{"id":4788,"date":"2025-04-28T22:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2025-04-28T22:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:34:13","slug":"india-signs-7-4bn-deal-to-buy-26-rafale-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=4788","title":{"rendered":"India signs $7.4bn deal to buy 26 Rafale fighter jets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>India will buy 22 single-seater and four twin-seater fighters.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rafale fighter aircrafts to be inducted into Indian Navy.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Crew undergoing training in France and India, confirms ministry.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India signed a deal with France on Monday to buy 26 Rafale fighter aircraft worth $7.4 for its navy, the Indian defence ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India will buy 22 single-seater and four twin-seater fighters, made by France&#8217;s Dassault Aviation (AM.PA), the ministry said, in a deal that would boost the Asian country&#8217;s defence ties with its second-largest arms supplier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The delivery of these aircraft would be completed by 2030, with the crew undergoing training in France and India,&#8221; the ministry said, adding that the deal is expected to generate thousands of jobs and revenue for a large number of businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The purchase was approved earlier this month by India&#8217;s security cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,&nbsp;<em>Reuters<\/em>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Indian Air Force currently operates 36 Rafale fighters, while the navy&#8217;s aircraft fleet mainly comprises Russian MiG-29 jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India is seeking to modernise its military, reduce dependence on Russian-origin equipment, and boost domestic weapons production to supply forces deployed along two contentious borders with Pakistan and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Indian navy has flagged China&#8217;s growing presence in the Indian Ocean over the past decade, with Beijing operating dual-purpose vessels in the region and maintaining a military base in Djibouti since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also marks another step in India&#8217;s long-standing reliance on French military hardware, including Mirage 2000 jets bought in the 1980s and Scorpene-class submarines ordered in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India signed a deal with France on Monday to buy 26 Rafale fighter aircraft worth $7.4 for its navy, the Indian defence ministry said in a statement. India will buy 22 single-seater and four twin-seater fighters, made by France&#8217;s Dassault Aviation (AM.PA), the ministry said, in a deal that would boost the Asian country&#8217;s defence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}