Damn. This was the only thing I did not want to happen. China getting state of the art, modern aircraft.
48 is too many, wtf is the Indian lobby in Russia doing?
Perhaps the Super MKI will push it far ahead of the Su-35, quite like how US keeps saying they will sell F-16s to PAF because a squadron or two of advanced aircraft won't really make a difference to IAF.
But yeah. It kills the claims of the Chinese internet army, that their technology even compares to Russia let alone the rest of the world. Time to remind them they are little babies in this field too.
Do you know what is the most tricky part of this article?
According to the paper, the only obstacle remaining is Moscow's demand that Beijing should guarantee the protection of copyrights on the production of Su-35s without proper licensing.
If you were smart enough, you could have sensed that Russians are making up stories. This is a hint that Russian might be lying.
The names are too big to be ignored.
There is no indication suggesting PLA is interested in Su35,
Nothing PLA does is open to scrutiny. We know about a Su-35 deal only because Russia revealed it.
Everyone knows it is not a potent aircraft, Indians know it ( you knocked it out of the contest at the very beginning), so do we.
Su-35 was never evaluated in India, so there is no question of rejection. If is just that the MKI is very similar to the Su-35 and it makes no difference if we go for the BM when we have Rafales and PAKFAs coming up next.
To be honest, I don't want this deal to happen. But I doubt GOI's opinion matters in this case. For sure, there will be a lot of hurt egos in your country if this deal happens.