India will not allow Americans or indeed anybody else make india give in with concessions or deviate from its own strategic friends & goals.
India will inform the Americans diplomatically stay out of OUR BUBBLE or go get yourself another regional power as your little lap puppy.
YOUR MIG21 nos are way too high. at 321.
I THINK ITS 125 BISON UPGRADE & 100 OR LESS OLDER MIG21s all of which will be gone by 2012
hence the hurry to induct the 130 mkii asap and order the mrca
No Arsalanslam
LCA hopefull will make the grade and 120 LCA will replace MIG21s and act as low end Num,beer fillers.
If not (and the LCA fails IAF MIN requirements) the drop in nos will be filled by more MRCA/SU30MKI
ie 300 su30mki as oppose 230
200 MRCA as oppose 126...
PLAAF will not have 4000 planes when its no longer a poor mans Air force.
China spenDs over $100 billion a year on military.
They will have a modern Air force of 1500 4th generation fighter by 2015.
500 J10
500 SU27/30/J11..
200 JH7
300 J8
No Developero.
Nobody said anything about developing anything.
But very importantly the IAF can see which of these fighters best fits IAF needs eg,
1. best suits/fits in with the SU30MKI & Phalcon combo.
2. The different extreeme altitudes and climates.
3. How each plane...
I have also herd on other websites IAF may surpise us all and give the contract to GRIPEN.
Based on cost alone this deal will only cost around $8 billion and is a very contemporary fighter.
Should be very interesting one thing is for sure IAF will learn the secrets of all of these very...
Compared to 90% of the world India,s GDP at $1.2 trillion and its defense budget at $32 billion is very large.
in fact 10th largest in the world on both accounts. And rising rapidly
Some of those nos are optimistic.
I believe LCA will be by 2020 will 40 mk1 & 80 mk2 at best. = 120 max
MRCA will not go to Russians it will be F18SH/ OR Typhoon.
YOU also missed the new INDO RUSSIAN TRANSPORT MRRT X 40 PLANES
with regards budget thats no issue even...
OK !!!!! if you guys don,t want to discuss this we should move it i guess !!!
I just thought it may be IMPORTANT development. Because i get the impression that the MMRCA race has genuinely started now with the TESTING.. after years of talk talk and no action.
The Americans have today arrived with their Super Hornets
They are FIRST to arrive to try and win the MMRCA bid.
The Hindu : National : F-18s to fly over Bangalore today
All six contenders will have been and gone over the Next 6 Weeks.
Reports are they will be tested at...
I cant help but feel SOME PEOPLE get very pissed off when they see a vedio or pictures of INDIA,s SU30MKI...
In many ways a real compliment.
I do believe the MKI in particular is not far behind the Typhoon & Rafale but until the MLU in post 2012 is started the EURO CANARDS are ahead...
Applesauce
7 satalites with neat to 20 meteres resolution is better than ZERO SATALITES
Kudos to India AGAIN just like Arihant nuke sub or SU30MKI or Brahmos cruise missles.
Cheap home made Products to counter a Nuclear powered Submarine Fleet of up to 5 warships with enuf warheads to obliterate most of South Asia.
Thats hillarious Lol lol