1965 war was totally different situation , u had F-104 which was better than anything IAF had that time , but we did shoot down lots of saber jets by folland gant , that is why called " saber slayer "
in 1975 however things changed we had Mig 21 flying which was way better than the F-104 , hens...
yankees are not offering full 100% TOT
Raytheon, the U.S. company that manufactures radars for the F-18 fighter, has already said it would only transfer limited technology up to the level the U.S. government allows us.
This means Americas European competitors in the MMRCA tender will...
chinese people are damm proud of their technology ,their R&D program ,should be replaced by C&P , copy and paste .and they critise us for our indeginious program
whole chinnese air force is based on copied desgins from russia , so sad , couldnt develop aircraft on their own so why not copy ,
they are reducing the weight of brahmos to around 2 tons and samaller size ...alspo hwy two years for fitting brahmos is because they have to extensive test ...like multiple fire test ...avionis...does the radar and fire system is compatible with brahmos
i would like to answer to your russian combat aircraft being inferior than the american ....well for first if u must know the reason why USA started its ATA project ( advance tactical aircraft ) was because they found that the soviet russian combat aircraft such Mig 29 and Su-27 legacy fighter...
as you said that r-77 is better than ammram 120 d ....and combat record is not suffecient proof that ammram is better BVR missile plus avaionics onboard of su 35 are sufficent enough to use the full potential of the r-77 ...plus new r-77 version is also coming up