Amidst swirling speculation that India’s M-MRCA jet deal with Rafale is shuddering through final lap turbulence, and suggestions (including by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar himself) […]
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There are few things like defence procurement that make the passage of time seem nothing. So it shouldn’t shake anyone up that its been three
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So, as I mentioned in my earlier post, sticking points in negotiations between Dassault Aviation and HAL remain the chief reason why a draft contract
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An exhausted French government is probably seeing it as fortuitous that new Indian defence minister Manohar Parrikar’s first foreign guest will be French defence minister Jean-Yves
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US Navy Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Snyder Apparently putting to rest questions over technology transfer negotiations being one of the bumps slowing
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“I disown this report and disassociate myself completely from it. It should have been attributed not to me but the person responsible for introducing gross
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These beauties just landed: formation flights of French Air Force Rafales with an IAF MiG-27 and Su-30 MKI over Rajasthan for #Garuda5. More soon.
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We don’t know yet if French Air Force chief General Denis Mercier (met him last year) will get behind the stick on an IAF Flanker
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Frop top: Two of the four French Rafales, an IAF Su-30 MKI, an IAF MiG-27, IAF C-17 Globemaster III and an upgraded IAF An-32. These
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Well, not mine. But there’s definitely movement. Definitely. Two prominent newspaper reports today, likely from the same source, indicate India’s painfully protracted M-MRCA jet negotiations
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