FURTHERMORE we can obiviously muster them to offer full tech transfer whereas the US will never do so for us atleast in the near future.U r right that we can furter enhance the A.C capability with ISRAELI stuffs...MOREOVER the a.c offered by U.S is itself going to b replaced in near future meaning no further upgrades,wheras we r planing an A.C for atleast forty years,wheras though the russians r not intrested in MIG-35 but,our MCA programme is most likekly going to sought the assistence of the MIG ,as feported in many russian media.FURTERMORE many even dought the BVR capabilities of the russias but remind u there is a all bunch of armaments being developed for the 5TH gen platforms including stealth enabelled BVRs.
If the requirment is to get an aircraft which is ready and proven and don't causes any delays in production, which would shrink squad numbers even more, there is nearly no other option than F18SH. Instead of most of the other aircrafts in the competition it comes with completely ready and proven airframe and system. Mig 35 is only a prototype now, even if most of it are only just upg to Mig 29, you can bet that it will face delays!
The point of further upgrades is also not correct, US will keep F18SH in navy for quiet a long time, cause they can't replace them and all F15,16, Harrier, A10 at the same time and those F18SH are the newest of them. In fact F18SH Growler production just started this year and Boeing is already in development of the block 3 upg (likely with CFTs and internal weapon bay of F15SE).
Whereas Russia will not buy Mig 35 and not even upg their current Mig 29 fleet. They will replace them with Pak Fa, that's why they are pushing that project so bad now. So if we buy Mig 35, we will be the only operator and upgrades will be payed by us only and will costly for sure!
You are right that there will be new gen weapons for FGFA, but you forget that we will still have SU 30 MKI, that can carry more load and more different weapons. It will be far more likely that they will use those weapons, than Mig 29, or 35.
The only disadvantage that the F18SH has are less ToT, restrictions from US gov and that they are close to MKI in performance (weight, range, payload, radar range), we might get full ToT of Mig 35, but will it be a benefit?
Even you said that the Mig 35 AESA is not mature, the engine is the same RD 33 that HAL already produce in licence, with some slighty improvements of thrust and 3D TVC. We already use a better OLS and produce a TVC engine of Su 30 MKI, so these techs won't give us much.
Instead of buying Mig 35 for over $50 million each, we should just upg our older Mig 29 with Zhuk AESA, instead of Zhuk PESA, add the TVC nozzle and the slight improvements of to the engine that HAL produce and get the new OLS if needed. This would make our Mig 29 nearly as capable as new Mig 35, but less costly!
MMRCA must go to any fighter that gives us more new capabilities, or techs and Mig 35 can't offer that.