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Navy's jets are limited in number and ammunition. You need 2000 sortie per day to have an effective bombing mission. Carriers don't have the required amount of fuel for even 1 day of such intense sorties (2000x3ton = 6000ton fuel). Also, number of jets per carrier is limited to about 50 which...

Rafale has GaAs AESA, not GaN AESA. Gold plated canopy is not new technology. EW suite is mostly software and France is unlikely to give the codes. Also, India is well capable of making EW on its own.The airframe of Rafale is 4th generation without stealth. Avionics is nothing special in Rafale...

It isn't money but dependency. Buying Rafale will make India dependent on France which is unacceptable. In war, France may demand 1billion dollars for rafale, knowing that India has no choice. Dependency will allow France to extort. So, the reason for buying low number of rafales is to avoid...

India is not moron to buy300 rafalesinstead of developing own planes

Economy is built around defence, not other way around. If India can make 50lakh automobiles a year, these 3carrier is nothiing. Cost will reduce as industry consolidates

Do you understand that the carrier is a future plan rather than present? Why do you think that the future will have low defence budgets? The defence budgets may increase as Indian defence technology and manufacturing matures. Also, developing a MIC as the mainstay of the Indian economy is also a...

Why do you only speak negatively without giving any numbers or statistics and always speak about some random future probability? Who are you to decide if India can afford anything or not? Also, how is it expensive to buy Indian AMCA when the cost is going into India itself as employment...