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India has said it will cancel a signed contract in early September with Dassault for the supply of 126 "the Rafael sales ' worth from 20 to 22 billion dollars, if France refuses to supply" Mistral " to Russia.

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La France finally seems to be moving towards compliance with the contract. According to Russian media Vesti and Interfax citing diplomatic and military sources, the PCB Vladivostok could be transmitted to Russia on November 27 and then he would go to the military port of Kronstadt, near St. Petersburg, escorted by the training ship Smolny.
However, a source close to the matter said that " November 27 remains a tentatively date the final decision is always owned by Francois Hollande . "The Vladivostok is currently in the form-lock Joubert and according to the Russian sailors corroborating sources have transferred to their personal affairs from Wednesday, November 19; until they could do because the French were concerned that they will go away with the ship.
Moreover Russia has appointed 21 November responsible for the transfer of the first Mistral in Russia; it is the Vice Admiral Aleksandr Fedotenkov , born in 1959 and spent most of his career in scuba Soviet and Russian fleet. A symbol. Although it was probably because it was named in 2009 commander of the naval base in St Petersburg.
It must be admitted that France has little choice. Unsuitable for Canada (or any Western Fleet) as performed by Russian standards , too expensive for NATO 's Mistrals PCBs can only be sold to Russia. Furthermore, France could have retouver to pay huge compensation - up to 10 billion euro s while losing the confidence of international partners, including future contracts with Brazil, India and China. India has reported in early September that it would cancel the contract with Dassault for the delivery of 126 Gusts 20 to $ 22 billion if France refused to deliver the PCB Mistrals to Russia.

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Mistral row: France risks losing Rafale contract in India

France risks losing a contract to supply 126 fighter jets to India due to its refusal to deliver Mistral-class ships to Russia, a leading French analyst told the Delovoi Peterburg website. French officials said this week that they will not deliver the first Mistral-class amphibious warship that Russia had ordered as part of a $1.7 billion agreement for weapons sale.

The biggest repercussion would be a loss of reputation for France as a reliable supplier, Arnaud Dubien, a Russia research associate at the Institut de relations Internationales et Strategiques said. “Officials from the French Ministry of Defence, in private conversations acknowledge that if they fail to deliver the Mistral to Russia, then France will lose its contract to supply 126 fighter jets to India,” Dubien said.

Dubien believes that the decision of French President Francois Hollande, to suspend the delivery of the Mistral, is not final, and was taken under tremendous pressure from the United States and Germany. He added that a final decision would be taken by November on the delivery of the warships, and a lot would depend on how the situation in Ukraine panned out.

A source in the Indian Defence Ministry said that India was “watching the developments closely.” The source added it was too early to say if this would factor into the government’s decision to sign a contract. “When such a large amount of money is paid and then a supplier uses geopolitics to delay or suspend deliveries, it does raise eyebrows,” the source said.

India is continuing its final negotiations for acquiring 126 French Rafale fighters in a deal that would cost around $22 billion. France’s Dassault Aviation won a bid to supply India with Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircrafts and a final contract is being dubbed as the “mother of all deals,” by many sections of the Indian media. Russia, Britain, the U.S. and Sweden have all made attempts to re-enter the race to sell their aircrafts.

Indian Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha told the Hindustan Times that a deal for the Rafale is “going to happen soon.” Industry watchers in Delhi however say that there will be growing pressure to reconsider France given the volte-face the country made this week when it came to the supply of the Mistral ships to Russia.

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NEW DELHI: Ahead of President Vladimir Putin's visit here early next month, India has told Russia to come back with a plan to substantially reduce the delivery timeframe for the stealth fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) if it wants to seal the futuristic project by next year.

The plan till now was that India would begin inducting the stealth fighters only 94 months — at the earliest — after the two countries inked the final design and R&D contract, which itself has already been delayed by over two years by now.

"Russia has now been told that India cannot wait for a decade to get the FGFA. The delivery schedules should be compressed instead of IAF waiting for the FGFA till 2024-2025. The Russians will probably respond during Putin's visit," a defence ministry source said on Monday.

As was first reported by TOI, India is already upset with Russia for not giving its experts "full technological access" to the FGFA project despite being an equal funding partner. The final design contract, which is yet to be inked after missing the mid-2012 deadline, envisages the two countries chipping in with $5.5 billion each towards designing, infrastructure build-up, prototype development and flight testing.

With the 127 single-seat FGFA that IAF wants costing extra, India will spend around $25 billion on the entire project. India had already spent $295 million on it after inking the preliminary design contract with Russia in December 2010.

The Indian "perspective multirole fighter" is to be based on the under development Russian FGFA called PAK-FA or Sukhoi T-50, which undertook its first flight-test in January 2010, but will be tweaked to IAF's requirements.

As per the initial plan, with Indian scientists and experts also being based in Russia, the Ozar facility of Hindustan Aeronautics in Nashik was to get three FGFA prototypes in 2014, 2017 and 2019 for test-flying by IAF pilots. The final production was to begin only around 2022. All these timelines, of course, have gone awry with the final design contract yet to be sealed.

With IAF down to just 34 fighter squadrons, when at least 44 are required, alarm bells have finally begun to clang loudly in the Indian defence establishment over the long delays in all its three fighter induction projects.

The indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft, first approved in 1983, for instance, will get final operational clearance only by mid-2015. But IAF will get what it actually wants, the four Tejas Mark-II squadrons, from 2022 onwards.

Negotiations for the almost $20 billion MMRCA (medium multirole combat aircraft) project for 126 Rafale fighters, too, are stuck with France yet to accept full responsibility for the 108 of the jets to be produced in India. "MoD wants at least two of the three projects (FGFA, LCA and MMRCA) to be speeded up," said a source.

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Russian Navy Holds Exercises In The Channel

HMS Tyne trails four Russian vessels passing between Britain and France, after Paris refuses to hand over a helicopter carrier.

Russian naval vessels have staged a drill in the English Channel, according to a state news agency.

RIA Novosti reported that the Northern Fleet squadron, lead by the anti-submarine ship Severomorsk, had passed through the Straits of Dover after a week of exercises in the North Sea.

They were watched by the patrol ship HMS Tyne and complied with all orders as the stayed clear of British territorial water.

"We are aware that four Russian naval ships have passed through the Dover Strait from the North Sea into the English Channel, which all ships have the right to do under international law," the Ministry of Defence said......

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