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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Dassault unaware of any decision to disqualify Rafale

RafaleUnconfirmed reports suggest that the French fighter aircraft, Rafale, may have been disqualified from the Indian Air Force's Medium-range Multi-role Combat Aircraft tender, an approximately $11 billion deal for the supply of 126 aircraft.

Dassault officials attending the Latin America Aerospace and Defense show at Rio de Janeiro have, however, denied receiving any information from Indian authorities in this regard.

"We have not had any information from Indian officials,'' said a Dassault spokesman.

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1 comment:

  1. Pete20/4/09 13:37

    I think the tender is almost sure to go to a US firm ie to the F-18E/F maybe with a Growler option.

    Pete

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