Eurofighter  

Twitter users who attacked Rahul Gandhi and his Congress with the hashtag on Tuesday insinuated that the president of the oldest party was making so much of noise over the Rafale deal at the behest of Dassault Aviation's competitor, the European Consortium that makes Eurofighter Typhoon

The IAF is working on formulating a set of qualitative requirements against which it is likely to benchmark the bids submitted by six major aircraft manufacturers for supply of 110 fighter jets, instead of going through the tortuous process of field trials and evaluation, as was done in the previous such competition

'All six companies including Lockheed Martin F-16  and Boeing F-18  of the US, Gripen of Sweden, MiG 35 of Russia, European consortium Eurofighter and Rafale of France have responded,' Defence Ministry officials told MyNation