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MMRCA Deal Likely By April: IAF Chief

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The purchase deal for 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) fighter planes should be signed by April 2013, Air Chief Marshal N. A. K. Browne, Chief of Air Staff, said.
“Negotiations are on. We should be able to finish [the contract] this financial year. It is a complex process. We are discussing offsets, transfer of technology, HAL’s [Hindustan Aeronautics Limited] role and the cost, of course. It is progressing well,” he said on Thursday.
The Air Chief was speaking at a news conference organised in connection with the arrival of the Brazilian aircraft that will carry the indigenously developed airborne early warning and control system. The MMRCA deal, estimated at around Rs 50,000 crore, is considered this decade’s largest military purchase. An additional order is said to be in the offing. The Indian Air Force is seeking to replace its ageing MiG-21s with a modern fighter.
After a gruelling contest involving six aircraft manufacturers, the IAF picked the French entry, Rafale fourth-generation fighter plane, in February 2012. A multi-ministry negotiations committee is currently in talks with its manufacturer, Dassault Systemes Aviation.
Eighteen of the 126 planes are to be purchased directly from Dassault, while HAL will manufacture the other 108 under a licence at an upcoming facility in Bangalore.


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Good to have all things sorted out with more carefulness rather than getting frustrated or feeling duped like in case of Vikramaditya. Finalization of deal by this fiscal year is actually a good sign.
 
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seems rafale will fly sooner than our LCAs with full FOC :woot:

dunno if to distribute sweets or hit my head with a brick !!
 
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By April? April fool!!! :P

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some chinese LSD
coz when you pop one in
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and you start trolling like pilli

take that, ya uncouth troll
i counter thee with a limerick
Here's another limerick for friend Pilli...

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Who's a troller extremely Silly.
His posts are real dumb
Like he writes with his bum
Where he needs to shove in a chilli!
:cheesy:
 
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