Dassault Rafale News

New Delhi, May 21: Ahead of finalising a multi-billion contract with French firm Dassault Aviation for 126 Rafale combat planes, the Indian Air Force chief, Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne, left for France Monday on a four-day official visit to explore ways to expand bilateral military relations.

By far the biggest defence acquisition programme in Brazil is the air force's plans to initially purchase 36 airframes to fulfil the country's F-X Multi-Role Combat Aircraft requirement.

Indian Air Force MIG 27 take part in an exercise at Pokhran firing range in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan March 14, 2004.

Dassault has received approval from the FAA for steep approaches on all Falcon 900 EASy and Falcon 2000 EASy series models.

Experts say a majority of the accidents involved Indias single-engine MiG-21s, a combat aeroplane which has been flown by some 50 countries since it was developed by then Soviet Union in the 1950s Dubbed flying coffins or widow makers in the air force, Indias ageing collection of Soviet-era MiGs have long been unpopular with air force pilots.

A US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made a full-throated pitch for Brazil to buy American fighter jets in a speech on Wednesday and said defense trade between the hemisphere's two largest economies was "an area ripe for growth." US-based Boeing's F-18 Super Hornet is seen as an underdog in a Brazilian competition for a contract with an initial ... (more)

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, second right, and Brazil's General Mourao visit the National Monument for the Casualties of World War II in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday, April 25.

French major Altran Technologies is expanding its operations in India to tap the domestic market and serve its global customers in aerospace, automotive, railways and energy verticals, a senior company official said Thursday.

Dassault Aviation SA has agreed to acquire Alcatel-Lucent SA's 20.78 per cent stake in Thales SA for about 1.57 billion that will hike its influence at a major supplier of flight electronics for its aircraft.

Regarding business jets, new orders, net of cancellations, stood at 10 FALCON as of March 31, 2012 compared to 11 FALCON as of March 31, 2011.

Eurofighter, a consortium of German, Italian, Spanish and UK defence firms, has not yet abandoned all hope of stealing the order away from Dassault.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made a full-throated pitch for Brazil to buy American fighter jets in a speech on Wednesday and said defense trade between the hemisphere's two largest economies was "an area ripe for growth." U.S.-based Boeing's F-18 Super Hornet is seen as an underdog in a Brazilian competition for a contract with an initial ... (more)