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Attacking Shanghai would definitely up the morale of the the Indian public.. Seeing dead Chinese in Shanghai, would soothe Indians after seeing dead Delhiites.. and hit the aura of invulnerability that Master Xi has tried to create. (The Chinese would think.. Like if a poor state like india can...

The fact that London braved the NAZI air and missile onslaught does not mean, that India will overcome a similar Chinese onslaught.. WW2 is from another era, when there was very little value attached to human life.. Considering how many High value targets like BABUs and bureaucrats, and...

The only plausible way is having SSGNs that can fire Kalibre class cruise missile, at China's economic centers, from South/ east China sea.. Currently long range cruise missiles can threaten the Chinese Megacity of Chengdu.. from the Northeast.. It is less than 1000 km from India's border in...

If IAF is fine with 83 MK1A, then, those guys better buy 5 or 6 squadrons of TEJAS MWF..

Not so soon.. Air Force has been jacking off to MMRCA and now MFRA, for 1.5 decades now.. ASQR to DAC - 1 year.. ( DAC -- CCS -- BABU FROM FINANCE -- CCS Clearance takes

If India's fifth generation fighter comes from Russia, India can say bye bye 👋 to strategic partnership with Uncle Sam, because this will wed Indian Air Force to Russian maal for another forty years, and India will lose whatever support it has in US Congress.. Best way forward, is going for...

There is no sense in going for separate MRFA, other than for geopolitical reasons.. i.e. F-Shola to appease Uncle Sam.. Or it maybe the case, that IAF mamus will sign off on a few squadrons of Tejas MK2 only when GOI commits to a few more squadrons of Rafale..

Luckily I think Putin mama and S-400 S-500, will ensure that US will not sell F-35 to India.. Su-57 is already not a true 5th generation fighter for IAF.. and with the escalation in tensions, between US/EU and Russia, and with US looking on angrily as S-400 lands in India, there is no way India...

I had read somewhere a couple of jaguar squadrons, are retiring this year.. ? only 61 Jaguars being upgraded... so we might have 3 squadrons retiring in the next few years...

Western air forces apart from USA are small airforces riding on Uncle Sam's coat tails.. so they can afford keeping only the cutting edge fighters... Royal airforce has only 10 fighter squadrons.. 9 typhoon and 1 F-35.. even china operates hundreds of J-7 still...

First flight of AMCA prototype in 2025..Production in 2029 -2030...

They will be underpowered.. but will be used.. I came across an article saying 61 aircraft will be upgraded to Darin 3. So, means maybe 3 squadrons would fly longer... and the other 3 will be retired in early 2020s, and their engines cannibalized for maintaining the operational ones...

All India has are 6 squadrons.. what's the point in upgrading to DARIN III if you retire them within a couple of years..? Only the unupgraded older squadrons would be retired in early 2020s .. I guess