It’s what Gaijin will do that is relevant. And it would be 90% copy/paste with maybe a few differences. Because they aren’t going to put a significant amount of time and money into modelling a full tree of new things for a market that has relatively low buying power in terms of international prices etc. They’re a business in the business of making money, and spending thousands modelling a full Indian tree just won’t make its money back.
Well the best Su 30 I highly doubt as well as the best Rafale version. In terms of air to air capability I highly doubt the MKI outperforms the SM2 version but I could be wrong. Not sure if the Indian Rafale is better than the French one in RL.
Vickers MBT was arguably a Indian co-op vehicle, Vijayanta being when they could domestically build it.
T90S was arguably an Indian co-op vehicle, the Russians then produced the S for domestic use after the Indian development program for it. (iirc the S is still not in the game for the Russians is it?)
Indian devleopment in cooperation with other nations is what peak performance looks like and is how many countries make things ;)
So weird how people seem to hold India to a different level on that vs say, the Tornado program, or Jaguar, or Eurofighter. Heck theres less aggro for Swedish Leopards xD
No chance. Pakistan is a CN subtree with how close they are historically. it’s basically the first party to recognize PRC before ROC. Plus they have been so close militarily that JF-17 is just a culmination of half a decade of relationship.