certainly looks like a snub!
these war games dont just get decided at a drop of a hat or one fine morning people call up each other and say, hey lets have some fun, come over with your sailors, its been such a long time! without a doubt there would be people involved in planning these exercises out well in advance and even if this exercise was to be called off, the same should have been communicated well within time.
something's just not right happening here and if this is the real thing, indians made a blunder of a mistake by rejecting f18s.
or is it that the indians went there to pick up something that was to be brought back only under navy's escort and all this was communicated and planned well before ................. ah well, we need our resident kgb ................ avi to get us the scoop ............. till then everyone have a good night sleep!