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The Rafale deal controversy is a political controversy in India related to the purchase of 36 Rafale multirole fighter aircraft for a price estimated at €7.87 billion (₹58,891 Crore) by the Defence Ministry of India from France's Dassault Aviation. The origin of the deal lies in the Indian MMRCA competition, a multi-billion dollar contract ...
Dassault Rafale. The Dassault Rafale ( French pronunciation: [ʁafal], literally meaning "gust of wind", [ 3] or "burst of fire" in a more military sense) [ 4] is a French twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Equipped with a wide range of weapons, the Rafale is intended to perform ...
The Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft ( MMRCA) competition in India, also known as the MRCA tender, was a competition to supply 126 multi-role combat aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF). The Defence Ministry had allocated ₹ 55,000 crore (US$6.6 billion) at 2008 prices for the purchase of these aircraft, [2] making it India's single largest ...
The Indian Air Force has been undergoing a modernization program to replace and upgrade outdated equipment since the late 1990s to meet modern standards. For that reason, it has started procuring and developing aircraft, weapons, associated technologies, and infrastructures. Some of these programs date back to the late 1980s.
Chowkidar Chor Hai ( Hindi: चौकीदार चोर है, lit. 'The watchman is a thief') is a Hindi slogan used by the Indian National Congress (INC) in its election campaign for the 2019 Indian general election. The slogan was coined by the then INC president, Rahul Gandhi, against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) affiliated ...
Storm Shadow. The Storm Shadow is a Franco - British low-observable, long-range air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace, and now manufactured by MBDA. [6] ". Storm Shadow" is the weapon's British name; in France it is called SCALP-EG (which stands for " Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée ...
The Saab JAS 39 Gripen(IPA:[ˈɡrǐːpɛn]pronunciationⓘ; English: The Griffin)[Nb 1][3]is a lightsingle-engine supersonicmultirole fighter aircraftmanufactured by the Swedish aerospaceand defence company Saab AB. The Gripen has a delta wingand canardconfiguration with relaxed stabilitydesign and fly-by-wireflight controls.
The source quoted by PTI claims a saving of 750 million from the UPA-era deal, which was a deal for 126 aircraft with local production for 108 while the new deal for 36 aircraft. Whenever other sources have made claims of savings, they have always presented a basis for comparison.