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It is ok friend no worries, when you had to buy our casspirs for Kashmir, given you had enormous resources of Tata says it all. Contacts or no contacts, did YOU work in this field for 15+years as an specialist R&D engineer on comms/EW hand in hand with Elta/Saab? Then please come and present your welcome thoughts vs tea room contact hear say that Indian people love to chatter.
For the French, one word sums it up nicely. Corruption. They are masters as buying. We know French for centuries in our continent and their tactics; they will sell water as cure for cancer and said it has been passed by Napoleon - pardon my pun.
We tested it. Whoever sells you whatever saying whatever, you field test the stuff and see the truth for yourself.
I agree with French sales tactics, but there's a reason why even the Brazilians and Swiss air forces wanted Rafale and got stuck with Gripen instead. They have a lot of stuff that's actually top notch, with no global equivalents. We saw them in Australia with the Barracuda win also.
In India, we like the French in the sense that once a contract is signed, they stick to it.
But it's okay, even Gripen is good. I have in fact argued that it's superior to the Rafale F3R with some French members when it comes to air to air because of the new GaN radar and Meteor combo they offered us. I am a fan of both aircraft and don't want to simply criticise either aircraft without being objective. The differences will be marginal anyway. But the problem is what's available in the lab sometimes never becomes operational, which is a big problem for small countries like Sweden and Israel.
We were close to seeing Saab's new GaN radar and EW suite on the LCA. Too bad they withdrew. The biggest problem will be if Saab decides to sell their aircraft to the PAF.
It is fine, every one to gloat on their own - It is funny - do you know your Navy's installations in the Andaman islands are using my hf designed antennas for the past 8 years.
Sure, we operate some of the newest and oldest stuff. We have a pretty big military so it takes decades to replace stuff.
this amount of gloating on vintage mig21 is not done by any sane person..one exception is if someone is high or drunk..see them all the time in ED
As I said, you don't know anything about our Mig-21s. It's even received a lot of praise from USAF and French pilots.