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Salvaging Rafale deal
The French Defence Minister has offered a fresh proposal to resolve the issue of medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) for which Dassault Aviation’s Rafale had been selected. The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has assured to look into that.
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Paris in April it would be difficult for India to scuttle the deal without any solid ground. The only excuse can be the life-cycle cost of Rafale which is much more than the Eurofighter.
This issue was brought to the notice of the then UPA Government and the opposition BJP leader Yashwant Sinha had sent a written memo to the MoD regarding the high life-cycle cost of the plane. Dassault Aviation seems to have assured the MoD to take care of this cost by perhaps reducing the initial cost of the plane. Now that the same NDA is in power they are trying to address this issue.
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