No you wasn't, because I didn't talked, nor asked about the capability of the S400, you just posted that, because you couldn't deny his quote, that was contrary to what you claimed earlier.
No read again. I only posted a rejoinder to your statement. Clearly you need to read carefully. China has S400 taht means ours will help neutralise theirs.
Napakis have nothing, so it works as a force multiplier on the Western front.
By providing the Rafale and S-400, the government is strengthening the Indian Air Force to counter the short falls of our depleting numbers.”
Do note the word
counter. It means
"something that serves to counterbalance or to compensate for something else"
Remember the emphasis,
COUNTERBALANCE. NOT REPLACE.
Clearly ACM of the IAF is positive about 36 Rafales and S400 being helpful in mitigating the squadron shortfall and clearly I agree with him.
And with due respect to Yusuf, ACM IAF's opinion counts more than most of what him, you or I have to say on this matter.
Remember, ACM has also said that against the sanctioned strength of 42 squadrons, we have only 31. That's a damning indictment and a very right one at that.
[QUOTE="Sancho, post: 1451017, member: 9505"The issue is not the S400 (which China btw also has), but that he has to put it in relation to counter the lack of fighters and that is a result of
MMRCA cancellation, a bad G2G deal, cancellation of SE MMRCA and now the U turn to MMRCA 2.0, which will further delay procurements till after the election and put IAF in disadvantage.[/QUOTE]
Those are your opinions.
IAF was at an an disadvantage when the original contract to purchase Mirage 2000s was curtailed in 1980s, when the initiative to purchase 126 Mirage 2000-5s was nixed in 2001-02 because some bleeding
babu argued that Mirage 2000-5 was a different plane from Mirage 2000!!! and hence a follow up order was not possible.
IAF was at an an disadvantage when after the shortlisting in January 2012, the government of the day failed to sign a agreement with the preferred bidder by 2014!! For a full two years.
IAF was at an an disadvantage when the government of the day showed alacrity in purchasing US made C130s and C-17s and P8Is for billions but somehow failed to act quickly once a French/European product was shortlisted in the combat jet project.
And how does IAF come into advantage if the current deal is stymied because of ill-informed politics and vested interests and giving the snail's pace of the Indian
babudom, the next process can take over a decade with no guarantees that anything will happen?
