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India’s arms deal draws Britain’s ire
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Source-- India’s arms deal draws Britain’s ire | idrw.org[/b]
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THE Anglo-French rivalry that marked India’s
colonisation has resurfaced in a new avatar with
India preferring French Rafale over Eurofighter
Typhoon, offered by a British-led consortium in
the biggest deal for fighter aircraft in the last two
decades.
THE Anglo-French rivalry that marked India’s
colonisation has resurfaced in a new avatar with
India preferring French Rafale over Eurofighter
Typhoon, offered by a British-led consortium in
the biggest deal for fighter aircraft in the last two
decades.
By choosing the French medium multirole
combat aircraft (MMRCA), India, once the “jewel in
the British crown”, also “disappointed” Germany,
Spain and Italy.
Leaders of the four, according to India Strategic
magazine, asked India to go for “a political
decision and select this otherwise very good
aircraft but the government, at the highest levels,
decided to go by the book only”.
While details of the US$11 billion (RM33 billion)
deal are not available, the magazine says the
overall French costing was 15 per cent lower.
The Indian government announced its decision
on Jan 31, ending intense speculation, but not
lobbying perhaps, for a massive 126-aircraft deal.
Dassault Aviation will supply 18 aircraft in flyaway...
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.................. For full article please visit above link
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Source-- http://.
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Source-- India’s arms deal draws Britain’s ire | idrw.org[/b]
.
.
THE Anglo-French rivalry that marked India’s
colonisation has resurfaced in a new avatar with
India preferring French Rafale over Eurofighter
Typhoon, offered by a British-led consortium in
the biggest deal for fighter aircraft in the last two
decades.
THE Anglo-French rivalry that marked India’s
colonisation has resurfaced in a new avatar with
India preferring French Rafale over Eurofighter
Typhoon, offered by a British-led consortium in
the biggest deal for fighter aircraft in the last two
decades.
By choosing the French medium multirole
combat aircraft (MMRCA), India, once the “jewel in
the British crown”, also “disappointed” Germany,
Spain and Italy.
Leaders of the four, according to India Strategic
magazine, asked India to go for “a political
decision and select this otherwise very good
aircraft but the government, at the highest levels,
decided to go by the book only”.
While details of the US$11 billion (RM33 billion)
deal are not available, the magazine says the
overall French costing was 15 per cent lower.
The Indian government announced its decision
on Jan 31, ending intense speculation, but not
lobbying perhaps, for a massive 126-aircraft deal.
Dassault Aviation will supply 18 aircraft in flyaway...
.
.
.................. For full article please visit above link