Hell lots of BS in this thread. Soviet union instigated Vietnamese provoking and hating China, its the truth. Vietnam and China used to be brother countries before China and Russia came at loggerheads.
Vietnam choosed to side with Soviet Union instead of China.
To put it simple, Vietnam...
India market is very appreciated by Chinese business men.
India market is very appreciated by Chinese business men.
China is a very difficult case for Indian to understand, we build and consume BMW at the same time. China will be a technology advanced country within 20 years. China has a huge...
We Chinese shall be fully confident with our own fighters, while we shall always be humble as our ancestor teaches us. J10 series fighters will continue evolving before it is totally obsolete. The problem is non of the air force in this planet is wealthy enough to replace their whole 4gen...
Rafale has more hard points.
In my opinion, J10 b is slightly inferior than Rafale in payload and range.
J10b is one of the the top Five medium fighters in the world, without any doubt.
Dude,J10A is a very efficient platform, you seems to bend over backward. PLA will keep updating J10 A in the future , Even old platform like F16 keeps involving at its best. J10b absorbs lots of 5 gen tech from J20 development, much more advanced than J10A interms of fuselage and EW.
There is no war as long as China is more powerful than India. As India is a democracy, it's very hard to persuade every party of India to make some necessary compromisation for border dispute resolution agreement. Still lots of top brass Indians conceived strong hatred toward China due to 1962...
The unit price of updating reaches nearly 48 million, you can image how desperate IAF need sufficient advanced fighters to fill the gap.
We might know how IAF pilots prefer Dassault platform in the M2K updating case.
How do Modi perceive the Rafale deal?
The price of updating M2K to V block 3 version cost IAF 2.4 billion USD, the spending of IAF is mammoth to compensate DRDo's failure to deliver advanced fighters to IAF.