Anyway, let us not belabor under this really benign matter, what is important is that theaJpanese have chosen India as the first country to offer their high tech military wares, which is very significant.
That's very true, buddy. So much so that their companies have started considering Tibet as our state.
But jokes apart, Japanese collaboration and an expansion of global supply chain with Japan, South Korea, possibly ASEAN with a mix from Russia, France and Israel would ensure that while we move towards a "Universal parts commonality" pattern for most of our goods (maybe of different companies and countries but share a lot of commonality), but also ensure that no player has too much political dominance over the buyer like in Cold War days.
You guys have the Su-30MKM base which is common to what we operate. So we could even consider a stock-of-parts inventory assured in south India where Malaysian air force personnel can have an assured supply from instead of waiting for it to come from Russia all the way. So we expand our supply chain.
The sam goes for Japanese offer. While the ShinMayawa US-2 is only being exported now, starting with us Indians we could order a dozen of them for our Navy and create an effective supply chain with Japanese. Maybe you Malaysians and other southeast countries such as your neighbors can also acquire these for your navies. This would ensure that the unit cost of the product comes down, there's a wide distribution of suppliers of parts so that there's no political domination on customer countries.
We will have to take certain drastic measures at political level for purchases like this if we have to be careful of a certain someone rising "peacefully".
