Rafale

French intelligence reports say that Chinese defence attachés stationed in embassies worldwide spearheaded a targeted effort to dissuade countries especially those in Asia and Africa from purchasing Rafale.

In a startling revelation that underscores the intensity of global geopolitical rivalry, French intelligence agencies have disclosed that China used its diplomatic missions worldwide to covertly undermine the international sales of Dassault Aviation’s Rafale fighter jets after India’s high-profile Operation Sindoor.

Indonesia on Wednesday signed a letter of intent to purchase additional 18 Rafale jets, despite rumours that it was cancelling the earlier deal for 42 Rafales after India-Pakistan conflict

J-10C, like most of the domestically-developed Chinese platforms had not yet been battle-tested till now, so they also needed this fake news of it bringing down a Rafale to show that this fighter jet is good for active combat.

France has submitted the final price offer to India for the 26 Rafale Marine Jet deal just ahead of the scheduled visit of Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to the country

It is important to note that in all these baseless issues lies one underlying thing – to target the incorruptible image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"The aircraft equipped with advanced sensors carried out low-level flying over the suspected area to look for the UFO but it did not find anything there," defence sources said.

The proposals were approved by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) meeting attended by Defence Minister Rajanth Singh, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan and the three services chiefs and senior officials, defence officials told ANI. 

Indian Air Force to participate in Exercise Orion at Mont-de-Marsan in France with Rafale replacing Sukhoi Su-30MKI as lead aircraft

Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, N. Ram had desperately tried to create an anti-Modi narrative by digitally altering some documents to make the Rafale deal look suspicious.