India Seeks $15 Billion Fighter Jets in World's Largest Deal

[Ultima Thule]

typical false flagger so defensive about your terrorist diarrheal country

And you're a terrorist rapistan country @Papa Dragon

 

[IblinI]

What is all those wish list mindset, counting eggs before it hatch and comes to a conclusion of a "formidable air force on the planet".
No one cares about logistic, integration, system build up?

 

[Manidabest]

Indians have been coming up with this non sense from last 15yrs yrs i guess and trust me they will never end up buying these aircrafts ... they bullshit to manipulate European governments for not having good relations with Pakistan specifically and i dont know what kind of idiots are sitting in Europeans capitals who believes indians or indians must b good liars one should appreciate their quality of lying

 

[Dungeness]

I will discuss about it only after the delivery of first jet...

Vicious circle...

Then the whole generation would miss the fun of bragging about it for the next 10-20 years.

 

[monitor]

• First aircraft to be delivered within three years of contract
• India scrapped earlier deal to buy 126 fighters from Dassault

India asked global companies to submit proposals for 110 fighter jets, the world’s biggest such order currently.

The Indian Air Force sought requests for information for the supply of single- and twin-seat jets to be mostly manufactured locally, it said in a statement on its website. The Asian nation had earlier scrapped a deal to buy 126 fighter jets from Dassault Aviation SA, and instead opted to import 36 Rafale aircraft.

The order announced on Friday could be worth at least $15 billion, and will be the world’s largest fighter aircraft deal, said Rahul Bedi, a New Delhi-based analyst at Jane’s Information Services. At least 85 percent of the jets -- three-quarters of which are single-seat aircraft and the rest twin-seat -- have to be made in India and manufacturers interested in bidding need to send their proposals by July 6, according to the government.

Getting new aircraft is crucial for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the South Asian nation faces increased risks from neighboring Pakistan and China at a time when the Russian MiG fighters -- India’s mainstay -- are being phased out. The country’s air force and navy require as many as 400 single- and double-engine combat aircraft, according to the government. The first aircraft must be delivered within three years of signing the contract.

The South Asian country started looking for new warplanes in 2007, a contest that ended with the government selecting Dassault Aviation for 126 Rafale jets for $11 billion. With talks stalling over price and quality guarantees, the government scrapped the purchase in 2015 and bought 36 jets separately to speed up the process.

India was revising the specifications to allow manufacturers such as Boeing Co. and United Aircraft Corp. to pitch their twin-engine combat aircraft in the deal, people familiar with the matter said in February. Modi wants to modernize the country’s aging military equipment with a $250 billion spending, but it has been bogged down by a defense procurement process which is known for delays, backtracking and a history of corruption, making it a sensitive, slow-going process.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...t-of-plan-to-buy-air-india-operations-in-full

Hasn't this been going on for decades now?

Indians don't want to pay for the quality they should just build their own crap.

India and China talk so much shit this is just more shit coming out of India.

Seriously who believe this shit?

World largest as well as longest defence procurement ever occurred. Journey started 11 years ago could not make any results start the journey again for couple of more year .

 

[Papa Dragon]

And you're a terrorist rapistan country @Papa Dragon

I'm sure you're one of those pakistanis who pretend as an Indian in front of the Americans because every pakistani is seen as a potential terrorist in the west. So keep your sorry a** to yourself and come up with something better next time