17096965 India will extend the tender for the supply of medium sized fighter
Defense Ministry of India has decided to extend the tender for the supply of MMRCA medium multi-role fighters, according to Defense Aerospace. Prolongation may cost India's military budget up to a billion dollars. At the present time for completion of the tender is scheduled for April 30, 2011 – the day ends an offer bidders. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence of India not only chose the finalists of the tender, but not even formed a committee to conduct commercial negotiations. India has already once extended the tender MMRCA. Initially, the contest was to expire April 28, 2010, but was extended because the military failed to timely consider all offers. As part of the tender, India intends to buy 126 fighter jets, which cost depending on the offer range from 10.4 to 12 billion dollars. Because of the magnitude proposed purchase price competition in India earned him the nickname "mother of all deals." The exact date when will be named the winner of the Indian tender, is not yet known. The Ministry of Defence of India earlier announced that it expects to sign a contract with the winner in the summer of 2011. In turn, the commander of the Indian Air Force Pradeep Vasant Naik in February this year announced that the contract would be signed no earlier than September. Earlier, the Indian media also wrote, citing an unnamed defense ministry source, the winner will be announced at the end of 2011 fiscal year, which in India will be completed in March 2012. In the Indian tender for participating U.S. companies Lockheed Martin and Boeing, the European Eurofighter, the French Dassault, Sweden's Saab and Russia's RSK MiG. They suggested that the Indian Air Force fighter jets F-16IN Super Viper, F/A-18 Super Hornet, Typhoon, Rafale, JAS 39 Gripen IN, MiG-35, respectively. In early August 2010 it was reported that the Defense Ministry of India has made a short list of finalists bidding, which came Rafale and Typhoon. Later, the Defense Ministry denied the report.
