Rafale  

The French govt debunked Rahul Gandhi's claims in Parliament that he was told by French president Emanuel Macron that there was no secrecy pact between the two countries on the procurement of the Rafale combat aircraft

Sitharaman responded to Rahul's allegations and waved a copy of the agreement signed with the French government by the then defence minister of the Congress government, AK Antony

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