rethinking on s400 is needed...
russian system can' t intercept at 40km, how about 400 km...
i thing we had talk over it on this forum that inplace of s400 , we should concentrate on barak8.
Hell please.
Do you know how S400 came up ? It was a regular IAF and Russian AF joint ops. Now know what India Russia joint exercises are, its not Indian Air force flying IAF aircrafts in Russia or vice versa. Its the visiting team exercising with the host by using the hosts equipment. It's like this how much of Russian hardware is sold to us.
Our team after flying the Russian upgrades of older Su27s and Mig31s were given access to Su35 and S400 in a bid to showcase the capabilities of both to seek sales. While the Su35 did impress, it was not worth purchase after the Su30MKI , but the S400 gave a shock.
After operating the Older S200 and S300VMs, which had issues, the capability of S400 was very very big to simply say no.
Then started a period of 5-6 years when Russia allowed exclusive simulated testings to an Indian team in addition to access to being a part of testing and deployments of the system in eastern Russia.
The people who selected S400, were no idiots. They did so after evaluating what French and Israel had on tables to be offered.
PDV/PAD/AAD, S400, A 200 km SAM under development , B8 and its ER version along with Akash and Spyder are to defend our skies.May be David's Sling derivative too, but no work force dedicated for it now.
Any rethinking means a billion lives in danger.
For those claiming F16s of PAF has an upper hand on MKI in case of EW. Know that there's something known as EL/L8222, EL/L8251 and ELT/568...