{"id":97640,"date":"2026-01-17T19:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=97640"},"modified":"2026-01-17T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T14:03:58","slug":"india-approves-purchase-of-114-french-rafale-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/india-approves-purchase-of-114-french-rafale-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"India approves purchase of 114 French Rafale jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Despite its humiliating defeat by Pakistan, India, which is still war-mad, is preparing to buy more than 100 French-made <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/india-inks-7-4bn-agreement-to-buy-26-rafale-fighter-jets\/\">Rafale fighter jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Bloomberg report, India has approved the purchase of 114 French-made Rafale fighter jets and their joint production plan.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Indian officials told Bloomberg on condition of anonymity that India\u2019s Defense Procurement Board has cleared the proposal to buy Rafale aircraft from French defense company Dassault Aviation.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Ministry of Defense and the Air Force did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>It may be recalled that India had canceled a deal to buy 126 Rafale aircraft from France in 2015 due to years of negotiations and disagreements over the quality of the aircraft to be manufactured in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>According to Indian media reports, French President Emmanuel Macron is set to visit India next month.<\/p>\n<p>Although Russia is still India\u2019s largest arms supplier, New Delhi has reduced its purchases of military equipment from Moscow in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>There are still more steps to be taken before the final deal for Rafale is signed and deliveries begin, including price negotiations and final approval from the cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Bloomberg News report, India already has 36 Rafale aircraft and in April this year signed a deal to buy 26 naval versions of the fighter jet.<\/p>\n<p>All but a few of the 114 aircraft will be manufactured in India in collaboration with a French defense company, which will also transfer technology to Indian partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Despite its humiliating defeat by Pakistan, India, which is still war-mad, is preparing to buy more than 100 French-made Rafale fighter jets. According to a Bloomberg report, India has approved the purchase of 114 French-made Rafale fighter jets and their joint production plan. Senior Indian officials told Bloomberg on condition of anonymity that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":97641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[1205,28594],"class_list":["post-97640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-pm-modi","tag-rafale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97642,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97640\/revisions\/97642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}