There used to be several fools wasting their time and youths, arguing and arguing and arguing and ARGUING, back & forth and back & forth for a freaking MORE than half a decade! They were warned to not waste their time on this shit and get on with their lives, but they were so stupid not to see the writing on the wall.
This whole shit can be summed up as IAF's love for western jets and Govt's unwillingness to foot the humongous bill...right from
1# The MiG-29 vs Mirage-2000 saga in the 80's to
2# Su-30 vs Mirage-2000 saga in the 90's to
3# Mirage-2000 saga in the 00's to
4# MMRCA saga in LATE 00's to
5# The current 36 fighter shit deal
Instead of seeing the pattern of the obvious, they swallowed the IAF's nonsense that it needs a medium weight fighter as if it is taking part in some Olympics weight categories. All IAF needs is western fighters without strings because they are too incompetent to fly Russian jets properly and get the max out of its capabilities without crashing it regularly. They regularly invent excuses to get french fighters, when back in the day it was soviet union's disintegration while today its weight categories.
I hope with the death of the MMRCA deal, those fools I mentioned at first have made the world a favor and jumped off a cliff. Lots of saved oxygen if they did!