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Can you back up any of your claims about the hornet failing with official claims by the Indian government ? You put a whole lot of information that I never read...
What backup ? It's common sense. for a guy who claims to have the second most critical thinking abilities after Obi wan Kenobi it should have been obvious.
The six contenders were tested in the same fashion in three different climes (desert, sea level and high altitude) over 9 months w.r.t to 643 different technical parameters and based on that four were rejected in April 2011.
The entire technical evaluation was transparent and the results were sent out to all the vendors after the down select. So if there was any discrepancy other than genuine technical snags then the respective vendor would have appealed against the decision because this was too big a deal to back off without a fight.
What happened ? All the four vendors LM, Boeing, Saab and Mig accepted the report and remained silent. This shows without an iota of doubt that they indeed did not match upto the Rafale and EF in many parameters which the IAF desired.
Russia did not agree to your sanction you say? Then tell us why Russia did not offer you a civilian nuke deal or why they did not go against the NSG to supply you uranium prior to the US opening the door?
Because lets face, Russia was not the Soviet Union and did not have the diplomatic clout US had. But nevertheless they did not impose any economic, military sanctions on us and so did the French.
It's one thing to be unappreciative but another to be willfully ignorant. Btw do you know that a decade from now you need the aussie supply? You don't do you.? None of the others can give you the quantity or grade of uranium you need given your robust expansion of your nuclear plants planned. I know more about about your country . LOL. You don't even know why the Indian govt was aggressive in asking the Aussies to export its uranium. Here you sit India and you have no clue why India wanted the Aussies to export to them. How shameful?..
India wanted the Aussies to export them because the Aussies not exporting was perceived to be contradictory to the "clean waiver" NSG granted India and to Australia's own desire for strategic relationship with India.
Other than that the quantity of the Uranium itself did not play much role as between France, Russia, kazakhstan, Namibia, Mongolia and ourselves we have more than enough Uranium for our present and future needs.BTW if you are indeed as well versed in international affairs as you claim you must know after the initial reqeust Indian Govt could not care less for Aussie Uranium and it was the Australian mine lobby which pressured their own govt into selling India, Uranium not wanting to loose the huge market in India.
