Plan to Buy 114 Foreign Fighters, Says Air Marshal Days After CDS's Push for Made-in-India Tejas

Plan to Buy 114 Foreign Fighters, Says Air Marshal Days After CDS's Push for Made-in-India Tejas

Bhadauria on Monday said that the list of aircraft planned to be inducted by the IAF includes 36 Rafales, 114 multirole fighter aircraft, 100 advanced medium combat aircraft (AMCA) and over 200 LCAs in different variants. Days after Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said that the Indian Air Force was planning to the locally-manufactured Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas', Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria contradicted him while detailing a list of planned aircraft. Bhadauria on Monday said that the list of aircraft planned to be inducted by the IAF includes 36 Rafales, 114 multirole fighter aircraft, 100 advanced medium combat aircraft (AMCA) and over 200 LCAs in different variants. Bloomberg had quoted Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat as saying that in order to replace the ageing fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF), 83 more jets will be bought from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). The purchase, in addition to an earlier deal to buy 40 of the aircraft, will cost $6 billion…