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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
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So on the CAG report on #Rafale it seems

1) the process violation happened during the UPA ...unsurprising.
2) the Rafale failed the ASQR as I'd said it had (The reasons for it's selection were the Sukhoi Failure & nuclear delivery as I said it was) but the UPA persisted in negotiating & tying us down to the aircraft
3) the report is clear that the final aircraft is NOT the same as the evaluated aircraft that failed the ASQRs... it is HEAVILY modified
4) under the UPA the ministry was lying ... gee no surprises there
5) by 2015 the deal was a total wreck that needed to be salvaged, because it had been taken so far.
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