If they are selling tech off the shelf then no problem. Like X $ for carbon composite technology, Y $ for stealth technology. No problem with that. But this excuse of buying american weapons as a means to get tech is false equivalence. We will be subsidizing their weapons industry on a large scale in the process, it is not in our interest. Don't buy 10 billion $ worth of weapons to get 1 billion $ worth of tech. Just buy the tech.
@Srinivas_K I heard Parrikar say "the cornerstone of our policy is better relation with US" which means that a subjective decision has been made to play along with the US even before objective decisions were evaluated on their individual merit. So if they choose American weapons now, it will be as a result of their desire to make friends with the US more than anything, of course they will market it to domestic public as an objective and independent decision.
The least we should ask from the US is to use their leverage to crush Italian objections to MTCR, and to reduce IMF cash flow to Pakistan. What is it that we have asked of them in exchange for the money we are giving them? nothing. Obama is still sitting with a pen in his left hand and his black dick in his right hand, just waiting to sign the deal to give 8 F16 to Pakistan. That's the only way this nergo gets boners these days, buy screwing Indian interests. If the cornerstone of our policy is appeasement then why elect a RW government? was the Congress doing a bad job of selling the country? The only difference is that Congress was selling our nation to Russia, BJP is selling it to USA. No other difference, no talk on any out of the box solutions to foreign policy issues, I'm hearing murmurs of finalizing the LOC as a border, same thing Vajpayee was going to do. They aren't even doing anything to do any internal churning, no change in Marxist syllabus, no UCC, nothing. On top of that Rajnath Singh gives statements everyday claiming that there is no ISIS in India because of Muslim family values.
Nothing is going our way, we are making compromises after compromises domestically and internationally.