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Centre clears deal for 42 more Sukhois

The Defence Acquisition Council has cleared the procurement of 42 Sukhoi-30MKI fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force, making India the largest operator of Sukhois in the world by 2018, with more than 300 aircraft.

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The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has cleared the procurement of 42 Sukhoi-30MKI fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF), making India the largest operator of Sukhois in the world by 2018, with more than 300 aircraft.

Defence minister AK Antony told parliament on Monday that the Rs20,107 crore proposal would be submitted before the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) for approval after fine-tuning.
The aircraft, to be procured from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), will be delivered between 2014-2018, and is a repeat order from HAL falling under Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP)-2008.

The ministry of defence (MoD), after announcing the purchase of 250 Sukhois in 2007, ordered 40 more last year, and now a recent purchase of 40, has made the number 330, which would join the service by 2018. Two more aircraft replaced the two Sukhois which crashed last year in April and November. This makes Sukhois the single largest type of aircraft in the IAF’s inventory.

Currently, other countries operating Sukhoi are Russia, Malaysia and China.

A couple of the twin-engined heavyweight modern Russian fighter are currently undergoing modernisation in Russia to have the BrahMos air-to-air missile integrated on it for trials.

A contract to upgrade the existing 100 odd aircraft in the inventory of the IAF is yet to be signed with Russia, which is expected to integrate the AESA radar on the aircraft.

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