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

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

• 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?

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Here we go again

 

[Papa Dragon]

Issue a tender--->foreign firms participate--->IAF top brass is offered huge kickbacks and commissions--->try to kill any indigenous projects in the making--->scrap the tender--->remain idle for a while--->issue a new tender with new specs--->repeat

 

[gangsta_rap]

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

Seriously who believe this shit?

racist

 

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

Issue a tender--->foreign firms participate--->IAF top brass is offered huge kickbacks and commissions--->try to kill any indigenous projects in the making--->scrap the tender--->remain idle for a while--->issue a new tender with new specs--->repeat

India has no defence industry.

Don't know what your country is doing.

If you want quality foreign tech you need to pay for it.

Seems to me India just talks and talk and talks nothing new.

 

[Dungeness]

“Mother of all Deals" once more. What happened to the last one?

 

[BATMAN]

Hasn't this been going on for decades now?

Yes its been going on for decades, but every time news says deal done.

 

[randomradio]

• 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?

Dassault, Saab, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Mikoyan and EADS believe this shit.

India has no defence industry.

Don't know what your country is doing.

If you want quality foreign tech you need to pay for it.

Seems to me India just talks and talk and talks nothing new.

We have a parallel program for 324 Tejas aircraft. And another fighter aircraft development program alongside it called AMCA.

 

[Sugarcane]

“Mother of all Deals" once more. What happened to the last one?

It's Grand Mother of all defense deals

 

[TruthTheOnlyDefense]

Dassault, Saab, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Mikoyan and EADS believe this shit.



We have a parallel program for 324 Tejas aircraft. And another fighter aircraft development program alongside it called AMCA.

lol at the so called Tejas face it even that has been going on for decades it's not a quality aircraft.

 

[Novice09]

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

Vicious circle...

 

[Imran Khan]

again funny drama of mother of all defense deals started with new cast ?

 

[Zen0]

India has no defence industry.

Don't know what your country is doing.

If you want quality foreign tech you need to pay for it.

Seems to me India just talks and talk and talks nothing new.

Another Chinese "expert" , up until 2005 60% of Russian arms exports were bought by China.

 

[GURU DUTT]

this deal is nothing but to scuttle in F16 BLK70/72

meaning 18X6 squads of Indian made BLK 70/72 F16 super Viper while 83 MK1A & 40 MK1 LCA are already in place while 36 rafale already oredred 36 more to be orderred while 36+4 more for IAC (vikrant) after that everything else will we 5th gen ... rest keep speculating


if im right in the end dont forget to give me a beer party

 

[Imran Khan]

this deal is nothing but to scuttle in F16 BLK70/72

meaning 18X6 squads of Indian made BLK 70/72 F16 super Viper while 83 MK1A & 40 MK1 LCA are already in place while 36 rafale already oredred 36 more to be orderred while 36+4 more for IAC (vikrant) after that everything else will we 5th gen ... rest keep speculating


if im right in the end dont forget to give me a beer party

lo idher se a gya aik or salesman . now next will come with f-18 and other with su-35 and game on