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As I said Turbomeca engines are not critical tech.Even India gets them, LCH is powered by Turbomeca/HAL Shakti engine. If the Chinese are making European diesel engines indigenously we get to make Scorpenes indigenously,that's an entire submarine not just a submarine engine. This is what is...

Not a surprise , Israel is notorious for this and yet we do not know what subsystem it was or how "critical" it was. Also food for thought, limit all your statements to one post,makes it easier to reply to and fill up the thread so fast. Pre-embargo Sikoskys and illegal arms trafficking is...

Nothing critical about Heli engines.HAL is making that indigenously

Good for the Chinese, yet there's nothing sensitive about the technologies you listed. I'm sure the Chinese belief that they have avionics or engines or experience in airframe designs as good as the Europeans has" some" truth to it. But I'm yet to see the Chinese field anything close to Rafale...

None of those things which Europeans are selling to Chinese can be considered key " weapons" tech How many Rafales have been offered to China ? Eurofighters ? LECLERC ?. I am only aware of India buying NATO weapons by the end of the cold war in 1980s - 1990s or before falling into Soviet...

I am not aware of any European critical technology being sold to the Chinese. Enlighten me.If you are talking about Ukraine, then yes,they are allies with China,and is Europe the biggest supplier of arms to the Chinese ? Weapons sales is how allies are made in the new world, India got close...

F-35 is a 5th Gen Fighter not 4.5 The Su-30MKI cannot designate targets by looking at them,no Russian plane can.F-35 has the best avionics and sensors in the world.Even the F-22 can't match it in that department. The maintenance costs aren't out yet for the F-35 because the supply chain isn't...

I don't think you understand, The PAK FA engine doesn't exist at all.As of now the prototype is flying on AL-41Fs which is a variant of AL-31F,the same engine as Su-30 which has maintenance issues. Izidilye 30 isn't even ready yet. HMDS is available on most modern fighters it's no big deal...

Yes, I agree about our investment should have some returns part and that's why I feel PAK FA shouldn't be discarded,at the end of the day it's still better than 4.5th Gen Fighters in most aspects but it's not ready yet and it will be a long time before it is. It doesn't have the engine that was...

As others have pointed out both PAK FA and FGFA come from the same prototype and even though they are two different although slightly different aircraft they are being developed under the same joint program which India is footing 35% of the bill of and yet our AF hasn't been allowed to test fly...

What presidents say or don't say is irrelevant,what's actually happening between us is what matters U.S has dethroned Russia as our biggest defense supplier. U.S is giving us EMALS for our carrier U.S is an ally,said or un-said is anothee matter entirely

Sad really,we fund the damn thing and they don't even let us test it.

No they haven't mentioned the reason and I don't know any source privy to why the Russians wouldn't allow our pilots to fly it. Whatever the reason be,if it was to be sold they should have let IAF fly it but they didn't and now naturally there's bad blood between IAF and Sukhoi, not to mention...

Roosevelt supported us,put pressure on the Brits to give us freedom,that's more than Stalin did for us. USA gave us twice the amount of help compared to USSR. Russian aid was half the worth of U.S U.S didn't just say they will support us.They did. USAF flew in arms,ammunition and clothing to...

Fine , if you really want to go back in history then I can take you a bit further back. U.S under Roosevelt was one of the few hardcore supporters of India and her freedom movement,so much so that Churchill had to threaten to resign if Roosevelt didn't stop demanding our freedom. In the 50s...

Indeed,they don't have the izidilye 30 engines yet either. Russia could have directed funds into the PAK FA,they chose not to.To them maintaining their nukes and making SAMs was a higher priority

There was no correspondence with Russia about S-400,the Government cleared the purchase so we went to the Russians with a deal and they will deny or accept,remains to be seen. This is how G2G acquisitions work. As opposed to drawing RFPs where private companies come to you. Yes they have...

I expect the Russians to let our pilots test the capabilities of the PAK FA as would any other vendor,to see whether it meets the tall claims of Russians instead of just taking their word for it. We haven't even flown the aircraft once,not even under Russian supervision.

Our PM didn't go to finalize the deal, there was no such deal to begin with. Our PM went to express our interest in acquiring the S-400 As far as the FGFA/PAK FA is concerned it's the Russians who are trying to peddle it as hard as possible,they want us to sign the deal but in all of PAK FAs...

This is standard procedure for Defence deal done on a Government to Government basis. When dealing with private contractors then RFP is drawn.