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The last official update from the defence ministry on the French Rafale aircraft categorically stated that the negotiations - the inter-governmental agreement and the offset contracts - are ‘yet to be finalised’. The details such as transfer of technology through offsets will emerge only after these negotiations are completed, defence minister Manohar Parrikar said in the Parliament on July 19. The Rafale medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) manufactured by Dassault will have advanced features like Advanced Electronic Scanned Array (AESA) radar, mid-air refuelling and advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) equipment as a part of its design. It is still unclear which of these following technologies will be shared with the Indian private companies.
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