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India Places $8.6 billion Jet Order Amid Failed Defenses

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Sep 26, 2016
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At the end of a week when India has been agonizing to little effect about how to deal with a deadly attack on an army camp near the Pakistan border in Kashmir that should never have been allowed to happen, the government has signed a US$8.66 billion deal with Rafale of France for 36 fighter jets that will have only a limited effect on the under-equipped…

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