Amid fighter shortage: Inside story of how Vajpayee worked with rivals to save 1996 Sukhoi-30 deal

Amid the repeated complaints of the shortfall of fighter squadrons in the IAF-- the most recent one being the chief Amar Preet Singh mentioning it on Air Force Day--- watch ThePrint special series 'First Person Second Draft', where Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta tells you the story of how IAF’s Su-30 dream would’ve crashed but for the sagacity of Narasimha Rao, Vajpayee, Jaswant Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav in 1996, originally published on 23 November, 2017.
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