there is a difference between developing a program or software and database nadra has the data base we need to software to compare the finger prints thought it seems a lot to me for such a program
and money to we are talking large scale investments for these dams we don't have any say involve turkey china and Korea & japan to invest and run the projects
i thought the indian MKI where to counter the Chinese MKK and the MARCA was to fill up the gap between the MKI and the MIGS 29 it seems to me they are mig 29 replacements or india planes to buy mig35 of built new ones to replace the old ones each fighter jset has its own life span when it ends...
yes two years till 2014 the first LCA will be inducted buy that time the current ratio the PAF would have 150 at least not to mention we have 49 operational and 50 china will built at no cost and 100 by 2013 at that rate the jf17 will replace the half of the F7 and mirages to the question...
mig 21 are not replaced my MKI the are in totally different category regarding the commendable job of Indian air force to keep these birds flying in what all air force do but he problem is the the inertial LCA was to replace the migs which not gonna happen until 2015 lets just say India should...
PAF should have been working on ram jet by now with china need long range missile with totally fire and forget SD10 in medium range need 145 of 160 km missiles the JF17 hard points are the bottle neck over here i think the current version can be modded with 2 more hard points may be three one...
seems the Indian migs are to old even with BVR and other capabilities its hard for Indian air force to keep them in the air tejas is the only replacement but the projects taking to much time they better buy jets form third party country to replace these migs Mirages 2000 and amarican F16 may be ;)