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India signed a deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France on Friday, the country's first major acquisition of combat planes in decades, as Laura Frykberg reports.
Bangalore, Feb 3 (EFE/EPA).- India on Wednesday agreed to buy 83 locally-built combat aircrafts worth more than $6.5 billion from the state-run defense and aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics.The biggest defense deal for a homegrown company was sealed at the opening of Aero India-2021, India's biennial defense and aerospace show, in the southern city of Bengaluru."I am very happy that (Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd) HAL has got the orders for development of 83 new indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) - Tejas MK1A from Indian Air Force valued at more than Rs. 480 billion," Defense Minister Rajnath Singh announced in his inaugural address at the event. (Camera: JAGADEESH NV). SHOT LIST: THE INAUGURAL DAY OF THE 13TH AERO INDIA 2021 AT YELAHANKA AIR FORCE STATION IN BANGALORE, INDIA.
French Defence Minister Florence Parly arrives in Athens to oversee the signing of a landmark Rafale warplane deal between Greece and France, part of a burgeoning arms programme by Athens to counter recurring Turkish challenges in the eastern Mediterranean. IMAGES
French Defence minister Florence Parly attends a ceremony in India marking the induction of Rafale fighter jets into the Indian Air Force. India has bought 36 Rafale fighters from France in a deal estimated to be worth $9.4 billion. All are scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2021. IMAGES
French nationals arrive at New Delhi airport in buses chartered by the French Embassy in India, to board the first repatriation flight which is expected to take about 500 French nationals back home. The majority of them are tourists trapped by the 21-day national lockdown ordered by the Indian government to fight the spread of coronavirus. IMAGES
The US House of Representatives passes a roughly $8 billion emergency funding bill to fight the coronavirus that has been spreading throughout the United States, hours after Congressional leaders finished ironing out terms of the deal. IMAGES
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