Commentary: India's wobbly quest for more fighter aircraft

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Prospects for India's fighter modernisation programme look bleak. It has cancelled a former multi-role combat aircraft tender previously, says a ...

this week targeting suspected terrorist hideouts in Pakistan and subsequent air battles comes at a time of growing concerns about sharply declining strength of India’s fighter squadrons.A QUEST TO BUY 110 FIGHTER JETS

The scheme requires the shortlisted Indian companies – designated as strategic partners – to collaborate with the selected original equipment manufacturers to respond to the tender or what is termed a request for proposal . Prescribing pre-qualification criteria for this purpose remains a challenge and all criteria that omit any potential local manufacturer are, in competitive domestic circles, unlikely to go unchallenged. This seems to be one of the principal causes for delay in shortlisting domestic strategic partners.

Its introduction is all the more inexplicable as existing procedures permit the easier and less complex option of permitting original equipment manufacturers to choose their Indian partners themselves to respond to the Defence Ministry’s RFP.

The RFI followed rejection of the naval variant of the under-development Light Combat Aircraft and attendant problems with the 45 MiG-29Ks acquired as part of the air group for INS Vikramaditya – the navy’s only aircraft carrier in service – and the under-construction INS Vikrant, scheduled for commissioning around 2021 to 2022.

 

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Is the author responsible for typos or you? Who edits? I’m assuming it’s a typo in a shoddy article. Second paragraphs says Indian Air Force has 31 Aircraft. It should be Squadrons and not Aircraft. Simple mistake or bad writing/editing?

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