested in the Rafale have failed because the fighter jet has a tendency to require a lot of repairs and is thus more expensive to maintain and operate. Dassault has unsuccessfully tried to sell its aircraft to Morocco, Brazil, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. In the end, though, not a single potential buyer bit.
4 comments:
The best part of this deal was saying NO to USA.
http://livefist.blogspot.in/2011/05/indian-politician-says-sonia-gandhi-has.html?m=1
Subramanian Swamy predicted Rafale last year. How? Read the link above.
Rumour has it that the deal was swung with the help of Karla Bruni who is a italian and heiress to the CEAT Type empire in Italy and President Sarkozy's wife who is very friendly with Sonia Manio's sisters...another bofors in the making....I guess subramanyam swamy will have a lot of work in the years to come nailing this scandal :)
the shameful part is that a country of 1.2 billion depends on a country with 5% that size to make its aircraft.
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