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Never heard of this. Got a source to back this up? There was no AESA or upgraded engines considered for the Mirage-2000 upgrade AFAIK. There was a French Mirage-2000 used as a test bed for the Rafale's RBE-2 AESA radar but that was just a flying testbed, nothing more.

Not any longer. The MiG-29UPG has much higher uptime and RD-33 Series 3 MTBO is much higher. Plus spares are stocked in India and RD-33 MRO is done in India itself which has drastically improved the availability. It is not without any reason that the IAF was about to buy 21 stored MiG-29...

Not true. I don't think you're aware of the details. The Jaguar was a DPSA for the IAF, a strike jet. It was acquired in the late 1970s and HAL had already started manufacturing them when the IAF bought Mirage-2000s in the mid 1980s to counter the PAF acquisition of the F-16A. The Mirage-2000...

What are you even talking about?? Did I mention MiG-29K?? I was talking about the IAF's MiG-29A Baaz that was procured in the 1980s and effectively torpedoed the Mirage-2000 license assembly plans. The MiG-29A gave the IAF severe headaches in the early 1990s with premature failures of the...

They were given that opportunity by our own people. They fell for it looking at the lower upfront acquisition costs and then paid for it heavily with the very poor availability of the MiG-29 fleet during the years of the Soviet breakup. Took ages to fix the several deficiencies that the MiG-29...

They should have gone ahead with it. It was the single worst decision made by various Govts and the MoD as well as the IAF. They fell for the MiG-29's performance and eventually ended up screwing themselves by letting go of that license manufacture opportunity. Tejas was going on irrespective...