India will only buy 36 Rafale fighter jets as they are “way too expensive”, the defence minister said Sunday, dashing lingering French hopes of a larger deal that has been years in the making.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said the previous government’s plans to buy 126 of the fighter jets from French firm Dassault were “economically unviable and not required”.
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