Letter to BS: Nobody questioning capabilities of Rafale fighter aircrafts

Are the two serving IAF officers publically debunking the critics?

With the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the plea on the Rafale deal next week, the remarks by top serving Indian Air Force (IAF) officers against the critics of the deal are totally misdirected. Nobody is questioning the capabilities of the Rafale fighter aircrafts as such. The controversy is over the questionable manner in which the government settled for just 36 aircraft jettisoning the IAF’s studied estimate of its dire need for 126 of such aircraft. Does it make the IAF top brass happy with the uncertainty looming large over the remaining 108? 

The government’s claim that the Dassault was free