But , how would you pay for it ?
Honestly speaking , I may be seeing the same post in different wordings for over a year now . Possibly , if the country is intending to buy something , it may have a way of paying for it , common sense dictates .
Sell drugs.. east. Highly refined , pure Heroin in trade for cash and Heroines(although those usually come for free anyway ).
A better way and legal way to raise the capital is to justify them via CSF or FMF for terrorism, or by reducing corrupt practices in the military such as the pointless purchase of luxury vehicles, huge official residences, commissions.. etc.
Russia has a wider sale with China and frankly the engine was technically going into a Chinese plane, the engines were also going to the chinese - so we couldn't do anything about it.
As I said in my post - "wouldn't have flown at the point of time" - the chinese didn't have an engine then.
The Russians knew then that it was joint project.. its been in the loop since the 90's for christ's sake!
The deal came because the Chinese pay more to the Russians than they care for the Indians protests for.. rather diddly squat.
The Su-27 series in China still sticks to the AL-31.. the J-10 uses it.. and many other items. India protesting on RD-93s fell on deaf ears.