People are completely misreading this offer from russia. They have absolutely no intention or hope to sell it to India.Russia is just preparing a ground to justify its sell of Su 35 to china while later will be termed as a downgraded version to pacify india. We like it or not many powerful people within the russian decision making machinery largely favor chinese communistic presence & the depth and sincerity of TOT with china is something which india can only dream. keep trumpeting indo russian honeymoon tale & bashing the evil USA untill we become a completely impotent nation.We rather choosing a road to find friend in europe & US always did our best to stay away from them & now we have no one with us.Its very clear MRCA winner will cheat us. In Su 30mki tot we are very badly cheated FGFA will be a even bigger cheating saga.The end will be the same story ...billions of dollars will leave our country.Almost all the top people in DRDO , HAL and other defense sector management elements are cent percent corrupted.They are twisting & turning the words to make the agreement look suitable and nice to non technical people while the real technicians & scientists have no say in the selection & negotiation process,ironocally they are the people supposed to have the best idea & say about the technology. You all may curse me but only time will tell how far i am wrong & hopefully i am wrong but at this moment i am very sure that a long time back the basic blue print of the best of therussian aerospace tech has been shipped to china. I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE THAT A CHINESE STEALTH JET WILL JOIN PLAAF FOR A PRACTICAL BATTLE FIELD USE (may be even pakistan in small nos) MUCH BEFORE INDIA COMES EVEN CLOSE TO IT. China has a huge lobby in russia & no matter how much india tries for political hob nobing we will ever remain the second choice. Indigenous Kaveri , a good aesa , air to air weapons , mass produced decent cruise missile of 1000 km range , shells , bombs & rockets for our artillery & tanks & navy & iaf , well under ground robast comand & control systems are the only way to deter chinese which no pak fa can.
That's a really outrageous opinion of yours' ! Where was Europe and US since 1947, since when we already fought 4 full scale and one short war with our adversaries on both fronts ? Who helped us in our industrialization, when we almost started from scratch in many areas ? Who helped us equipments, technology, infrastructure, capital in the run up to what we are today ? US on the contrary despised this nation as being a communist stooge, backward, a land of snake charmers and so, and was ever suspicious of us, so much so that it helped our western adversary in an all out manner in both the major wars that we fought with them providing them with all supplies, other than hard cash, which it does even today without any remorse. And Europe, being a part of NATO was nothing more than an US stooge till recently, and most countries there still are. Russia values the relationship with us as much as it does with China, since it knows these two markets are biggest revenue earners for them and will continue to be so for quite sometime. Don't forget that most of the cutting edge equipment that we needed most, was provided for only by the Russians and no one else. All this US-Europe bonhomie with India is not even a decade old, since they have realized that the day is not far when we will eclipse their financial might, and if not, at least we will be on par with them. You don't trust a country that supported us in all our endeavors, provided us with much needed aid when we needed it most, and you have more faith in a country that's started cozying up to us hardly not even a decade back ?? Strange, and weird to say the least !!!
Its an undeniable fact that indigenousness in design, development and production is of supreme importance, no one's denying that. But when we started out, there was only nation standing by our side, and they continue to do so, and I think you very well know which that is !