India to buy only 36 French Rafale 闘士，戦闘機 jets: 大臣
India will only buy 36 Rafale 闘士，戦闘機 jets as they are "way too expensive", the defence 大臣 said Sunday, dashing ぐずぐず残る French hopes of a larger 取引，協定 that has been years in the making.
Defence 大臣 Manohar Parrikar said the previous 政府's 計画（する）s to buy 126 of the 闘士，戦闘機 jets from French 会社／堅い Dassault were "economically unviable and not 要求するd".
"We are not buying the 残り／休憩（する）. We are only buying the... 36," Parrikar told the 圧力（をかける） 信用 of India (PTI) news 機関.
The Rafale 取引，協定 -- 概算の to be 価値（がある） five billion euros ($5.5 billion) -- followed tortuous years-long 交渉s on buying the jets ?Adek Berry (AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
During a visit to フラン in April, Indian 総理大臣 Narendra Modi 発表するd that New Delhi was ordering 36 of the "ready to 飛行機で行く" 計画（する）s.
The 取引，協定 -- 概算の to be 価値（がある） five billion euros ($5.5 billion) -- followed tortuous years-long 交渉s on buying the jets.
But the 購入（する） 協定 fell a long way short of previous 提案s for India to buy 126. 失望させるing 交渉s for that 取引，協定 立ち往生させるd over costs and 議会 保証（人）s.
Parrikar has since played 負かす／撃墜する 期待s of a larger 取引，協定, but his comments on Sunday were some of his strongest yet, 説 buying more of the jets would blow the defence 省's 調達 予算.
"I also feel like having a BMW and Mercedes. But I don't because I can't afford it. First I can't afford it and second I don't need it," Parrikar told PTI.
Parrikar said a 委員会 始める，決める up to nail 負かす／撃墜する 詳細（に述べる）s of 購入（する）ing the 36 would 完全にする its work in the next two to three months.
India has in 最近の years 開始する，打ち上げるd a 広大な defence modernisation programme 価値（がある） some $100 billion, partly to keep up with 競争相手 隣人s Pakistan and 中国.
Since coming to 力／強力にする one year ago, Modi's 政府 has 認可するd a string of 契約s for new 軍の 金物類／武器類 that had 立ち往生させるd under the previous left-leaning 議会 party.
Modi, a 強行路線 国家主義者 首相, also wants to end India's status as the world's number one defence importer and to have 70 パーセント of 金物類／武器類 製造（する）d 国内で by the turn of the １０年間.
