Rassil Krishnan
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the f16 is at the end of its life though and we are aiming for newer generation cutting edge weapons or weapons we have a lacuna in case of development.p8 belongs in the latter.nrsam also goes against our interests as we already have s400 which fits our requirement against pakistan and it would mean unnessacry duplication and a weapon system we have no interest in using as we have or will develop the capabilities of nrsam.Detect a submarine/ship from P8 and shoot a torpedo- there it becomes an offensive weapon.
We never bought US offensive weaponry because of our own concerns of US meddling into them.
Rafale is also from 80s so is S400, why do people think everything has changed drastically from then?
the F16 is the worst as we will be going backwards in tech .even with current gen upgrades it will derail from our airforce indiginization program.if we are offered something,let it be the latest like f35 which the us offers to its allies,otherwise go with other european countries 4.5 jets which did.
also in the case of the US there is also the fundamental issue that is not seen in other countries where it thinks it can decide a countries foreign policy and domestic policies because it has provided some non strategic weapons.no other countries including other european countries act like this.
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