India to procure 110 fighter aircraft

India will procure 110 fighter aircraft, said the Ministry of Defence on Friday.

Request for Information for procurement of fighter aircraft for Indian Air Force for 110 fighter aircraft has been released by the Ministry of Defence.

"Procurement should have a maximum of 15 percent aircraft in flyway condition and 85 percent will be manufactured in India under 'Make in India", said the Ministry of Defence.

It added that 25 percent fighter aircraft will be twin seat and 75 percent single seat. 

Meanwhile, in a major cyber threat, the website of Ministry of Defence was today compromised as hackers apparently penetrated its security.

The website - https://mod.gov.in/ - was showing error even as characters in Mandarin appeared on it, ANI reported.

The landing page of the website is taking longer than usual time to load and is leading to an error page. There has been no official statement from the Ministry of Defence on the latest developments.

Last year, the website of the Ministry of Home Affairs was also hacked.  The MHA, however, denied any hacking saying it was “down for repair”.

The website is managed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). No one from the MoD and NIC has commented on the matter yet. 

More details are awaited.