Dassault Aviation Discussing with 60 Indian companies for Supply Chain Operations
Dassault Aviation has signed deal with 30 Indian companies and is talking to 60 more to set up a supply-chain network for its JV with Reliance Defence in Nagpur.
The supply chain network will feed its JV with Reliance Defencewhich is engaged in executing offsets contract as part of India's buy of 36 Rafale fighter jets. Dassault Aviation is dedicated to establishing successfully the Make in India, a company statement said, welcoming the decision of India's supreme court dismissing all petitions filed on the Rafale Contract signed on 23rd September 2016.
“The deal is absolutely clean in accordance with Indian laws and regulations, as I have stated before, and the first Falcon part is currently under delivery out of our facility in Nagpur” has declared Eric Trappier, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation.
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MBDA to Develop Next-gen MICA Missile for Rafale Fighters
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France to Upgrade 144 Rafale Fighter Jets to F3-R Standard, Same as...
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Moroccan Mirage-1 Fighter Crashes During Training
January 22, 2019 @ 10:30 AMA Dassault Mirage-1 fighter aircraft belonging to the Moroccan Air Force crashed in the northern region of Taounate on Monday. The fighter jet was on a training flight and crashed after a “technical breakdown,” Morocco world news reported Monday quoting General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces as saying
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Israeli Elisra to Develop Electronic Warfare Suite for India’s Tejas, MiG-29 Fighters...
December 28, 2018 @ 09:20 AMIsraeli Elisra will develop electronic warfare suite for Indias Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas KM1A and upgraded MiG-29 fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF). Indias state-run Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has selected Elisra for the development of electronic warfare suite for LCA after issuing a multi-vendor tender in which around six to seven companies had participated, a unnamed senior Defence Ministry official was quoted as saying by ANI Wednesday
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JFD Delivers Second Third-gen Submarine Rescue System to Indian Navy
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