PLAYING POLITICS WITH INDIA'S STRATEGIC COMBAT PREPAREDNESS & LIES: RAFALE SCAM
In April 2015, out of the blue, Modi announced in France that we are purchasing 36 Rafale "off the shelf" in "fly away" configuration. That announcement was seen as a modification to the ongoing negotiations to procure 126 Rafale in which 18 were to be "off the shelf" in "fly away" configuration and the rest 108 manufactured in India by HAL.
Surprisingly, in Jun 2015, Modi sarkar cancelled the RFP for the 126 Rafale. In Sept 2016 a fresh contract for purchase of only 36 Rafale "off the shelf" in "fly away" configuration was awarded to Dassault, France.
After Modi sarkar decided to buy 36 Rafale fighters instead instead of 126 in 2015, then defence minister Manohar Parrikar spoke of plans to get a single-engine foreign fighter — Swedish Gripen or American F-16 — under the strategic partnership model for the Make in India initiative to make up the shortfall of Combat aircraft squadrons of IAF.
In October 2016, it was reported that that Indian embassies in Washington, Moscow and Stockholm wrote to fighter jet manufacturers in these countries to confirm whether they would partner an Indian company in building a medium, single-engine fighter, with significant transfer of technology to the Indian entity thereby resuming a new competition for a single-engine fighter to replace the Indian Air Force's MiG-21 and MiG-27 aircraft.
In Nov 2017, Saab Group said it would ensure "full" technology transfer of its Gripen-E fighter jet to India if the company gets the contract to supply a fleet of the single engine combat aircraft to Indian Air Force.
The company also said it will build the world's most modern aerospace facility in India, besides creating a local supplier base of ancillary systems.
That plan, however, was not activated and HAL was asked to supply 83 more LCA Tejas Mark1A in December 2017.
In Nov 2018, the ASQR for "strategic partnership model for the Make in India initiative" for manufacture of single engine fighter aircraft was changed by removing the "single engine" criteria. Thereby a fresh RFP was floated for 110 fighter Aircraft.
Today the same Modi sarkar but a different Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is screaming all over the place that HAL is "useless" and "incapable of manufacturing Rafale", yet it was her ministry which DID NOT proceed with the "strategic partnership model for the Make in India initiative" and placed orders to that same "useless" HAL for LCA Tejas Mark1A.
It was Nirmala Sitharaman herself who was the Defence Minister in Dec 2017 when HAL was awarded the order to supply 83 more LCA Tejas Mark1A. However the contract for these 83 LCA Tejas Mark1A is yet to be signed between the IAF and HAL.
The "hodgepodge" doesnt end there, the IAF reportedly has committed to HAL for 223 LCA Tejas Mark 2.
Wonder how many lies would be woven around the Rafale scam in an effort to cover it up.

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