If the signature due to this sales contract with India, scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, is confirmed, this will be for Dassault e to the Rafale, its largest export order. Recall that, by 2015, Qatar and Egypt had acquired each twenty-four devices.
The series of the nine years of negotiations :
August 2007
India to officially launch a call for tenders colossal to renew its fleet of combat aircraft, comprising of MiG-21 Russian aging. It provides for the purchase of 126 aircraft, 18 of which must be provided directly to India and the 108 other built on site. Are running the Rafale of Dassault Aviation, the Typhoon from european consortium Eurofighter, the MiG Russian, the F/a 18 IN Super Hornet from Boeing, the F16 from Lockheed Martin and the Gripen, the Swedish company Saab.
April 2009
India excludes Dassault from the competition, on the ground that the Burst has not completed all of the required criteria during the evaluation of the techniques.
May 2009
New Delhi back into the Burst in the tender, Dassault has “brought the answers” to his questions.
April 2011
India préselectionne the Rafale and the Typhoon, eliminating the four other aerospace manufacturers.
January 2012
New Delhi announced that Dassault had won its tender for 126 combat aircraft, and prepares exclusive negotiations with the French group signed a contract for the command.
June 2012
India and Dassault began officially thees exclusive negotiations on the purchase of 126 Rafale.
February 2013
The indian press referred to a signature potential of the contract before march 31, (end of the fiscal year in India), but the CEO of Dassault, Eric Trappier, said that he hoped to conclude negotiations “in 2013″. A responsible indian military evokes mid-2013. Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh says his side as the negotiations “are progressing well”, during a State visit to India of French president François Hollande.
February 2014
The negotiations protracted. An indian minister warns that it will be for the next government to finalize the contract, after the parliamentary elections scheduled in may. These lead to a change of majority, Narendra Modi taking the head of the government.
December 2014
The French Defence minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, meeting for the first time, his new indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar. They agree on “ to conclude quickly,” the negotiations.
April 2015
Coup de théâtre: at the end of a long suspense, Narendra Modi’s announcement during a visit to Paris an agreement providing for the purchase of 36 combat aircraft Rafale by India, all made in France. At the same time, Mr. Modi ensures that “the negotiations on the original agreement”,
126 aircraft, “continue”. But after a few days, Manohar Parrikar evokes the failure of these discussions, declaring a india tv that “the process is blocked, it struck a wall and has not given any result”.
June 2015
The negotiations on the purchase of 36 Rafale will of here “two to three months,” said Mr Le Drian. – January 2016) India and France concluded an agreement on the acquisition of 36 Rafale, during a new visit of president Hollande in India. But the financial arrangements are still not settled.
February 2016
The negotiations on the purchase of 36 Rafale comes up always on the prize, and may yet last a few months, warns the indian minister of Defence.
April 2016
The CEO of Dassault Aviation said that the contract could be signed “in the coming days”.
September 2016
The contract has been approved by the government of india and will be “formally signed by the French Defence minister and his indian counterpart on 23 September in New Delhi”.
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