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Dassault and Boeing. The original delta planform was Boeing's work, leveraging some of their light fighter work.

OH YEAS - secrets of a canard delta (like the Gripen, the Typhoon and the Rafale) with an engine that is decades old and has seen service with aforementioned Gripen and F18 SHs. FFS. Its D'assault. Their office boys have tougher secrets to keep than Tejas.

Both sides had extremely strong bases for aerodynamics, and then stole everything they could from everyone they could. Nene engines, titanium processing, every nazi scientist and prototype available. Indians did too - Kurt Tank was not after all, from neutral switzerland

Oh yes. The recently formed F35A aggressor squadron at Nellis is entirely made up from birds that cannot be upgraded to FOC standard - they are that different from the now production birds.

S400 included. Its the third best goddamn SEAD bird after the EA18G/F15EX/F35 combo and the F35I - the last because Israeli voodoo.

Tbh, that used to be true pre 2015. Of late forces are spending more than the sanctioned amount. Lots and lots of key acquisitions in armaments, drones, is never announced. Look for all the Israel sold such and such product to an undisclosed south Asian nation for hints.

The MIG29s have been thoroughly upgraded, airframes refurbished, it'll be foolish to let go of the finest air superiority fighter we possess right now after the Rafale (yes MiG29UPG is better than the Su30MKI because of the D29 EW Suite). Keep it till half your Sukhoi fleet is upgraded atleast...

Arreh bhaisaab. Wahi. Rafale.

Interceptor! What year are we in? 1971 ? Is the 104 Starfighter being inducted into PAF? For crying out loud. The Tejas is a true multi role bird - and she excels at ground pounding as per what was observed during GaganShakti. That said, theres enough space in the IAF's vacuum to have Mk2 AND...

It took 15 months from start of program to first flight for the HF24 Marut, a program that was even more daunting in 1961. And induction started from 1967, 7 years from commencement of the program to induction. If we could achieve that in the 60s....

"WILL" ? We ARE laughing stock as far as fighter development is concerned.

No. The very fact that the IN issued a fresh tender for Carrier Borne Fighters means that the MiG 29K (where the hell did you dig up the MiG 35 from?) will never again be ordered. NEVER. Its too much of a headache to operate and in its present config doesn't do justice to the range and payload...

A land based NLCA deployed from A&N (and Assumption island in the future) makes a lot of sense! But carrier deployment seems doubtful.

It's the principle that the Navy is worried over. As it is with the initial issues with the MiG29K, the Navy was forced to operate close to Goa for quite some time. A twin engine fighter with one engine failure, can still recover and bring the plane back - there's a chance, atleast. No such...

The bigger worry is safety issues. SE fighters are a no go unless we have no other choice (we had a bad experience with Harriers as it is, but then, we had no choice)