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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Simple stuff ? Sure 100%
Compplex stuff that require billions and starting for 0 ? No and waste of money
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That logic only works if you think of jets like consumer goods. Complex projects are exactly where the payoff is you spend billions once and get engineers, tooling, supply chains and tech you can reuse for decades. If you never “start from 0” on complex stuff, you stay permanently dependent and keep wiring those billions to someone else’s industry instead of your own.
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You literally cannot become independent without sinking huge amounts of money into R&D
R&D can lead to failures, but you need that experience to be able to build better equipment that can help you becoming independent
Thats exactly what india and russia are doing. But no instead of keeping it up.
They decided to go 100% all india which lead to many delays.
Like even the engines, they were so angry when jf17 started using russia engines that they destroyed multi billion corporations just a simple engine
You seem to underestimate the importance and difficulty of just building and maintaining a community of skilled engineers… One of the reasons why the Rafale was developped so slowly and got all of its capabilities so gradually is that the French wanted to keep their engineers working rather than making them work a lot for a bit and then have nothing to do. Spending money on an unnecessary project is better than have no project to work on at all
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At this rate, we may get the trailer, stream and server next week! Makes sense, if the update is to release mid-March.
Can’t wait for the “guess list”!
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Yall shall not pass, i got a Japanese WWII tank Dovbleg