Rafale jets

French media reports Dassault paid almost 13m euros to middlemen to help secure sale of fighter jets to India

Defence experts say Rafale can be compared with F-16 but it has no one-to-one comparison with JF-17

Experts say the aircraft may not immediately be used at the LAC, a de facto frontier between India and China

PM Modi admitted that LoC skirmishes would have ended 'better' for if it had Rafales

'Modi said had Rafale jets been there, results would have been different. What is the meaning of this?'

Says govt should give casualty figures

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi forced the firm to partner with billionaire Anil Ambani

Dassault agrees to invest 50 per cent in so-called offsets of the $8.7 billion deal

First ready-to-fly Rafales expected to arrive by 2019; order to be completed within six years

This deal is India's first major acquisition of fighter planes for two decades

IAF says it needs at least 42 squadrons to protect its northern and western borders with Pakistan and China

NDTV broadcaster said that the final agreement is set to be signed in India in three weeks

French president says agreeing on technicalities of arrangement obviously takes time, but we are on right track