India; Air Force Chief denies MMRCA tender cancellation

While India’s Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat said May 15 that India would buy an additional Air Force Chief of Staff R.K.S. Bhadauria says the tender for 114 foreign fighters would be completed. The MMRCA fighters to be built under Make in India, alas, due to the fact that it was a “different class” of fighter than the LCA which would be built in India and not imported. Bhadauria said the global responses to the tender were being analysed after which they would go to the government for the grant of Acceptance of Necessity (AoN). “We will finalise the way forward on the 114 tender.”