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French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, left, and his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar show off the intergovernmental agreements for the purchase of 36 Rafale jet fighters at a joint news conference in New Delhi on Jan. 25, 2016. India and France have signed an agreement on the long-delayed purchase of 36 Rafale jet fighters but have yet to reach a deal on financial issues, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that same day.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Prakash Singh\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n At present, the Kaveri engine lacks sufficient power thrust, efficiency and dependability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An upgraded Kaveri engine with 90 kN thrust can be developed in two years’ time with French cooperation, according to the French Embassy source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently the Tejas is powered by a General Electric F404 engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We have detailed discussions with the French teams to revive [the] Kaveri engine project and it is now for MoD to take a final call,” according to a senior DRDO scientist, who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, the MoD is yet to respond to the Indian Ministry of Law and Justice’s findings on\u00a0the\u00a0Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) on the Rafale deal, the MoD defense procurement official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar had informed the parliament May 3 that the\u00a0federal ministry had reviewed\u00a0the IGA\u00a0and that the findings would be taken into account when finalizing the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is for the political leadership to take final call on [Rafale deal, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And prior to that,\u00a0Dassault chairman Eric Trappier said in an April 13 radio report that\u00a0he expected a contract could be signed “in the next few days,” adding: “I have high hopes this contract could be signed fairly quickly.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n The MoD procurement official said that no negotiations on the Rafale deal between France and India have taken place in more than\u00a0six weeks, and the next meeting is yet to be scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to 36 Rafale fighters, India is also buying Mica air-to-air missiles, Scalp air-to-ground missiles,\u00a0Meteor beyond-visual-range missiles and precision-guided munitions at a cost of $1 billion for immediate requirements, and India is expected to order\u00a0five years’\u00a0maintenance and\u00a0engineering support at a cost of $500 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No one knows when [Rafale] deal will be finalised and singed, MoD procurement official said .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Ministry of Defence procurement official said that no negotiations on the Rafale deal between France and India have taken place in more than six weeks, and the next meeting is yet to be scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":81915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":11,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[11,33],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3390],"class_list":["post-38276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","category-home"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"WS4GH3PDZBE2XLVS2W246TC5BE","arc_canonical_url":"\/global\/2016\/07\/06\/france-imposes-new-conditions-on-rafale-deal-with-india\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n