If things turn south with the PAKFA deal, than India has the option of waiting in line for F-35.
Otherwise, you can get the Chinese stealth fighter as these are only options for you. LOL.
This info is a couple of years old. But it explain Indian obsession quite well.
India's China obsession
The People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s house organ, had only 24 articles mentioning India on its English-language Web site in the first seven months of this year, according to the...
Its clear that India is not capable of creating a transport even at the class of C-130. Forget about the global master type of plane. What India can do is ask for US, Boeing, to Subcontract the global master assembly line to HAL.
India can wait in line for F-35.... It can have a fifth...
Won't their own media report it. This shows how much Indians are obsess with China... If Chinese government express any opinion on India, their media won't even report it as it's not news worthy to them. Indian media is just China obsessed.
Nope. It's well known that Indians, especially the ones in the west, really hate China. As China has more attention from the west, Indians here are just jealous of the attention China is receiving...
In fact, the west is starting to see China as an emergent threat. Indians are waving their...
A lot of "ifs" there. If India is not getting TOT on PAKFA but gets TOT on Rafael, I see India downgrade AMCA to a none stealth 4.5 gen configuration and India should be able to roll out such a prototype by 2030 and be in the same level of advancement as LCA after 2040s.
India need to be more...