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PL-15 is inferior to AMRAAM 120D. Chinese are even behind russians forget Americans. as for 'raptor' of the East it still is SU 30MKI.
PAF ain't matching it anytime soon. You can call rafale nightmare of the east though (:-)
This must be a genetic think if so many of yall are like this.
 

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France’s PNF orders judicial probe into Rafale jet deal with India​

05 Jul 2021 (Last Updated July 6th, 2021 16:38)
India had signed an $8bn deal on 23 September 2016 to procure 36 Rafale jets from Dassault Aviation.

France’s PNF orders judicial probe into Rafale jet deal with India
India expects to complete the induction of 36 Rafale aircraft into its airforce by 2022. Credit: Aksveer
A judicial investigation has been ordered by France’s national financial prosecutors’ office (PNF) to look into alleged ‘corruption’ and ‘favouritism’ in the Rs590bn ($7.94bn) Rafale fighter jet deal with India.
French investigative website Mediapart reported probe has been ordered after fresh reports on suspected wrongdoings in the deal and a complaint filed by Sherpa, a France-based financial crime specialist non-governmental organisation (NGO).
India’s current National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had signed a deal on 23 September 2016 to procure 36 Rafale jets from French aerospace firm Dassault Aviation.

This deal was signed by India after an almost seven-year exercise to procure 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) for its airforce did not materialise.
Mediapart reported: “The highly sensitive probe into the inter-governmental deal signed off in 2016 was formally opened on June 14th.”

The news agency further reported: “The criminal investigation led by an independent magistrate, an investigating judge, will, among other elements, examine questions surrounding the actions of former French president Francois Hollande, who was in office when the Rafale deal was inked, and current French president Emmanuel Macron, who was at the time Hollande’s economy and finance minister, as well as the then defence minister, now foreign affairs minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian.”
On earlier occasions, Dassault Aviation and India’s Ministry of Defence had denied allegations of any corruption in the deal.
In 2019, India’s Supreme Court too dismissed petitions urging for an investigation into the deal, citing that there was sufficient ground for it.

 

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Air Forces Monthly, Issue 402, Sept 2021, Page 25
 
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