Hey guys good news! At last the joint comittie yesterday gave the go ahead to issue request for proposal (rfp) by next month.
This is said to be the mother of all defence deals, worth over $10 billion for purchasing 126 (MCRA) and has the clause of right to option for 50-60 aircraft more if the guv. fells the need for that and an 30% offset policy.
Defence sources says that the rfp would be issued to six contenders Lockheed Martin’s F-16 and Boeing’s F-18 super Hornet of the US, Sweden’s Gripen, Eurofighter GmbH’s Eurofighter Typhoon and Russia’s MiG-35 but that is irrelevant as the time taken so far towards issuing the rfp only is so long, how can they gurantee that there will be no delays in selecting an aircraft for the IAF?
In my next posting I will be predicting which aircraft INDIA will choose/ have to choose depending on diffrent scenarios that will govern the aircraft selection and complex negotiations that have to be done.
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