Bangalore: India will pick by mid-December a Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft ( MMRCA) in a multi-billion dollar deal, the Indian Air Force chief, Air Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne, said Friday.
"By mid-December we should have very good sense of who has been selected," Browne told reporters here without naming the two competing aircraft - Eurofighter Typhoon and Dasault Rafale - whose commercial bids were opened Nov 4 in New Delhi.
Of the original six bidders, the defence ministry short-listed in April European consortium EADS Cassidian (Typhoon) and French Dassault Aviation (Rafale) for the estimated $10 billion (Rs.50,000 crore) contract to supply 126 fighters to the Indian Air Force ( IAF).
"In another four weeks, we should be able to wrap-up the deal as a lot of work is going on and we are calculating hard," Browne said on the margins of a conference on aviation medicine.
The four other contending aircraft were the F-16 of Lockheed Martin, F/A-18 of Boeing, MiG-35 of Russian United Aircraft Corporation and Gripen of Swedish SAAB.
18/11/11 IANS/Economic Times
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