The PNF had intially refused to investigate the sale of Dassault’s Rafale jets, prompting French investigative website Mediapart to accuse it and the French Anti-corruption Agency of “burying” suspicions surrounding the September 2016 deal Paris: A French judge has been tasked with investigating a controversial 2016 multi-billion-dollar sale of Rafale fighter jets to India on “corruption” suspicions, the national financial …
French aerospace major Dassault Aviation and European missile maker MBDA have till date “not confirmed” the transfer of technology for the indigenous development of engine for the Light Combat Aircraft by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, under the offset contract relating to the ₹60,000 crore deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets, the Comptroller and Auditor General said in a …
A proposal for the purchase of 126 MMRCA was first mooted by the IAF to the Vajpayee-led NDA government in 2000. The defence minister confirmed that Dassault Aviation would supply 18 Rafale MMRCA in fly-away condition and that the remaining 108 fighters would be manufactured by HAL under TOT and that the contract would be signed after March 2012. When …
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