Someone please do a reality check for all the Indian Vatniks here.
The Ukraine - Russia conflict will eventually end, one of the two parties would win and everyone would be happy.
But what about the military of the country where these Indian Vatniks live? How're they going to feel when they realise that 90% of the tank fleet lacks cook-off protection? Or the fact that airforce is slowly moving to either Western platforms or indigenous ones? Or maybe the fact that still mainstay of our IFV/APC is aluminium skinned finicky BMPs? Or perhaps the after sales services of most of the Russian equipment?
India tried for decades to buy more western equipment,but was blocked by the USA because they were supplying Pakistan instead. India bought what they could get so were forced to go to the Russians.
Lots of european weapons had US components:
In the 70s, India worked hard to acquire the Viggen, which was ultimately blocked by the US, due to distrust of India's relations with the USSR. In the end India went with the UK-French SPACECAT Jaguar. Lets say in this alternative history, the US did not block the sale, and it went through...
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There was lots of pressure to stop European countries supplying weapons and the European weapons supplied had to have no US technologies. The world's biggest democracy was under a stealth weapons ban for decades. Those countries you have so much faith in, built up China's manufacturing,economy and technology sectors giving their biggest competitor a huge advantage. China is a dictatorship. India got criticised all the time unlike China who in 1989 trampled protestors and had no push back.
Only because the same countries are concerned with China,now they will sell India some weapons. But will they sell India the best weapons? Will they give technology transfer? No they will not. But they invested in the high technology manufacturing in China,putting India at a disadvantage.
How can a person on an Indian forum not know this?
But India despite this still managed to beat their competitors with 3rd rate equipment. India will replace the old Russian equipment with its own slowly but surely.
And the Chinese tanks probably turret toss just as well.