And here I was thinking that even our
Rajput Class Destroyer,
Brahmaputra Class Frigate and
Abhay class will be more then enough to counter yours
4 F22p which don't have proper Air defence system and rest of the 5 "Babbar Era" Frigates..which also don'have proper ADS...
Forget about new member the way things are going their will be no BR in BRICS...
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Infact Money is the only problem here why do you France with economy of 3 Trillion Dollars,Defence Budget of more then 50 Billion Dollars and with army of around 1 lakh soilders reduced their order of rafale from 286 Rafale to only 180....
Do you think PLAAF's J 10 ,PAF JF 17,Swedish Gripen or Europe Eurofighter was ready when they inducted them into their airforce ANSWER NO...You need to give time to the platform to get mature...
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German...
All thanks to Antony,Red Tape and IAF love for Phoran Maal otherwise IAF would have got 2 to 3 squadron of LCA Tejas in its Kitty by now..When you can buy Mig 29 and Miraage 2000 in its initial stage then why can't you do that with LCA Tejas too...
A} That is the same reason why Russia is not procuring Brahmos as Brahmos range is ristricted to 300 Km...Reason MTCR Guideline
B}Ya it will look stupid to you as you don't have any answer for that...
C} Forget about 2nd Gen Jet we are already producing Su 30Mki which is 4th Gen Jet...Not...
That's what i was saying about Jf17 that Jf17 is degraded and that's the reason why PLAAF is not willing to accept JF17...
And as faar as your other statement is concern then you need to understand the difference between Buisness and Charity...
And we will like to pay the price that we are paying for Russian equipment then the way you get free parts from US of A and to some extent from China{Soft Loan} because in both the cases your country men are putting your National Honour on Stake...
A}Do you know the exact price of new Rafale?
B}Do you know the whole detail about Mirage upgrade deal ?
C}Do you know price of ToT for upgrade?
D} Do you know wether that deal also include large stock of Mirage spare Parts or not?
If you know all this then talk about Mirage upgrade...
But that doesn't make it less capable then F-16..
Secondly, IAF Pilot also have alot of experience with F-16...
Thirdly, the total number of these platform in IaF only is around 120 and on the other hand PAF operate 77 F-16....at the end number does make a difference....
Forthly,If IAF...
It looks like you forgot that your adversary is operating Mig 29 of Mig series,Mirage 2000 of Mirage series which are on Par with F 16....and in this case one step ahead of PAF F16 Blk15 Fleet as IAF has been upgrading its fighter fleet on regular intervals....
Why not you are most welcome just go for it,....And Believe me if you go with this then within 10 to 15 years fate of BDT and Bangladeshi Economy will be in our hand as we will be having stock of around 31200 Crore BDT in our hand.....With that stock of cash India at any time can increase...
If rafale deal becomes too expensive then it will be alot better for us to either go for Eurofighter or to increase the order of Tejas Mk2 as short term solution and wait for FGFA,AMCA and Aura...