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Eurofighter Typhoon or Rafale Dassault the next fighter aircraft for the
Indian Air Force. |
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India
will choose the winner of the project to supply 126 fighters for country's
air forces this month, Times of India said on Saturday quoting sources
in country's Defense Ministry. All eyes are on Eurofighter
Typhoon and Dassault
Rafale as to who would get go-ahead for the mega-deal.
Both the short-listed companies are lobbying hard for the $10.4 billion
deal. |
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The
Defence Acquisitions Council, chaired by defence minister A K Antony,
on Friday approved the offsets evaluation reports of the Eurofighter
Typhoon (backed by UK, Germany, Spain and Italy) and
the French Rafale
Dassault jets. The other contenders, the American, Russian
and Swedish jets, were earlier ejected out of the race after long-drawn
technical evaluation and field trials. "All the spade work for opening of the commercial bids of Eurofighter and Rafale has now been completed. It will be done towards the end of this month,'' said an official. It will, however, take at
least two-three weeks to determine the lowest bidder (L-1) after the
bids are opened. "Huge amounts of mathematical and data verification
of the lifecycle costs of operating the jets over a 40-year period,
with 6,000 hours of flying, as well as cost of ToT (transfer of technology)
will have to be done,'' he added. Final commercial negotiations with
the L-1 vendor will then begin before the contract is ready for signing
by early-2012. |
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