Next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a celebration of Bastille Day in France that will feature three Indian Air Force Rafale fighter jets.
Under an intergovernmental agreement, India purchased up to 26 Rafale jets from France.
This year’s Bastille Day Parade will have PM Modi as its honoured guest. Along with their French counterparts, a tri-services contingent will march in the parade.
On July 14, the planes will take part in a flypast celebrating Bastille Day above Paris’ Champs Elysees.
The Rafale fighters, which can transport a variety of powerful weaponry, are India’s first significant purchase of fighter aircraft in 23 years, following the importation of Sukhoi jets from Russia.
Three Rafale jets from the French Air and Space Force made a strategically significant stopover at the Indian Air Force’s Sulur base in Tamil Nadu in August of last year as part of a massive military operation it conducted in the Pacific Ocean.
The announcement was made on Twitter by Emmanuel Macron, the president of France.
The Ministry of External Affairs revealed last month that Modi will take part in the Bastille Day Parade as the honoured guest.
“The prime minister’s visit is expected to herald the next phase in the India-France strategic partnership by setting new and ambitious goals for our strategic, cultural, scientific, academic, economic cooperation, including in a wide range of industries,” it said.
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