NEW DELHI — India is likely to start receiving MBDA’s MICA missile beginning in 2015, a senior defense ministry official says. “We are hoping that MBDA will expedite its delivery of the MICA missiles to mount on the 51 Mirage 2000H aircraft that are being upgraded by France’s Thales and Dassault jointly with Bangalore-based Hindustan Aeronautics,” the official says.
Faced with a huge shortfall of anti-tank missiles and the delayed induction of the indigenous Nag missile, India has been scouting for adequate offensive systems.
