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The first batch of five Rafale jets arrived in India on July 29, nearly four years after India signed an inter-governmental agreement with France.

The second batch of Rafale jets — the first western combat aircraft to join the fleet 23 years after the Sukhoi aircraft from Russia — has arrived in India, the Air Force tweeted this evening. The jets had covered the 7,000-odd km flying non-stop from France, the IAF posted after the three aircraft landed.

Second batch of IAF #Rafale aircraft arrived in India at 8:14 pm on 04 Nov 20 after flying non-stop from France.

— Indian Air Force (@IAF_MCC) November 4, 2020

The conveyance had begun almost four years after India consented to a between legislative arrangement with France to secure 36 airplanes at an expense of ₹ 59,000 crores.

The enlistment of each of the 36 planes will be finished by 2023, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria has said.

The principal group of five planes had shown up in India on July 29. That time, the planes had refueled midair and made a visit to Al-Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates.

Around 3 in the early evening, they had arrived at an exceptional water gun salute at the Ambala airbase.

“Welcome home ‘Brilliant Arrows’. Blue skies consistently,” the Indian Air Force tweeted with a photograph of the Rafales in the “Bolt development”. The IAF had additionally tweeted a sound bite of the Rafale armada’s trade with a maritime warship as they crossed the Indian Ocean.

The armada, involving three single-seater and two twin-seater airplanes, were to be essential for the No. 17 Squadron of the Air Force, otherwise called the ”Golden Arrows’.

The planes were the feature of the 88th commemoration of the Air Force a month ago. The recently drafted armada has additionally been doing forays in eastern Ladakh, where Indian and Chinese soldiers have been occupied with an unpleasant go head to head for quite a long time.