The French dassault company's "wind" medium multi-purpose fighters, won the Indian air force 126 aircraft for medium fighter jets contract. Canadian media said, and high prices, is currently only French equipment "wind" is China's "ready" for India.
According to a Canadian han and defence review report, India needs to medium multi-purpose fighter, the first priority is important to combat radius and big load the quantity, ranged attack ammunition, especially European modern ranged attack ammunition, and is convenient for the depth of the China to carry out attacks. And Russia MiGe-35 bid the reason for failure is: many of the depth of the distance to attack ammunition can't meet the Indian air force need, more new remote air-to-ground missile has not passed national acceptance, in the quantity, range is still insufficient.
"Wind" 9.5 tons of load the quantity, than the Chinese air force boom-and strategic bombers 9 tons of load the quantity. "Wind" has 13 to 14 rack, carrying two FuYouXiang combat when a radius of 1852 kilometers, only use machines when fuel more than 1000 kilometers, more than "typhoon".