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The biggest thing India can offer to China is support on SCS, officially Indian and Chinese position at UN align as both India and China are against FONOPS in territorial waters but India has been playing a double game by temporary backing the US. This is a huge concern for China as outside of...

durrani is a genius! masterclass performance..

Sure but can Pakistan buy them en masse? I think you guys made a good play utilizing CSF credit to buy them when you could thus utilizing fund before Congress closed that avenue for military purchase. In such a scenario US would be happy selling engines, Some sale is better than no sale. At...

Don't think it is a problem though when we are selling you guys top shelf choppers ourselves

Fair enough. I assumed there would be some kind of engineer holding pool

become a treaty ally Treaties are only worth as much as the enforcing entity. The fact remains US is alone capable of that enforcement

Perhaps I wasn't clear, I meant both being Govt agencies and drawing scientists from the same pool of Govt Engineers and scientists

Don't they have access to similar if not same pool of HR?

India is using US fear of China? While on planet earth - China is next door to India and US is continents away. Worst case scenario for US- We leaves you guys to fend for yourself. Worst case scenario for India - combined Sino-Pak invasion kicking Indian butt! and there is nothing India can do...

No it's not but you guys buying Chinese avionics given them legitimacy and gives you a leverage which you can cash in later. My argument is not made from a technical stand point but political. So while you are right in wanting the best, there is also an argument to be made for a long game.

Did we? All India has, it has thanks to US. Without US there would be no nuclear waiver at NSG, No MTCR. All the UNSC and NSG hopes would not even have been born. Where was India before it's rapprochement with US? Dependent on aid and a minor league player even below Pakistan in almost all of...

IMHO this is a short term tactic rather than a strategy. China is likely to achieve parity with Europe in coming years when it comes to critical defense tech. It would have been better to go for Chinese pods even if they are sub-optimal and work with them to improve the product so as to gain...

Have a look at how many major defence deals we have closed with India in past 10 years and how many France has closed. That's the problem with Europe, you guys are too stubborn and lack that final push and leverage. US on the other hand as huge portfolio of economic, political and defense levers...

Yeah, true. The break is yours. There is nothing really much to talk about as Manticore said I dont believe the JF-17 or for that matter any Chinese origin Jet brochure. I will look forward with great interest when JF17 enters into competitive bidding by third parties. Chances are low, as till...

I wouldn't put it so harshly but pilots are like mothers, they think their jets are the best. So their word cant be taken at face value.

Thanks for providing the source. With all due respect to manticore, the source as i suspected is not based on technical on -field evaluation but quotes and such. I can't really fault it as JF-17 has never been involved in competitive bidding process where a neutral party evaluates each claim...

Three things 1. What does the Chart prove? 2. Source of the chart? 3. Article has speculation and quotes? Lot of people make optimistic plans. Seldom do they pan out according to schedule.

This! This is the correct and sensible answer. JF-17 is the right choice due to 100 other reasons but you can't diss off other products just because you have chosen JF-17.

any progress on Future Main BattleTank procurement? All this is a holding action. Will be indeed interesting to see if India again goes back to it's D(R/O)DO or this time gulps down it's pride and lets new players come in 2/3 configuration

Well anyplace else you would be laughed out of the room but here baseless assertions will get you brownie points. As for facts - Show me block 3 prototype? DO you seriously believe that a jet which has not closed it's avionics, propulsion and structure validation can enter serial production in...