The Indian Navy will soon receive 26 Rafale-M fighter aircraft in a deal worth Rs 63,000 crore between India and France.
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It all increases out of India’s major concern for control and supremacy in its maritime domain. Independent India took over than half a century to enunciate that the arc of the Indian Ocean between the Straits of Hormuz and Malacca is a zone of its strategic concerns.
While the Indian Navy’s shore-based trial facility in Goa has already performed flight test trials of the French Rafale-Marine alternatives, the testing of the US F-18 super hornet is slated to be completed by June 15.