Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will buy 36 Rafale jets from France in fly-away condition soon.

The deal struck with France will bring some relief to the Indian Air Force into which they will be inducted within two years, Parrikar said.

 Modi had said in Paris that India will buy 36 Rafale fighter jets in flyaway condition from France at the earliest by “keeping in view the critical operational necessity of fighter aircraft in India.

Fighter jets will be inducted into IAF within a span of two years. No reason has been given for the same.

The original deal, with an estimated cost of USD 20 billion, was for delivery of 126 fighters, including 18 off-the-shelf by Dassault, and 108 to be manufactured in India under licensed production by the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) over time, with 50 percent offset obligations to benefit the domestic aerospace industry.