sirjee, I think f-16 has a bigger secondary market than RD-93, correct me If I m wrong.
sirjee, as I told you we are specifically talking about war time scenario, do you believe that Russia will sale engines of few millions dollar and hamper the potential sale of billions of dollars ?
US case is totally different, US was not selling us initially it was all pakistan was buying with lot of strings... but this strings are not attached to us. we are giving them hard cash to buy expensive toys, their frustrations during MCRA was a tight slap.
Russia will 'ABSOLUTELY' supply parts to China. It doesn't matter conflict or not. You have to see the world politics, the world is not about India and nor did the first plane with humans landed in India as much as my Indian friends like to believe that.
In the highest ranks within the US, what do you think they think of India? A little less than China. If you read Defense Sec Robert's Gate's and Panetta's assessment (available on Google from last year), he called China and India a threat to the US. It is actually true. The lobbies made him sort of retract his statements but it is pretty obvious. However, they are choosing India as a hedge against the Chinese and thus the "strategic partner" slogan, plus the lobby.
Think about it, once the 5th Gen PAKFA and other projects are done and India has the technology etc, what will Russia get out of you in the future? Nothing. So, in many ways, you'll make the Russia military complex suffer. Similarly, Americans are willing to sell you everything as the corporate leaders have nothing but greed. They are short term goal oriented and they care about their bonuses vs. what's right and add $$$$ from the Indian lobby to it and there you go. So after say US sells you F 35 and technology and other important toys, what do they have to get out of India 10 years from that point? NOTHING!!!
In fact, they've given crap load of money to India and their $$$$ are making India a regional power. It won't be more than ten years or so when US will be tasting its own medicine, i.e when India will look them into their eyes and will tell them to go F$$$$ themselves on certain issues....SO, conclusion is, none of these guys are stupid, they've ruled the world as the ONLY superpower since WWII (more time than India's existence) so they know the game better than anyone else!!!
India just happens to be the best bet against the Chinese. Now if both US and Russia knew that after 10 years, the billions of military contracts will fade away and they'll then also have another player competing with their products, what will they do??? Find OTHER markets....i.e Pakistan. The US will ALWAYS sell to Pak (may not be top of the class) but enough to irk India and then force India to buy the next best thing. Similarly, Russia would want another customer, right now through China and later DIRECT when Indian $$$$ start to fade away. Welcome to world politics my friend
. Remember, Pak is the SIXTH largest population in the world a to-be emerging market like India. The time for sky rocket growth is a matter of WHEN, not IF and NO COUNTRY will neglect that. Right now you'll see semi-cold relations due to Pakistan's leadership's mistakes who didn't know how to run the country and align themselves with US and Russia properly
..from then on ..the idea of Mutually assured destruction kept it from being used. the same may apply to us... for years the US built bombers upon bombers to counter what it presumed was a massive soviet bomber threat.. not knowing that soviets had been secretly moving on to missiles as their primary delivery system.. what makes you think its any different here?
