Will buy only 36 Rafales, no need for 126: Parrikar

May 31, 2015 18:11

India has decided to buy only 36 Rafale fighter jets scrapping the earlier plan to acquire 126 of the French aircraft on grounds of huge cost.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar termed as "economically unviable" the previous UPA government's 20 billion USD deal for purchase of the 126 Rafale fighter planes more than three years after France's Dassault Aviation was declared the lowest bidder.

"We are not buying the rest. We are only buying the direct 36," Parrikar told PTI in an interview when asked what will happen to rest of the requirement.

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