12 December 2013

News Story: Reliance, Dassault planning facility to produce warplane wings


NEW DELHI (PTI): France's Dassault Aviation and India's Reliance Industries are planning to set up a facility to produce wings of Rafale combat aircraft selected by the Indian Air Force for meeting its requirement of 126 fighter planes.

The two firms are planning to set up a Rs 1,000-crore facility for producing the wings of the Rafale combat aircraft and it is most likely to come up in Bangalore, industry sources told PTI here.

Under the plan, Dassault Aviation would help Reliance to establish the factory similar to its production facilities in France where the aircraft is produced, they said.

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