{"id":51,"date":"2011-02-10T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=51"},"modified":"2011-02-10T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:38:27","slug":"eyeing-mega-deal-contenders-spread-their-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Eyeing mega deal, contenders spread their wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: The eighth version of Aero India 2011, kicked off on Wednesday at the Yelahanka Air Force station in Bangalore in a spectacular show with F\/A 18 Superhornet, Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon, F 16 and the Gripen \u00e2\u20ac\u201d five of the six contenders for India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s US$10-billion Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) deal \u00e2\u20ac\u201d putting up a grand display of aerial superpower. Mig 35, the sixth contender, was not seen performing.<br \/>\nThis edition of Aero India is important in the backdrop of the 126 MMRCA deal and the top six contenders vying for the deal are flexing their muscles going out of the way to ensure that their product is noticed and marketed well to the Indian decision makers.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is the biggest show for us this year \u00e2\u20ac\u201d even bigger than Paris or Central Europe shows. It is not always that we bring five of our aircraft at a show,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Joanna Sjolander, in-country director, Saab Gripen, who have for this edition of the show brought three Gripen aircraft along with two commercial planes that include Saab 2000 and 340.<br \/>\nThe case is no different with Eurofighter Typhoon who have a delegation of 10 that includes UK defence equipment minister and high commissioner amongst other officials.<br \/>\n10\/02\/11 Pranav Kulkarni\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/news\/Aero-India-2011--Eyeing-mega-deal--contenders-spread-their-wings\/748314\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore: The eighth version of Aero India 2011, kicked off on Wednesday at the Yelahanka Air Force station in Bangalore in a spectacular show with F\/A 18 Superhornet, Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon, F 16 and the Gripen \u00e2\u20ac\u201d five of the six contenders for India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s US$10-billion Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) deal \u00e2\u20ac\u201d putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-defence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}