Sure, but that doesn’t mean making indigenous missiles is a bad thing… Some recent events in geopolitics (I won’t specify but surely you know what I mean) showed that allies can’t always be trusted forever, so technological independence is key on something as sensitive as military power
They kind of have to use their own stuff
The NATO isn’t happy with India’s choice to buy Russian equipment and there is a realistic chance of them no longer being able to procure European weapons at some point
Its not money waste it helps building autonomy without sole dependence
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There a big difference of making feom ground zero project and russian being the angel to give them 90% of the techs like they are doing with su57
Relying on imports stops a nation from being a military power, geostrategically it’s disastrous
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Algeria is the best exemple. Not a single local made project and its still top 2 African military power
It’s not hard to be a top military power in Africa to be completely honest lol
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Technology transfer is indeed a very good way of progressing, but MBDA would not let that happen and long range Russian missiles are not very notorious for being good
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it’s still in negotiations and not finalized.
Well its like top 20 world wide ( 26 last time i checked)
They did with mig29 and su30mki and will do it with su57
Half of india made weapons have russia in their genes
Update, we are apparentally planning on acquiring 4 Airbus A330 MRTT’s. Eurofighter acquirement seems to be more possible
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Sure thing, but if the supplier (Russia for Algeria for example) wants to pressure the buyer (Algeria) then the buyer has no resources for a real-life, long lasting conflict. Dependence means the buyer must do what the provider wants all the time
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At that time yes, but looking now india should really start reconsider its choice.
Like cmon they made a huge mistake with tejas. Instead of putting the tejas priorities for naval no they decided only for land.
Knowing that their carrier are heavy and need lighter plane than mig29k
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The Tejas was a money sink tbh, and it was not really promising on a naval matter as it was really heavy and underpowered
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That doesn’t block it from using its wepaons. Its not like the kill switch on the f35.
At war yes maybe after some months supply start get low but thats also be on investment problem.
Why buy 2000 bomb when you can 6000 for longer storage
Half of the airforce. They could have bought 30 su34 who can do the work of all mig23 and jaguar and tajas.
Why buy stuff from other nations when you can build it yourself
That’s what India wants to achieve and even a failed project helps getting closer to that goal
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Yeah, that’s basically India’s play trade some short term efficiency for long term independence. Even failed prototypes still give you engineers, tooling and tech you can reuse on the next jet.
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