405 : The Rafale Saga: Indian Air Force’s Never-Ending Wait for a Medium Multi-Role Combat Jet
Jayant Singh , Research Assistant at ISAS
5 February 2016
The visit to India by the President of France in January 2016 culminated in an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) pertaining to the delivery of 36 Rafale jets in flyaway condition. An IGA is essentially a high-level expression of intent. Indeed, the issues that held the deal up following India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s earlier announcement in Paris in this regard – and even before that – still persist.