No sir, THANDA was coming in Bahrain show, the moment they came to know LCA team decided to participate in bahrain show they backed out to avoid embarrassment. That truth you believe or not.
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Because they do not want it to compete it with Tejas. For India Tejas is not even 2nd line striker not even 3rd . It come after they got through Sukhoi 30 MKI then MIG 29 then Mirrage 2000 and Rafale after induction. For Pakistan JF-17 is like whole of Pakistan air force (literally).
They are not ready to take risk.If it proved inferior to Hal Tejas which is 4th line fighter plane of India and is formed very very little portion of Indian air force, not only it will lose the potential market(which is very small) ,but also a big blow to Pakistani security and mindset of common people.
So the answer is yes. Tejas is the reason they did not participate in that airshow."
http://www.defencenews.in/article/B...s-to-Bahrain-and-compete-with-Indias-LCA-2218