Search This Blog

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

MiG-35: Top Candidate for Air Force MRCA Deal

Mig 35Sources close to Defence Ministry reveal that India is likely to announce MiG 35's as the winner of the massive Indian Air Force MRCA (Multi Role Combat Aircraft) contract during President Putin's visit to New Delhi on the 25th-26th of this month (January 2007).

However it is not clear whether the MiG 35's will be the sole aircraft to be acquired to meet the MRCA requirement of the Indian Air Force, which has for more than a decade put forth a requirement to replace its ageing fleet of MiG 21's, MiG27's and Jaguars fighters.

It is suspected that the MRCA requirement, which was originally for 126 fighter jets, has been increased to 200 fighter jets, and that MiG 29's would acquired in numbers around 80-120.

Read more
om

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.

The material is being made available in an effort to advance understanding arms trade activities, for non-profit research and educational purposes only.

I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

This is a completely non-commercial site for private personal use. No fee is charged, and no money is made off of the operation of this site.