{"id":50691,"date":"2025-04-25T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/50691\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:58:10","slug":"india-france-to-finalise-%e2%82%b963000-crore-deal-for-26-rafale-m-jets-on-april-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/50691\/","title":{"rendered":"India, France to finalise \u20b963,000-crore deal for 26 Rafale-M jets on April 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1x1_spacer.png\" alt=\"A Rafale-M jet. File.\" title=\"A Rafale-M jet. File.\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1x1_spacer.png\" class=\"lead-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                    A Rafale-M jet. File.<br \/>\n                                          | Photo Credit:  Dinakar Peri\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>India and France are set to formally announce the conclusion of the around \u20b963,000-crore deal for 26 Rafale-M fighter jets on Monday (April 28, 2025), official sources confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>With the earlier planned visit of French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu\u00a0to India for the signing deferred due to personal reasons, the government-to-government (G-to-G) deal is now being inked by the two Ministers remotely, sources in the know said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"referpara\"><strong><br \/>\n        Also read | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/what-is-indias-dilemma-over-fighter-jets-explained\/article69252301.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is India\u2019s dilemma over fighter jets? | Explained<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe G-to-G agreement has been signed by the French Minister, and will be signed separately by the Indian Minister [Rajnath Singh]. A ceremony on Monday to announce this will be presided by the French Ambassador in India, Thierry Mathou, and Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh,\u201d sources said. Some government-to-business agreements will be signed at the ceremony, sources added.<\/p>\n<p>The visit of the French Defence Minister was deferred a day before the Pahalgam terror attack and had nothing to do with the current situation, sources stated.<\/p>\n<p>Delivery in six years<\/p>\n<p>As reported by The Hindu earlier, delivery of the jets will start in about three-and-a-half years once the contract is signed, and will be completed in about six-and-a-half years. The deal is for 22 single-seater jets that can operate off aircraft carriers and four twin-seater trainer jets that aren\u2019t carrier compatible. The Indian Air Force already operates 36 Rafale jets acquired under a \u20b960,000-crore deal signed in September 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img src-template=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/news\/national\/teitpw\/article67084966.ece\/alternates\/SQUARE_80\/Profiles2.jpg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/news\/national\/teitpw\/article67084966.ece\/alternates\/SQUARE_80\/Profiles2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-device-variant=\"SQUARE~SQUARE~SQUARE~SQUARE\" class=\"media-object lazy adaptive placeholder lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Navy currently operates two aircraft carriers \u2013 INS Vikramaditya procured from Russia, and the indigenously built INS Vikrant, which was commissioned in September 2022. The Rafale-Ms are meant to fill the gap in numbers till the under-development indigenous Twin Engine Deck-Based Fighter (TEDBF) is inducted into service.<\/p>\n<p>Indian aircraft carriers use a ski-jump to launch aircraft, and arrestor cables to recover aircraft that use a tail hook. The lifts (used to move aircraft) onboard Indian carriers were built to accommodate the in-service Russian MiG-29K jets. This would necessitate minor modifications to Rafales so that they can be accommodated on the lifts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time-new\"> Published &#8211; April 25, 2025 08:39 pm IST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Rafale-M jet. 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