5 Rafale jets fly out of France on 7,000 km journey to India, to be refueled midair

The Rafale plane will cowl a distance of practically 7000 kms from France to India with air-to-air refuelling and a single cease en route in UAE.

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The primary batch of 5 Rafale jets took off from France on Monday and can be arriving in India on Wednesday, when the much-awaited fighter jets will formally be inducted and be part of the Indian Air Drive fleet on the Ambala air base in Haryana.


The Rafale plane will cowl a distance of practically 7000 kms from France to India with air-to-air refuelling and a single cease en route in UAE. The Indian Air Drive pilots and supporting personnel have been supplied full coaching on plane and weapon programs by Dassault.

"Beauty and the Beast"- #Rafale Fighter Aircraft. Ready to take off @MEAIndia @JawedAshraf5 @gouvernementFR @Dassault_OnAir @rajnathsingh @DefenceMinIndia @DDNewslive @ANI @DrSJaishankar @PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/TTAi6DHun7

— India in France (@Indian_Embassy) July 27, 2020

The Indian embassy in France mentioned the occasion marked a “new milestone” in sturdy and rising India-France defence cooperation. The embassy additionally launched a brief video titled “Magnificence and the Beast”, showcasing Rafale jets prepared for take off
Indian ambassador Jawed Ashraf was there to see off the Rafale plane.

He additionally met the Indian pilots and congratulated them on changing into the primary ones to fly the world’s most superior and potent fighter plane and wished them success


These 5 Rafale jets are extraordinarily swift, versatile and really lethal plane, they’re each magnificence and beast. I want to thank Dassault for delivering plane on time and French Authorities and French Air Drive for all of the help,” mentioned ambassador Ashraf.

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India ordered 36 Rafale jets from France in a deal price Rs 59,000 crore in September 2016 as an emergency buy to arrest the worrying slide within the IAF’s fight capabilities.


Appearing on a particular request by the IAF, France has accelerated the deliveries of Rafale fighters to India --- 5 jets are coming as an alternative of 4 that have been initially deliberate to be delivered within the first batch.


France handed over to India its first Rafale fighter throughout a ceremony attended by defence minister Rajnath Singh and his French counterpart, Florence Parly, in Merignac on October eight final 12 months.