{"id":304192,"date":"2018-10-16T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T09:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304192"},"modified":"2018-10-16T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T16:48:04","slug":"rafale-fighter-jets-to-be-delivered-to-india-from-2019-says-ceo-dassault-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rafale-fighter-jets-to-be-delivered-to-india-from-2019-says-ceo-dassault-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafale fighter jets to be delivered to India from 2019, says CEO Dassault Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rafale-fighter-jets-wont-be-part-of-bengaluru-air-show-in-february-2019-says-iaf\/rafale-fighters\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303458\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303458 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rafale-fighters-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rafale-fighters-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rafale-fighters-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rafale-fighters-696x504.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rafale-fighters-580x420.jpg 580w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rafale-fighters.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Amid the massive political row undergoing over Rafale jet deal with France, the Dassault Aviation will deliver the fighter jets to India from 2019 and may see new orders in coming months, Eric Trappier, Dassault Aviation Chief Executive Officer, reportedly said ahead of the world\u2019s largest business jet show in Orlando on October 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India has signed a deal with Dassault on September 23, 2016 for the transfer of 36 Rafale jets but the deal has since faced huge criticism from opposition parties who allege wrongdoing in defence deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CEO Trappier also said that he would increase production of certain models in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The announcement comes amid a huge political drama with the Congress party spearheading a campaign against central government what it terms as Rafale scam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president Rahul Gandhi has even accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of benefitting Reliance Defence\u2019s Anil Ambani with the said deal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the massive political row undergoing over Rafale jet deal with France, the Dassault Aviation will deliver the fighter jets to India from 2019 and may see new orders in coming months, Eric Trappier, Dassault Aviation Chief Executive Officer, reportedly said ahead of the world\u2019s largest business jet show in Orlando on October 15. India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[456],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304217,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304192\/revisions\/304217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}